Which Subjects at school did you dread?

[TomLee475]

I would say

RE so dull
and Science - boring

PE - self explanatory.
French - we had this awful 'language lab' where we each sat in a little individual booth and read out loud, while the teacher listened to us one by one. You never knew when they'd be listening. Cringeworthily embarrassing as I was incredibly self-concious - I couldn't speak French for toffee and wanted the ground to open up and swallow me.

RE, PE, History, Latin and Biology for me.
I was rubbish at Latin, could never remember any dates in history, was very squeamish for Biology(although I remember finding genetics fascinating). was truly awful at PE as no coordination and I was lazy and RE I had very little interest in.

@Drogosnextwife I've never heard of that.
It only happens with numbers. Letters start dancing round the page if I'm tired and have looked at my work for too long, but numbers do it all the time.

I'll have a look into it. Thank you!

Most of them because I was badly bullied and dreaded to bullies. I never went to games I just used to register myself then go off site for the afternoon.

Most of my subjects except History, English and RE.

Found maths and science so painfully dull.

History. The teacher was changed several times, and it was rather boring as we were given a book to read from and were tested from it. Nothing practical or trips or anything to keep my interest.
Now I have dds of my own, we are forever in museums, castles, stately homes etc and I’m learning stuff I was never taught by these crap teachers. It’s rather interesting.

Music; I have zero musical ability and the teacher used to make us do these stupid 'recorder tests' every so often. God I hated them!

Also hated RE as even back then I thought it was all a load of total bollocks. It was a compulsory GCSE at my school though so I had to sit through 5 years of it! I got an A* so it wasn't that it was difficult, I just didn't believe any of it.

Art and needlework.Absolutely hated both.

PE - utter waste of time

Never met an academic class that I didn’t love though.

PE because we were made to have communial showers and Biology because we had to dissect pregnant rats which I found horrific.

PE and drama. Absolutely despised both. Didn't like music either.

I loved music and can read it because we taught how to at school. I also had clarinet lessons and piano lessons and sang in the choir. I will sometime do a Les Dawson at partys and embarrass my family My son can play the keyboard and electric guitar so he takes after me.

I miss Les Dawson he has my sense of humour lol

PE

English - letch of a teacher, who used to get off on looking at girls and teaching adjectives like, "busty" blonde.

Hymns - yep we had an actual lesson on learning and singing hymns

Needlework and Domestic Science, I can cook and I can sew but school made it so boring and by third year domestic science waas an entire afternoon.

@sashh

I am glad we were taught how to cook and sew because I find these useful. My daughter has 2 degrees and can't even sew a button on. I wish they would start teaching children these essential skills. I was also taught how to change a plug and how to ballroom dance which might come in handy one day if I go to a tea dance lol

French because I found it incredibly dull and could not get my head around it at all. Didn’t help that our French Mistress was a total knob and singled me out every lesson for being useless.

Also, Latin and Ancient Civilisations from Lower Fourth upwards as I got put in the top set (only female) with a man (I won’t call him in a teacher, because he was an arrogant, odious, sexist toad) who I understand had a deep hatred of the school being coeducational (I was in the second intake) and therefore decided to take it out on the pupils themselves rather than sodding leave! I loathed that man with ever fibre of my being and wanted to strangle him with his robes every time he made me study alone in the classroom next door if I wanted to take my jumper or blazer off in the sweltering temperatures that he insisted his classroom was kept at throughout the year! Apparently exposing myself (in a shirt and tie) was a disgusting act designed to distract the precious male minds destined to rule the world or some such nonsense. This was in the early 2000’s

Maths, physics and chemistry. I did Latin to get out of PE at secondary school.

I am glad we were taught how to cook and sew because I find these useful.

But I could already cook and sew before I went to high school. I knew how to use a sewing machine and follow a pattern, so weeks of doing cross stitch or wring about parch pockets wasn't teaching me anything.

The same with cooking, I could make a meal for 4, so making a batch of buns... well I'd made buns (supervised) age 6.

I did French and German and can just about order drinks and greet people. I can speak a little Spanish as well from going to spain for my hols.

Only p.e

@sashh

Me too .... I come from a large family of 7 and we all had to muck in to keep the family fed etc. I used to help my grandmother with cooking, cleaning and shopping. I can remember shelling peas when I was 3 years old.

I used to make my own clothes as well so watching the Sewing Bee on tv reminded me of my childhood when I would see some fabric and make myself an original piece of clothing. I don't bother now because I can buy stuff on line for half the price. Besides I am too busy doing other things now.

Just a few all due to disability. Now it makes me angry because the school could have at least tried to sort them out. I had a statement of SEN.

RE at middle school - fear of being hit by a cricket ball or board rubber that the teacher lobbed at anyone not paying attention- I would be, but couldn’t see to duck if he was chucking it at someone else. (Only 80s so not allowed.)

PE - netball, tennis, hockey just didn’t take my kit for three years, just stood and froze. Got to high school and they said do you want to swim and it was great.

Information studies - school/council talked about a one handed keyboard from when I was about 9. learning to touch type one handed, was just told to stretch, didn’t finish the exam at gcse as typing too slow. (not told extra time was even a possibility).

Mileysmiley

One of my relatives used to pick up her granddaughter from primary school.One day she was asked to pick up another little girl as well so she decided to make a cake with them.

The two six year olds then had a conversation about 'buying food' which went along the lines of:

child 1: we don't make cakes, we buy them
child 2: do you buy everything
child 1: yes
child 2: we can't afford to buy food so we just buy ingredients

The logic of 6 year olds. I don't think child 1 could have don much cooking with mum.