Which Subjects at school did you dread?

[TomLee475]

I would say

RE so dull
and Science - boring

Maths.

French.

I had appalling teachers for both in high school. Uninspiring. Impatient.

Maths and PE.

PE
Art

Couldn't see the point of either.

One school year I had both art and PE on a Friday afternoon 😢

P.E I was shit at just about all of it, can't run or throw properly, no hand eye coordination, being out in the cold and rain in a netball skirt and t-shirt, the showers afterwards
Physics it made no sense
Music I had no idea, I have no sense of rhythm, can't even clap in time to music, I did try, but in 3 years of high school music class I never learnt to read or write music or play it, we had end of year exams each year and I literally guessed the answers
Food tech the teacher was a scary witch

English literature.

I just didn't get it. I spent the whole 5 years at secondary school to the end of my GCSEs with the same teacher and not once were we taught how to construct an essay.

The whole thing was a process of trial and error on my part, trying to work out why my last essay had got a slightly higher mark than its predecessors. I'd then try and identify the snippets and techniques that might have given it that edge and use them in the next essay. And then being confounded when it got an even lower mark than anything before.

32 years later, I hate reading! Non-fiction I'm fine with but with with fiction, I'm just conditioned to think that I'm not understanding the subtleties of the writing that the authors are clearly protraying and that me reading it is just a massive waste of my time, and the authors'.

I remember a fellow pupil once asking our teacher why we had to learn English Literature. He said "So that we can appreciate fine literature."

Yeah, that worked well.

PE just dreadful
English on the most part - combination of teachers and just not my strongest subject
Psychology- just too wishy washy

Physics - just had an awful teacher

Music, my school only did "proper" music such as she would play a piece of music and we had to write it down. I'm tone deaf.

And art I really hated it, again no talent at all. Give me double maths or French any day.

PE.
Any of those pathetic personal development and mental health ones (they had a number of different guises).
Any subject that had a particularly thick teacher/class as happened occasionally.

Maths. Which is now coming back to bogey me as I need to pass a maths exam to get on to a training course in September and I can't bloody do it

PE - hated it and got into trouble for trying to miss lessons.
Maths - struggled to understand any of it, and found each lesson a nightmare.

@SeaSaltandLime, no problem. My ds and another little boy I know were given coloured overlays. Plastic sheets to put over white paper. You can get coloured glasses aswell. He has orange. Worth asking your doctor about.

PE for obvious reasons.
French - didn't mind the teacher we had in year 7, but the one we had every year after that.... I think my French knowledge actually went backwards. She was great for putting you on the spot and then highlighting just how awful your pronunciation was.
My form had to learn Russian as well. I was worse at that than French! Especially as the year 9 exam was in printed Cyrillic and we'd only been taught handwritten. I failed.

PE. Humiliating, too hot or cold, didn’t learn anything, stupid little PE skirt and matching pants.

A PE teacher who shouldn’t have been working with children; my brother’s PE teacher is probably out of prison now.

Art and cookery. Dropped them both before O level, thankfully. No artistic talent whatever, and had anxiety issues about having to do something practical like cookery with someone critically watching.
Enjoyed everything else, even PE in the summer when we played tennis. Hockey, in the raw winter cold, not so much! Did science A levels and went to medical school. Where I hated anatomy as I have no rote memory and prefer to learn by understanding principles.

Maths. My DH is a mechanical/civil/materials engineer so very maths orientated. I struggled to scrape a C at GCSE and can confirm I never use anything beyond basic maths.

I have a degree in English so English was always my strength plus history and drama. Hated pretty much everything else.

PE and maths were definitely my most hated subjects.

I dreaded English in year 8 because every other week we had a library lesson and I didnt have any friends in my class, so whichever table I sat at I would be told to piss off and then get bullied on the table I eventually had to sit it. That was a great year..

PE, Art and languages.

I was badly neglected and abused when I was growing up. I often had bruises on me so dreaded PE (as teachers and other students would see them). I was crap at art (my teacher humiliated me at parents' evening to my mother) and couldn't fathom languages.

I was good at maths and sciences so eventually only went to school on days that I had those subjects. I'd say that my attendance at school was about 40-50% as I went only 2/3 days a week. I pretty much self-taught my subjects for GCSE and A levels, and still passed everything (although not nearly so well as if I'd actually been able to go to school!)

Art. I was useless, and the teacher didn’t seem to actually teach anything, just wandered around the classroom in a bit of a daze!

Chemistry, it just never clicked for me, I never really understood anything. I was very strong in biology and physics though so managed to get an A* in science GCSE with my very limited understanding of chemistry..

Maths and Physics,.I was shit at both and found them tedious.

PE. I associate it with girls saying "oh GOD pigeon, you're so STUPID" for.. ooh, 10 years because I was crap at rounders.
Maths - liked the more theoretical stuff like algebra and statistical analysis but got really panicked with mental maths (still true TBH).

Loved history though, and PE got lots better when cross-country running became an option.

Art and PE

Maths hated it and physics

PE...Hated it!

Geography..so dull!

Textiles..I was a bit scared of the sewing machine

Typing - WTAF, I was forced into it as I wasn't allowed to do woodwork as a girl & fighting for a woodwork place got me one, but no bench space or tools to work with as I was deliberately left out as the teacher didn't want me there - TF those things have changed😏 I failed it on purpose as I was so peed off to be doing it at all.

P.E. I wasn't diagnosed with hEDS until my late 40s, after DDs diagnosis
, so this was hell for me, but had no apparent reason, so the nasty bitch of a teacher loved to take the pee out of the uncoordinated in class, especially girls who she thought were a threat to her attention seeking. Also because again, I wasn't allowed to play football outside of school, so no matches, even though I was really good at it & could run rings round all of the boys, because the 70s were vile for sexism