Which Subjects at school did you dread?

[TomLee475]

I would say

RE so dull
and Science - boring

Maths and PE.

PE because my eyesight was terrible and I couldn't see what was happening/the ball etc so missed hitting/catching it much to the mocking of my class. My parents refused to get my eyes tested as ”we’ve all got strong eyes in this family”

When I did get my eyes tested at 16 and surprisingly needed glasses, books on shelves had titles! I could recognize friends when they weren't within reach! I could see that the buses had numbers!

My bloody know-it-all mother!

PE - we had to play endless, endless games of basketball and I was terrible at it (I’m very short) plus our school was really strict about PE kits so I was really self conscious because I looked horrendous in them. It really pisses me off actually because I love sport now - running has genuinely changed my life and brought me so many benefits, and I didn’t start until my mid-twenties because I was so sure I’d hate it.

Also home ec and RE because the teachers were psychotic, they had no business being around children. Just really terrifying and cruel - one boy wet himself in second year at high school because the home ec teacher turned on him and he was petrified. The RE teacher used to whisper something so you had to come really close to hear it then he’d absolutely ROAR into your ear. Hideous, hideous people.

Apart from the core subjects I loved Home Economics. I used to be taken out of classes to help bake for governors meetings. I loved drama as well.

But I was 'forced' down the maths, English, history route by my parents & teachers. I wish I'd have stood up for myself more.

I hated home economics, because it was the same day as PE, and our PE lessons were held at a different school, as they had better facilities. We had to go straight to the other school in the morning, in our PE kit, and carry our uniform to change in to after. So, on the bus I had to carry my school bag, PE kit and home etc food ingredients. It was a struggle!

PE was a triple lesson, and there was no where to keep the food other than a hot, sweaty locker room. By the time we got back to school more often than not the ingredients were squashed, warm and, in the case of fish week, inedible.

We still had to cook the dish though, what a waste of money!

Maths. Always.

Physics
Needlework
Cookery

On occasion, PE.

On occasion, Maths

Home Economics. The teacher hated me and loved humiliated me. I was ''sick'' every Tuesday (HE day) which had a knock on effect on my other class I had.

French

PE was a nightmare for other reasons too. I was diagnosed at 18 (when I went to uni) with severe hypermobility in my knees, hips and shoulders. Mother didn't care that my joints continually hurt (dismissed them as "growing pains") and wouldn't excuse me for PE.

If I was in school to do PE I'd try to be excused and they didn't believe that I was in near constant pain, and running made my knees dislocate.

One fateful session I'd try again to explain that I didn't want to do PE and the teacher shouted at me across the changing room, in front of the whole year group, "ARE YOU TAKING THE FUCKING PISS?" Much laughing from the other students.

I've since had both my knees screwed together and hate all forms of physical exercise.

Art - boring, waste of time and I didn't have the patience for it
Music - see above
German - dreadful teacher
English - begged my dad to let me stop going to class after we'd covered enough items for the exam. Didn't see the point in writing anymore about the symbolism in Sunset fucking Song but he didn't agree.

Unlike most posters I loved maths, physics, chemistry, history and PE!

PE because of the naked showing while the teacher watched and computer studies because the teacher was on a power trip, he used to love singling people out, making them stand up if they got a question wrong and humiliate them by getting the classmates to laugh at the wrong answer.

PE: I hated it with a passion. I liked swimming until they changed it to water aerobics. I hated hockey as the other girls used to just hit me on the shins with their sticks. Any game where we had to play in teams - the popular girls always got to pick and I was always last and then the others in the team I was in made an audible "urgh" noise because they were forced to work with me.

Physics: we had a crap teacher who would just dictate notes to us for the whole lesson and never helped us understand anything. The "simple equations" that could explain everything were like some alien code with letters and numbers added in for extra confusion.

Chemistry was the only one I actively dreaded. I was rubbish at it although I managed to scrape through with a C grade at GCSE!

Oh I did typing, or “secretarial studies” as it was then to O grade. I was always in line for straight A’s but my mum wanted me to pick one “less stressful” subject than the others. It was crap but I did at least learn how to type properly which has been useful, the amount of people who have to type but can’t actually type properly is ridiculous. I think they should teach it across the board in school these days. Just regular/touch typing. Audio typing not quite so much!

My son started high school last year and so much has changed in every subject since I was at school - except HE. Same shite it always was with same crap cookers etc. I don’t know why they bother pretending this crap is a proper subject.

This will be outing if anyone else went to my school as I can’t imagine many other schools made s5 kids ie in their higher year do “cultural awareness” ie wandering round art galleries and putting on plays when we could have been studying

Maths and PE. Both were humiliating.

Maths and PE.

I was pitiful at art too, but the teacher was a dude so lessons were still fun.

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