What did you dislike about school?

[Shandan35]

I would say PE

@TheMandalorian

I liked PE. Didn't enjoy German. The teacher was incomprehensible and taught using humiliation techniques. I mostly liked school being a reasonably bright academically minded who didn't need to try very hard. But I did need things explaining to me first. I can't learn German by a teacher speaking German at me and not translating it. There was one girl who in hindsight tried to be a bully to me but a lot of it was water off a ducks back.

I detested my German teacher, after I got 15% in my mock 'O' level she suggested that I dropped the subject and 'concentrate on your weaker areas'. I said I wanted to continue with it and I got the equivalent of a B, or whatever that is in today's money, she never congratulated me when I returned for the 6th Form, not German of course. Years later we were due to go and live in Germany for OH's work and went out with my brother, his wife and some friends of their's. The conversation got round to speaking German and I said that I had been taught German by an absolute b** but I had remembered a lot of it. The group laughed and the other man said Yes, that a pretty good description of Auntie Anne!

Art. I was completely useless at it and would have been bottom of any class. No aptitude, no interest, no motivation.

PE. The absolute unmitigated horror of school PE lessons put me off sport and exercise for decades. Sadistic teachers making you run around in freezing cold mud wearing next to nothing before demanding you shower naked with zero privacy or dignity in front of your peers. It was nothing less than child abuse.

We had to walk home in full uniform including a hat. We would get into trouble if seen out of school without our hat or with our hands in our coats pockets. Of course, that made us a target for the secondary modern kids who would snatch our hats and throw them over a wall. I was also spat at by them although things improved when that school went comprehensive. My school stayed a Grammar for the rest of my time there. The system was very divisive.

PE, Maths and bullies

Jekyll and Hyde

PE

Swimming. Detention! Loved everything else. Loved boarding.

The skewed 1980s GCSE history syllabus, wall-to-wall Nazis and very little else. Whole centuries airbrushed out.

My German teacher, so boring I gave up A level rather than listen to him for 2 years.

The snobbishness, the cliques in 6th form, the pointlessness of lacrosse, the getting bullied at bus stops because of the uniform, I could go on but won't.

Physics

Oh, and also - I forgot! At one of my primary schools we girls had to do needlework (remember those squares of cloth with pre-made holes in them?) when the boys were allowed to do drawing. Ugh...

I hated the inefficiency of it all, so much time wasted in assembly and form time.

I also hated the toilets - smelly, damp, dank places. I must have used them three times in 11 years.

I was gonna say "some of the pupils" but realised most of the comments were subjects, so yes, PE. Haha

PE particularly.
Just being there generally when the world outside of school was more interesting.

being spat on at break time. having my hat pinched off the top of my head and thrown around. being called names.

PE and Maths and always changing schools.I went to six schools in 13 years .

Stupid uniform rules that were, and still are, utterly pointless. Eg you can't have two sets of earrings, you can't wear comfortable shoes.

I enjoyed PE, but was never In with the PE teachers, which hurt my feelings.

Chemistry always seemed to be chalk and talk and so boring, even at A level.

The bitchy girls

Pointless classes - for me this was food tech, they 'taught' us to 'cook' cheese on toast, salad, biscuit. I remember the teacher being such a smug nasty lady.

French
The bitchy girls

The ridiculous streaming process that meant even when I scored 100% in my GCSE I couldn't get an A in math and really struggled with a level math as a result.

The bitchy girls.

The bullies. They made my life a misery for 7 years......

Milk, PE and mashed potato every bloody lunchtime

Also disliked PE. Was quite happy with Games though.

PE and Math. Physics.
All the bullying and bitchiness if you weren’t sporty or athletic/didn’t have older siblings.
The Drama teacher who couldn’t spot talent and just picked her favourites (I receive various accolades for performance even now).
RE - my grandma had passed the day before, I walked into school to be told I had an RE assembly, all about heaven and what happens after you die. The utter psychopath vicar forced me into the front of the assembly, after being TOLD I was feeling sensitive about it, and went on to grill me for over half an hour about where I thought my Grandma had gone, why would she be worthy of heaven, told me she would be in hell with the “sinners” when I said that we were atheist and scared the ever living shit out of 11 year old me that my beloved Grandma was being burned alive over and over again.
I LOATHED RE from that point onwards and my parents actually wrote me a letter excusing me from the assemblies.

English because of the God awful boring 'literature' we were subjected to.

And the world's most boring monotone teacher.

@Haggertyjane

Are you me?? I'm exactly the same; PE, maths and bullies.

Pe

A reward system that rewarded you if you did excellent work or improved something or put in effort when you didn't previously. However it completely ignored you if you always did your best and consistently achieved good work.

The end of term. I loved school, and got school-sick (opposite of homesick) in the holidays.