What did you dislike about school?

[Shandan35]

I would say PE

I was going to say the permanent exhaustion. Bullying and/or crap teachers. Freezing classrooms. Rules for the sake of rules. Homework.

The bullies and maths. Not sure what I hated the most!

Very strict Catholic school.

Absolutely everything apart from my year 11 English teacher, the library and the very kind librarian who let me spend my lunch times reading in there instead of utterly miserable in the rain outside.

I wouldn't even have gone back to that place for my gcse results but I was dragged back to pick them up. I wouldn't wish that place on my worst enemy.

It also put me off religion for life. Good Christian peace and love it damn well was not.

All of it apart from history and English.
Then doing all that homework. Awful.

Some aspects of PE - communal showers! Running around in freezing cold

Also bullies, IT lessons, English Lirerature and Physics

Bitchy girls and cross country.

Boarding and sport

I liked it all apart from music, registration, drama and assemblies

Everything

Having to read books slowly. I would finish the book and then have to re read it, must have driven a lot of kids mad.
Pe, i was crap at it, teachers getting the bullies to pick teams, great.

the boredom and being told what to do.

A lot of the kids there,
The teachers on a power trip (Very traditional school),
Maths, physics and french. I have a type of dyslexia which was undiagnosed until I was at university, which means I struggle with short-term memory and putting together and remembering technical unfamiliar concepts. This made those subjects absolute hell for me.
The awful food, and not being allowed to bring a packed lunch,
Not being allowed water.

How to socialise

Had horrific social anxiety

Was bullied and ostracised lots

Deeply impacted my childhood

How does the vote work on this?

Loved most of it, especially A levels when I'd dropped everything else and did what I loved and was good at, but another hater of Maths and bloody needlework. They had us make this horrific tabard in maroon denim that I'd never have been seen dead in at the best of times. It took me a whole term to hem up one side of it and the thing got more and more manky at the bottom of my school bag getting crushed and stained with ink and worse as the term progressed.

PE. Got a partial exemption certificate when I was 11 (I admit, the reason was really not an important one), I was the happiest kid when they told me I didn't have to do 80% of the compulsory sports.

My daughter refuses to believe my stories of communal showers at school.

In a way even I can't believe it was allowed

Showers after PE so I hated PE from secondary school. Didn't like other kids much or drama.

The feeling that I was lesser than the other children because I came from a single parent family and we couldn’t afford school uniform so I looked different. The dinner ladies especially did not keep their judgement under wraps. (My dad brought me and my sister up single handedly) and we have thrived and proved everyone of them wrong but it was a tangible judgement to grow up with.

pe , maths , petty rules , apathetic teachers - not all but quite a lot , quite a long way from home , miserable building ,uniform , homework .
i had laughs and friends but hated it , still glad now after more than 30 years that i never have to go again .

School as a whole.
I'm always amazed when I hear that kids like school. I hated every single day of school, except that day in year 10, was the last school day of the year and we had chips at lunch.

Having to study Shakespeare.

His plays were written to be performed on stage by professional actors who can bring the characters, stories & language to life, NOT studied in a classroom, which sucks all the enjoyment out of them, and turns them into dry, boring incomprehensible texts. It’s no wonder most kids are put off Shakespeare for life.

Teachers smacking children in infant school (1960s) - I still remember feeling so awful for one little boy who'd been made to stand in the corner, then stood on a chair while the teacher rolled up tbe leg of his shorts and then slapped his thigh 2 or 3 times, leaving red marks. This was a reception class 😢.
PE teachers in secondary school - always total bitches who were only interested in the sporty/talented kids.

@LyndaSnellsSniff. Oh the torture of playing hockey in sub zero temperatures in a wraparound skirt and t shirt. Or breaking the ice in the outdoor pool. Or running naked through those bastard showers.