What did you dislike about school?

[Shandan35]

I would say PE

School was okay.

What bewilders me is now, on school alumni forums and when we've had reunions, everyone else seems to talk about how teachers influenced them, helped path the way for their career paths, created their love of something and what life lessons they learned in school. I cannot think of any aspect of school that has shaped me.

The other kids.

Trying to fit in and finding my place in the world. School is a horrible place for that and bullies target you. Struggled with that for years.
Lessons wise. I loved maths. Had the most amazing teacher. And I wasn’t overly good at it or anything. Just average. But I really enjoyed it. Liked PE too apart from hocky - oh the mere thought of standing in field in the British Ivey winter with a little skirt and polo top holding onto a freezing stick makes me chill. Couldn’t feel my hands they were so cold and god forbid anyone bashed into to when you felt like an ice block ...
Oh and tracing paper as loo roll .....

Bully teachers and their use of favourites. Sadly very little changes - there is always one.

Getting up every day to do the same thing every day. Being so tired.

PE. Bullies.

@DimplesToadfoot
I’m so sorry, that’s horrific. .

Maths
The bullying

Being bullied by teachers who were too thick and arrogant to realise I was autistic and dyslexic.
Teenagers, popularity contests, peer pressure.

PE, without a doubt. Had panic attacks almost every time. Like PP mentioned in year 11 we could choose our own sports which was massively helpful but the damage had already been done! Agree re the teachers, mine were mostly OK w it, but I couldn’t stand it. Absolute hell.

My biology teacher was horrible. He was a fucking bully who made everyone cry, even the seemingly tough boys. Was a racist arsehole, couldn’t stand the man and wish I had stepped up about it instead of cowering and keeping quiet. Some of the other teachers were scared of him too.

The ridiculous hours—had to wake up at six in the morning which I hated.

Other teenagers. I just don’t get on with other teens tbh! Too much drama and whatnot which I couldn’t be bothered with. There were some that I got on well with but most of the time I just couldn’t stand everyone! Besides, all of them were fake, chatted shit about one another behind their backs.

Everything definitely not "the happiest days" of my life

Actually, probably not being entirely fair, would have been bearable if not for the pupils

PE and the other kids mostly

PE.

For the first two terms each school year all we did was lacrosse twice a week for five years. It was supposed to be two weeks of lacrosse then one week of netball but they decided that netball was exclusively for the netball team so I only ever got to play lacrosse. I spent five years trying to avoid getting hit in the face with a stick while wearing a tiny skirt and giant purple knickers with go faster stripes down the side (completely ironic given how slow I run). The skirt was one size fits all so by year 11 the giant pants were permanently on display.

I got to do different sports in the summer though for some reason the teachers thought that ideal sportswear was nothing but a thin aertex t-shirt and the giant pants without even an inadequate skirt to cover them. So basically I had to play sports in hideous underwear. Athletics was the only time we mixed with boys in PE and the girls had to do it wearing pants while the boys got to wear sensible sportswear.

To add to the joy the school field was 5/10 minutes walk down public streets. Which we schoolgirls did practically naked.

Also fun was the PE teachers insisting we strip naked for communal showers in front of all our peers while they watched. The teachers also kept humiliating logs of our periods so they could tell if we were trying to skive or lie our way out of the naked parade to and through the line of showers we had to walk through before walking back to the towels and hunting for our own. Did I mention naked?

Hated PE.
Hated the smell of the canteen.
Hated sports day.

Art, Drama, Music and PE. I preferred sitting down with my nose in a book. You might think I would be an easy child to teach as I loved learning but the Drama and Art teachers hated me as I underachieved in their lessons, put no effort in whilst excelling in other lessons. The Art teacher yelled at me once you.mske me look bad because you do well in everything else. I did point out not true poor at Drama, Music and PE too. I did not choose those courses as options do got to drop when in Year 10.

@hansgruebar was she called Mrs Tipney? If so I had her in primary school, out in playground through winter in vest and knickers while she blew whistle in her warm fut coat and hat.

Bullying and the teachers who did fuck all about it.

School days were torture for years.

PE

The wasted time. I experienced the boredom as physical pain. I just felt I could have learned so much faster in a different environment. I used to fake illness so I could stay home alone all day reading. As a teen, my sister used to skip school in order to go off to museums. I do think our time was better spent that way than in school.

Loved university. The difference was like night and day.

In high school, the warped social relationships which developed in that environment. People say, "Kids can be mean" or "Teenaged girls are like that" but IME bullying and general nastiness tend to be much less in other places where kids spend time: home, the neighbourhood, sports clubs.

I think it was the result of carrying out all your relationships under a public spotlight and being stuck with the same group all the time. I didn't actively bully anyone, but I ignored the unpopular kids and didn't stick up for them, because I knew I too would be targeted if I associated with them.

I wasn't particularly bullied myself, but I was always looking over my shoulder trying to guess how to behave in order to survive socially. I couldn't relax or be myself.

It all changed overnight when I left school. The relief was immense. My confidence soared.

The teachers and the other kids mainly. Everything else was ok.

All of it

Primary was fine, village school.

Secondary was honestly like something out of Lord of the Flies in Dickenisan Lancashire

One of my PE teachers was a bit shouty but actually OK - I have found out later that she managed a national sports team

Other than that we had speech training lessons ( I am old) so had to learn how to pronounce things. ) - I cannot to this day say fore head - rather than forred