Moments during lessons in school where you though to yourself, "You know what, I can't be arsed"

[Parasondox]

Happy peaceful Sunday to all at the Escapist,

Oh secondary school (high school for those in North America), how I don't miss a single bit of it. An outcast, never popular, bullied for whatever reason, the so called "cool kids" getting away with shit and worse is that several teachers just allow them to do it. I can name a million moments where I just wanted to escape that hell hole. I was a young black kid who didn't lesson to Grime, Rap, RnB, didn't have a strange walk as if I was shot in the leg, didn't buy £110 trainers and didn't have my jeans around my knees when I walked and I didn't speak slang (I have a well spoken accent mixed with American and British, I am from the Caribbean). I refused to follow the stereotype of that era of someone black living in east London.

One moment I can share that happened to me during was during English class. We were all given an assignment to come up with a speech and present it to the class at the end of the week as part of our English oral exam.

Assignment: You are the Prime Minster speaking to the nation about the 7/7 bombings and it's the day after that event. You must present it as though you are on national television which means you can't look down at the piece of paper as if you are reading it. (I hope you get what I mean)

So we went home and I did some background research. I didn't search for the speech itself cause that would be cheating but was looking at things that happened during that time of July. Mind you this assignment was given to us few years or less after the event in question. So in my speech, I also included something which was key that others didn't mention. Less 24 hours before the 7/7 bombings, London was congratulated with hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 so the capital was in a great and high mood.So I mentioned this within the speech and other things I were to mention about keeping Britain going, not letting the attacks divide the nation and so forth.

Just to let you know I weren't the smartest in the class and others around me would always nitpick and insult any work I did but at this moment I was confident. Ready to go and I started, I thought to myself that I was doing great, getting the points out there BUT as soon as I mentioned the Olympic celebration, in comes the laughing, the everyone talking over me and I just lost all confidence at that moment. It ended, I sat down and a comment had to be thrown my way from a bully saying,

"haha you are so stupid, how were people celebrating and what does olympic have to do with it HA HA HA HA"
"well if you actually did research, you would see that is what happened 24 hours before"

and then more stupid laughter from everyone in the class. Gratefully and thankfully my English teacher actually, defended me (first time ever) and saying that I was right to put that information in the speech because it did happen and plays a part in it and praised me for including that in there. I got a good mark but messed up when my confidence went. That was my "straw that broke the camels back" moment because all year I kept getting shit from others that I tried to hold back my emotions and just finally gave up on those in my school.

Sorry that too a while to explain what are your classroom moments where you just felt like or actually did just give up on those around you in the lesson and maybe even the teacher?

Comment below and thank you so much for reading.

 

[Barbas]

There were many times at which I felt like saying, "Right, this is a waste of my time. I'm going home, you can all get fucked." Poorly run institutions are a pressure cooker of stress and a waste of time that could be spent learning something from a good book at home, where you can get some actual peace and quiet.

Still, I am eternally glad that I never turned out like those socially-maladjusted, knuckle-dragging cretins who used to spend their time wandering the halls in baggy trousers, spreading STDs and scrawling misspelt insults on the toilet walls. Such people seem to exist to be social pariahs, but a more fitting target for my disgust and contempt has never been found before or since.

 

[Esotera]

Pretty much my whole maths department from about age 11 onwards, I just couldn't see the use of any of it and did absolutely nothing until GCSEs came up. Managed to get a decent grade with some last-minute revision but my understanding of maths is not good as it should be...this is sort of a failing of the UK educational system in general though I believe.

I also totally gave up on going to an extra-school concert where I was supposed to be playing guitar with a few others, as the music teacher was pissing me off & I was sick of the amount of time going into practising. Anyway, it turns out I was vindicated as he is currently on trial for allegedly raping a 17-year old sixth-former...

 

[StriderShinryu]

For me there's no big story to it, and I never ended up just walking out or not doing the work, but it was definitely higher grade level math as well. Overall, I did extremely well in school and I largely did well in math too.. but I just didn't care. It was just the most useless garbage they could have possibly wasted the time teaching us. The time could have been so much better spent with another elective slot on the time table as opposed to teaching us something that I'd wager 99% of us would never use until our own kids were being force fed the same material at some point down the line.

 

[FalloutJack]

I didn't pay much attention in high school or really give much participation. This was because my high school - faculty AND peers - were mostly shit. Dullards, the lot of them. I had to teach myself algebra. Homework was completed in class instead of giving an ass about what they were talking about. I also hated book reports, made up a couple of stories, and fooled my english teacher on numerous occasions. (This was how I discovered that I was an absolute genius in writing, BTW.) I was a 4.0 student without trying, which is terrible. Needless to say, I was happy for college when I actually began to learn things properly and fulfill a greater education.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

No story for me either. I just hated French. They speak English in Canada just fine, and I'm not going to France any time soon, and I'm not going to any of the countries ze French colonized in Africa. So what the fuck do I need it for. I already have two mandatory languages, lemme pick my third for fun.

 

[Hero of Lime]

There were random times in class where I just did not care about what the teacher was talking about. Not out of disrespect, I just didn't feel like listening or doing any work. One notable example would be some of my high school math classes. I hated the subject for most of my life, and there would be lessons where I just did not have the energy or interest to care.

 

[Tiger King]

I think I developed this attitude not long after begining secondary school.
there were some lessons I really enjoyed such as art but overall I just wanted out. Everything felt like a waste of time and I was sick of being told to do this and that. It's very frustrating to be told constantly to 'listen!' and 'grow up!'but then those same people wont listen to you and on occasion act very childish themselves.

I recall one incident where i was given a weeks worth of detention for 'being in the company of smokers'.
Some friends of mine had started smoking and one place they enjoyed smoking was in the corner of the school playground. One day a teacher walks into the playground and all the smokers get busted and I'm dragged into the round of after school detentions handed out because I was 'hanging around with them'.
Unable to attend the after school detention, because it would mean I would not be able to catch the school bus home, my punishment was reworked into a weeks worth of lunch time detentions. This meant that I was now serving a longer punishment than those that had actualy been caught smoking.

A few years later I went to college to complete an apprenticeship in engineering but found all the same problems there too.
Disinterested teachers that spoke down to you like you were a child, students pissing about and distracting those that wanted to learn, and too many bullshit lessons that had zero practical value in the working world.

I find it frustrating because I enjoy learning, but me and schools and the school enviroment, we just dont get along.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Having a history teacher declare to the class that I wouldn't like hearing about any failures by communists because I have an Eastern European last name.

He'd also stop, turn to me and say "sorry" when he mentioned any.

 

[viscomica]

No story for me either. I just hated French. They speak English in Canada just fine, and I'm not going to France any time soon, and I'm not going to any of the countries ze French colonized in Africa. So what the fuck do I need it for. I already have two mandatory languages, lemme pick my third for fun.

I guess some schools do that because of the score it gives them in the national school ranking. Some of our best high schools here have Latin, Greek, French and English as subjects. For real life? It depends. I use it for work and it was one of the main reasons I was employed but I'm willing to concede most high school students won't need it and / or can learn it from scratch once school is over. So yeah, the answer to that is: some schools wanna come off as a selective and "top notch" establishment.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Happens quite often when I'm too tired or just don't feel as if what the teacher's teaching is actually helping me to learn anything. There was one time when I just flat-out walked out of my Sociology lesson without explanation due to the sheer mundanity of the work we were doing, and the fact that my OCD and stress about the whole situation was pissing me off. I did eventually come back, about fifteen or so minutes later, after I'd had some fresh air and gotten bored enough to come back in, but...yeah.

Sometimes, I just feel like the exams and the stuff that they teach us in curriculum is more about memory than actual aptitude in a subject, and that we only learn things to pass in exam, rather than learning things for the sake of learning things. Because I do like learning things that I'm interested in, not just to get a ridiculously specific answer to a number of rigid but vague set of questions.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I was a young black kid who didn't lesson to Grime, Rap, RnB, didn't have a strange walk as if I was shot in the leg, didn't buy £110 trainers and didn't have my jeans around my knees when I walked and I didn't speak slang (I have a well spoken accent mixed with American and British, I am from the Caribbean).

I always wonder if the morons who wear their pants so damn low know that it was started in prison as a way of saying "I want anal sex".
True story.

OT: Hrm, I pretty much wrote off the majority of the kids I went to school with from about 2nd grade on and the teachers and faculty of the public school system the day they decided I was to be placed in both the ESE classes (for the really stupid kids) and the Gifted classes (for the really smart kids). Nothing like sending completely diametrically opposed messages to an 8 year old kid.
Later I went to a private school after enduring K-8th in public and learned more in 2.5 years I was in private school than I did in those 9 years in public. Sadly I didn't get along with the administration of the private school because I didn't fit their world view of how a Christian should be (despite attending church, having a job, being on student council and generally being liked by all the teachers). I was even told later that the entire faculty went to bat for me and the administration wouldn't hear a word of it. All because (get this) I played D&D. Never mind the fact that the Principal's own son who went there as well had been caught doing COKE IN THE BATHROOM and was allowed to stay. But no, we have to get the evil dice roller out of school as fast as possible.
I learned later it wasn't really that reason but mainly the fact that I had made quite a few of the administration kids (who went there for free) look bad in comparison when I totally outstripped them in GPA and got my Student Council seat by beating 3 of them for it. It prepared me for the idea of Nepotism later in life...

 

[Parasondox]

I was a young black kid who didn't lesson to Grime, Rap, RnB, didn't have a strange walk as if I was shot in the leg, didn't buy £110 trainers and didn't have my jeans around my knees when I walked and I didn't speak slang (I have a well spoken accent mixed with American and British, I am from the Caribbean).

I always wonder if the morons who wear their pants so damn low know that it was started in prison as a way of saying "I want anal sex".
True story.

Funny thing about that. I said to one of them who said to me that I was a "disgrace" to black people. So i retaliated with that comment about low jeans around the knees is often portrayed in prison as someone who wants to be fucked up the arse (pardon my german). All I got back "Shut the fuck up you fucking pussy or I will bang you out prick". I just laughed.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I was a young black kid who didn't lesson to Grime, Rap, RnB, didn't have a strange walk as if I was shot in the leg, didn't buy £110 trainers and didn't have my jeans around my knees when I walked and I didn't speak slang (I have a well spoken accent mixed with American and British, I am from the Caribbean).

I always wonder if the morons who wear their pants so damn low know that it was started in prison as a way of saying "I want anal sex".
True story.

Funny thing about that. I said to one of them who said to me that I was a "disgrace" to black people. So i retaliated with that comment about low jeans around the knees is often portrayed in prison as someone who wants to be fucked up the arse (pardon my german). All I got back "Shut the fuck up you fucking pussy or I will bang you out prick". I just laughed.

I'm told that it isn't, the idea was merely invented as a way of insulting people who wore their pants like that by implying they are gay.

 

[Parasondox]

I was a young black kid who didn't lesson to Grime, Rap, RnB, didn't have a strange walk as if I was shot in the leg, didn't buy £110 trainers and didn't have my jeans around my knees when I walked and I didn't speak slang (I have a well spoken accent mixed with American and British, I am from the Caribbean).

I always wonder if the morons who wear their pants so damn low know that it was started in prison as a way of saying "I want anal sex".
True story.

Funny thing about that. I said to one of them who said to me that I was a "disgrace" to black people. So i retaliated with that comment about low jeans around the knees is often portrayed in prison as someone who wants to be fucked up the arse (pardon my german). All I got back "Shut the fuck up you fucking pussy or I will bang you out prick". I just laughed.

I'm told that it isn't, the idea was merely invented as a way of insulting people who wore their pants like that by implying they are gay.

That's why I said often portrayed. It's not 100% true I get it but its good to mind fuck someone who bullies you for years and that was my first instant come back.

 

[Thaluikhain]

That's why I said often portrayed. It's not 100% true I get it but its good to mind fuck someone who bullies you for years and that was my first instant come back.

Normally, I'd agree, but the idea is built on assumed homophobia. If the person doesn't think gay sex was wrong, it doesn't work.

 

[Parasondox]

That's why I said often portrayed. It's not 100% true I get it but its good to mind fuck someone who bullies you for years and that was my first instant come back.

Normally, I'd agree, but the idea is built on assumed homophobia. If the person doesn't think gay sex was wrong, it doesn't work.

Nah he thought homosexual was wrong. One of the reason why he reacted the way he did and secondly kept using words like ****** to insult those who were different and not like him which included me. Even assumed a male teacher was gay because he crossed his legs and then became more of an arsehole.

 

[Thaluikhain]

That's why I said often portrayed. It's not 100% true I get it but its good to mind fuck someone who bullies you for years and that was my first instant come back.

Normally, I'd agree, but the idea is built on assumed homophobia. If the person doesn't think gay sex was wrong, it doesn't work.

Nah he thought homosexual was wrong. One of the reason why he reacted the way he did and secondly kept using words like ****** to insult those who were different and not like him which included me. Even assumed a male teacher was gay because he crossed his legs and then became more of an arsehole.

I meant, you are using an insult something which is built around homophobia. You are yourself saying being gay is wrong to do that.