one word you associate with school

[AstylahAthrys]

High School: Hell. Enough said there.

College: Cool. I enjoy college and the people I go to school with. My teachers are smarter and are better at teaching. I genuinely enjoy college, unlike High School, which was an unbearable hell for me.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"Sucked".

There was a reason I was impatient for the graduation ceremony to end so I could get the hell out of that building and never set foot in it again.

[small]It was more than a little difficult not to send back all the reunion mailers with "kindly go fuck in the 'off' direction" written on them in bold black ink.[/small]

 

[Azkar Almsivi]

hot-emo-girls.

Now that I have left school however.

Jailbait.

 

[bigwon]

"Indoctrination"

it's a sort of rite of passage, something that you go through to be accepted in our modern society. Nothing really else, especially in times were knowledge is so widely distributed.

it drives me flipping mad when I see so many impressionable young folk scared into these places. You don't go to school to become a 'competent' *insert profession*, as much as you go to become 'official' basically.

It's a really primitive way of teaching, it teaches primitive values, and frankly my dear i don't give a damn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnTWxpTQt4

a little more then 1 word....hehehe all of that was just a means of going above the minimum limit....no attempt at self assurance or anything like that! hey!

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Challenging.

Yes, we all know that we attend school to learn and interact with one another, but it's also important to seek out challenging work or assignments that will make you think and really test your knowledge of a certain subject or class. That way, you will learn how well you are doing in that one area of studies and allow you to learn some things that you probably wouldn't have if you were playing it safe the whole time.

 

[Dakkagor]

Hell.

I still have the occasional school nightmare and I'm nearly fucking thirty.

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

Bullys, just geting the shit kicked out of me by people biger then me with more of them. Its funny how my school had a "NO BULLING WALL" that everyone had to sign, what a joke. Make me die a little inside whenever i saw it.

 

[dancinginfernal]

"Learning."

Generally my favorite part about school was learning. My least favorite was the work associated with the class.

 

[Coffeejack]

Douchebags.

It's only because the school I went to was absolutely filled to the brim people I hated. Could barely walk down the hall without getting made fun of or seeing two people about to get in a fight.

Misanthropy! (See also: Metro) Trophies to the usual address!

My school was a six-floored abomination of a structure with concrete playgrounds (an unusually common feature in that part of the world). The local mini-buses had signs on them saying "Sha Tin college students are expected to behave with courtesy". At one point the whole bloody school of 1,500 students had to be summoned by the principal to be reprimanded.

There was one kid (we never found out who) who had been doing his seconds on the floor of at least two separate toilets, on the changing room floors and allegedly in the pool. He had quite the high score before he was caught. Even the teachers were getting in a fix every now and then. I heard one English woman tried to kill herself.

On the plus side, my friend got a good field trip to Vietnam out of it for his Year 11 history class. He and his classmates were allowed to fire AK-47s on a range. The teacher in charge copped hell for that.

 

[Doclector]

Misery.

Complete and utter misery. You are made to feel like utter shit. Your opinions mean nothing, your ideas, somehow even less. Independent thought is hammered out of you. You are encouraged to believe you have one choice; Blend in with the crowd, or be punished for standing out, and for all of that, what did I learn?

Only that I should at all times assume I'm alone. That nobody will help me. Damn better than waiting on help that never arrives.

 

[llew]

sleep, i lose it in the night but gain plenty during the day

 

[PrototypeC]

I'm going to follow after CapnMorgan (without the crazy, if you see what I mean) with my word: "Bureaucracy".

Public school is oppressive, totalitarian and a self-supporting system of mediocrity. While every college and university in the world has thrived on being cutting-edge and hip, everything High School and lower is in no hurry to change the archaic system it works within. To get people to send their kids to your school, all you have to do is be in the area. That's it. There's no incentive to change what they perceive as not broken.

School is a soul-crushing place where your teachers double as cops, they're all incompetent or power-tripping, and there are no limits to what they can consider crimes. All good times with your friends, learning and enjoying spending time with the few good teachers (who aren't just in it for a daily paycheck) are despite the school system, not because of it. If you enjoyed your school days, it wasn't that school isn't awful. It's just that you were lucky.

 

[Wintermoot]

bullying
worst thing is that for most of the years that I was on the forced education system the teachers just didn't give a flying fuck or sided with the bullies blaming it on "behavioral disorders"

 

[THE_JOKE_KING33]

Exactly what "teeth" on the first page said.