Your Student days?

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chic

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Did you enjoy school? Do you feel that you learned a lot of useful information that has helped you in life? Were you a good student?

I didn't always enjoy school early on because I was sent to parochial school where the nuns beat an education into us. That was nasty. I got good grades because I was terrified not to. In public middle school and high school, I enjoyed myself more but goofed off a lot. Didn't learn much. College taught me a lot, inspired me, and has helped me in my adult life to be able to converse with almost anyone on multitudes of subjects.

What were your student days like?
 

School bored me to death. I felt like an alien being among the lemmings. We were expected to learn by rote and not ask questions. The final year I majored in pot and boys, but fortunately graduated with reasonable grades. University was a revelation. Exploring ideas and personal growth were actually encouraged! My mind exploded into thought, and I have never been the same. I joined the debating team, discovered political science, and developed a social conscience. It was the first step toward the long road I still walk today.
 
School for me had its ups and downs.. During the first few years, I was totally bored and I thought an education would be useless..
When I entered high school, I joined the senior hockey team and I think I spent more time on the ice than in school.. Somehow I managed to keep up my marks in order to stay on the team.. I was then asked to play hockey for the local professional team (in Quebec City) which I did without my parents knowledge.. I played 4 games for them and my father was then called down to be told about that adventure and I was offered a contract to play as a pro.. My father then told me "No way!!! Back to school, graduate and then you can do what you want"..I graduated high school, went on to university and then went about my life playing hockey but not as a pro..
Would you believe that they offered me $3500 a year to play as a pro?? That's all.... In those days, it was quite a lot of money (1955-1956).......
 

I hated it as time went on; was a lousy student and skipped many days.

Learned (and liked) USAF pilot training program and learned more useful things than in grade/hi school.
Later earned a B.S. degree and went on to become a teacher, and a good one too.
 
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all . . . that about sums it up.
 
School was where my friends were so I enjoyed the social part of it, although I was never very clubby. As far as academic goes, I was a regular student, good in some subjects and not so good in others, but not exactly a model student.
 
Like Chic I was schooled by the nuns and unlike regular schools today you just cant goof off in there, in high school I was taught by the Brothers of the Catholic faith. The rules were strict and if you get below a C for 3 months then the parents were notified to remove you to a public school. Best part is college was easy for me after been schooled by these Brothers in high school.
 
I hated school, was bored and never fit in. As an adult I have loved learning and have taken college classes from time to time but I've never gotten a degree in anything. Books have always been my best friend or I'm sure I'd be a real idiot today. I love to research and study things that I find interesting or unusual.
 
You remember the movie "Carrie"?:D Maybe not THAT bad but I did get cheered up watching the popular kids get theirs in the end. Nowadays they have all these anti-bullying campaigns. That's progress too late. I guess in our day they thought it was character building. Bookish and awkward...it's too bad, if I hadn't spent so much time being frightened I might have been able to focus on my studies.

I went back to college as an adult and really enjoyed just about every class and did really well. I'm sorry it took twenty years after high school for that to finally happen.
 
Linda said:
I hated school, was bored and never fit in. As an adult I have loved learning and have taken college classes from time to time but I've never gotten a degree in anything. Books have always been my best friend or I'm sure I'd be a real idiot today. I love to research and study things that I find interesting or unusual.
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That about sums me up too Linda...except I was also very rebellious at school..we were beaten regularly with a tawse ( a leather strap) for the slightest infraction..forgetting a pencil etc.. the more they did it the more rebellious I became..

I go expelled for truanting about 6 weeks before I was due to take my final exams and my mother had to go and beg the headmaster to allow me back to sit my finals...thanks God I passed them.

Mum used to say, school is the best years of your life you will regret this when you go out into the working world, and wish you were back at school....I'm still waiting ...never , never have I looked back with fondness of my school days!!
 
Hollydolly, I was never spanked in school. I guess cause I was so quiet and shy but I was bullied some but not a lot. Except by a pervert school bus driver that should have been fired. Anyway, I do recall a girl named Linda in my first grade class. There was Little Linda, Big Linda and me, Linda Ann. Well Little Linda, I now realize probably had ADD and couldn't sit still very long. She was a very tiny little girl and almost every day she got a hard spanking with a ruler. How I came to hate my first grade teacher, Mrs. Miles, for spanking poor little Linda every day! She really smacked her hard and little Linda would cry and cry. All she did was wander around the school room looking at and touching things, instead of staying in her seat where she belonged. I wonder if her parents knew what was going on? All through the years I have remembered that teacher as having HUGE arms as she spanked that tiny girl. She would have her lay over the desk and just wale away. Anyway, a couple years ago I was going through old photos and saw the school picture. She still looked like a meanie but her arms were not as big as I remembered. So glad those powerless days are behind me.
 
I loved school! I was a good student, and had lots of friends throughout my school years. I even remained friends with a few teachers long after I reached adulthood.

I was never expelled or suspended. I did have mom call and report me sick a few times when I wasn’t really sick, though.

In my earlier grades school was kind of a respite/sanctuary because there was tension at home (parents fighting and eventually split up). After the divorce we moved around a lot, so I changed schools quite a few times. I always hated to move and leave my friends. Things settled down when I reached 9[SUP]th[/SUP] grade.

My high school years were very happy.

But I did have to deal with some bullying, and so did my brothers.
 
Davey Jones said:
Like Chic I was schooled by the nuns and unlike regular schools today you just cant goof off in there, in high school I was taught by the Brothers of the Catholic faith. The rules were strict and if you get below a C for 3 months then the parents were notified to remove you to a public school. Best part is college was easy for me after been schooled by these Brothers in high school.
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I wish I'd thought of getting poor grades so I could have gotten out of parochial school. I absolutely hated it. I was always a quiet obedient kid and didn't deserve to be slapped and publicly humiliated. Plus I was super tall for my age so the nuns, who seated us according to height, always stuck me in the back of the room with all the boys and they got me into tons of trouble as boys always do. It was eight years of pure hell. I had to fight tooth and claw to go to public school after I graduated from there. I did and I felt like I'd been let out of prison which may account for my "party girl" attitude all through middle and high school. So Catholic school wasn't so beneficial to my education at all.

It taught me that the world can be unfair though, and I guess that's something.
 

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