Not really. I couldn't wait to get out of high school though. I did have fun, was active in quite a bit, and had a lot of friends but I just wanted to be an adult. My friends now say things like they would love to go back to childhood or teen years....not me. Adulthood beats childhood in every category.
I hated it. Surprised? LOL I counted the minutes till I could get out every day. Hated it. High School was better. But grade school was nuns. Hated it.
I loved grade school for one half year when I moved to Northlake, Illinois when I was 6. I got to go to a public grade school for first grade. It was great. Then I went to Catholic grade school after that. I hated it. Back then the nuns were very scary. They had a lot of power over kids and could intimidate the bejesus out of you. It felt like jail most days. Then my parents wanted me to go to Catholic High School because my best friend was forced to go. I came home begging them to let me transfer. Finally they relented. I felt like I was free for the first time in my life.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 27, 2019 5:43 PM MDT
I enjoyed it alright. I liked the school aspect of it more than the social aspect. I was always quiet and shy and nerdy and only had a couple close friends, but I actually liked reading and math and most of my memories of school are positive.
Not hate but extremely bored. The stuff they taught was childish and I already knew much of it from being taught at home. They had no advanced classes at that time. I think I would have enjoyed them. My son was the same way. His sixth grade teacher said she didn't know what to do with him...he knew more than she did.
The best part of grade school was kindergarten because kindergarten had nap time but first through eighth grade kind of sucked for me because I went to a private Christian school where I never really fit in. My parents didn't have enough social standing in church for me to be liked by the teachers even though mom spent every Sunday morning trying really hard to be in the in crowd at church. I got mostly good grades except for home economics which I failed. I never really had close friends there because the school was too small for that.
I got my dad sent to the principal's office one time! In science class the teacher said the universe was only 6000 years old. When I came home from school dad always asked me what I learned in school so I told him the universe was only 6000 years old. Anyway, my dad said that was a bunch of horse apples because we can see stars that are a lot farther away than 6000 light years. I told the teacher what my dad told me so dad got called in for a meeting with the principal and the pastor to straighten him out. Lol, I got my dad in trouble! Somehow, they weren't able to change dad's mind even after threatening him with eternal death by being kept alive to be tortured forever.
Anyway, my dad saved me from going to the Christian boarding school where mom wanted to send me. Umm yeah, that was mom's plan for me.
This post was edited by Livvie at May 28, 2019 8:52 AM MDT
When I was a kid growing up, teachers could beat their students and that's the part I hated. At one time or another, I was also getting beat by both parents, baby sitter and an aunt or two.
This post was edited by Zack at May 28, 2019 6:56 AM MDT
Somehow, they weren't able to change dad's mind even after threatening him with eternal death by being kept alive to be tortured forever.
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