What is or was your least favorite subject in school?

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I never hated a subject because of any teacher, we had some wonderful teachers in my day or at least we did at my school. They were mostly very kind and encouraging and I still look back at several of them with appreciation.

I think I will add Maths to the list, I love it now but it all went too quickly for me at school and I couldn't keep up, I was someone who needed extra help and time really.

Yeah, well this one always goes on about how we're all lazy or stupid and how we're never going to get anywhere in life.

That isn't going to help, maybe that is their way of trying to get you all to work harder, though I am not sure how helpful that is really, I would find it offputting too.

Worst one was P.E.

Then music; I flunked it completely in first year grammar school. I just totally didn't understand how it worked. Luckily never had to do it again.

French was also almost impossible to me. Despite having idiomatic, if limited, german because of family holidays there each year, the actual mechanics of language were like greek to me! , for instance I can remember not understanding what bit of language "est" ( "is") was. What is this thing? was my reaction.

And then chemistry. Exactly like

I liked the ideas, up to a point, the elemental table etc, but the actual process was just so messy and unpredictable.


Me too, relatively.

But P.E. was the one I would skive off, hide in the music rooms upstairs with my piano-playing friend ( the only friend i had ), whenever I possibly could. I hated having to change clothes for it, into revolting skimpy ugly stupid ( what is the point of a "skirt" the length of shorts, to play hockey in?!) stuff, and go out into the cold, or a muggy gym, and run around after a tedious ball, or climb over objects which could much more easily just walk round! ?

Teachers made a big difference to me in certain subjects. Maths, Geography, for example. But English, Art, Biology, and History I loved whoever was teaching it.

PE is a cruel joke. Everyone dresses up in skimpy clothing which shows every physical flaw, while the strong, confident and physically able lord it over the weak while the teacher encourages them. Then you all have to strip off and have a shower together.

Try as I might, I can't think of anything more traumatic a school can serve up. Educationalists must know this and the only reason I can see for PE continuing is for some nefarious social engineering/oppression reason.

Phys Ed, that's when the bullying got be the worst while in class. Nothing says getting fit like "hey, let's put him in the net so we can kick frozen soccer balls at him with fullest force, hopefully hitting him in the head!"

Science was also really bad. I loved math, but couldn't stand science. Especially the labs - oh how I hated doing labs. We had to do it in groups and I was the last picked and even then I wouldn't do anything but sit in the background because the science experiments always required putting something together and I've always been terrible at putting things together (refering to my early frustrations with Lego.)

Maths.

Not because I dislike maths, but because in regular school environment I failed maths classes.

When somebody taught me outside school they then wondered why I had trouble keeping up in class.

Maybe I'm just better with one-on-one teaching situations?

English cos i was s**t at it n secondly it was a very boring subject.

Religious Studies. Absolutly useless.

QFT

I generally like my teachers :D but there are a few subjects I don't really care for >.>
I love math, but not English, even though I'm just as good at English as I am at Math. :) I absolutely despise History, and the less I say about P.E. the better. >.>

The one I hated the most through most of school was called social studies. It combined the worst parts of history, geography, environmental studies, and sometimes civics, but it wasn't like any of those classes alone.

I hated English through most of school and really struggled with it.

Math I liked up until high school, then hated, then liked it again at community college.

Art I hated up until high school, then I loved it and mostly took art because it didn't require the kind of intellectual skills I was losing.

Science it depended on the topic.

I started out flunking chemistry, then pulled it up to a D minus (the lowest grade above total failing) by my lab work (I couldn't understand the theory whatsoever but I could follow concrete instructions if given enough time).

I took geology from a teacher who was probably autistic himself, and it was a great class.

Gym class depended on the teacher whether I liked it or not. I usually didn't like it. I had real trouble dressing and undressing myself and was always late, and couldn't deal with a lot of the games that required predicting certain things. This is despite the fact that on my own and away from school I was incredibly athletic, could walk forever without needing to stop, climbed anything in sight, was very flexible and agile in many situations, etc. It just didn't show up on the standardized tests, which tested skills in isolation.

My liking for a subject by the way is not necessarily related to skill in it.

My class actually danced on tables during that class. We were studying Satanism and drugs.

We never learned any biblical general/cultural knowledge though.

I have to pick one?

I hated going to school.

Worst: PE, Biology, Math

My favorite subjects like english, history, etc were still stupid. College was a vast improvement.

PE. I hated how my PE teachers got captains to choose, who was going to be on their teams. I was always the last one picked.

Nope, that was me!

To be fair though, I did like playing floorball. It required no great athletic prowess, and allowed us to let off excess steam.