Which school years were you most isolated from your peers??

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I honestly can't believe that!

6ht - 8th was definitely the worst for me. Probably because this was when I started getting crushes on practically every girl I met, but was even more of a bumbling idiot than I am now.

College was my best school experience since the people I was in class with were more like me and could relate to my oddity.

I think my worst years were grades 7-9. (although 8th grade was slightly better) In 10th grade, people started being nice to me for no reason, and I learned to socialize then.

(For the record, my high school was 10-12 and junior high was 8-9, so 9th grade was like a souped-up middle school year, and I had a huge ego boost in 10th grade from finally being in a real high school.)

I can believe it. During summer school between 8th and 9th grade, I had to deal with a school principle who made fun of my name. I think that was when I realized that some adults are less mature than some children. There are some people who think they are great teachers who are utterly clueless about how to interact with their students. Some times it's just a personality conflict and the teacher does not have the maturity or experience to know how to suppress their own impulses.

Yeah I guess some teachers just want the summers off, unfortunately.

Believe it or not, that's what happened. I learned very quick that being a teacher isn't symonious with being a saint. The teacher in Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is just a brat who needs some coffe compared to what I endured.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ISJAct04Y&feature=related[/youtube]
I wanted to kill that woman so bad. I don't anymore because she's no longer a problem for me. At least physicaly. I came across her e-mail adress and aparently she is still teaching at the same school. I'm considering writing to her and thanking her for wrecking my life and giving me so many mental scars and that I will dance at her funeral.

I see your Pink Floyd, and raise you a Twisted Sister. (similar theme)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1LXhgXPWs[/youtube]

I WOULD have picked 1-12. I went to a community college, and people suddenly seemed more reasonable. Prior to 1, things were simpler.

[quote="dunbots"]I see your Pink Floyd, and raise you a Twisted Sister. (similar theme)

Nah, perhaps Eminem and Lil Wane's "No Love" fits.
"It's a little too late to say that your sorry now
You kicked me when I was down
f**k what you say
just don't hurt me mo more
you get no love

You showed me nothing but hate
You ran me into the ground
But what comes around goes around
And you don't hurt me
You don't hurt me no more"

The last two lines would be a lie becuase she still hurts me mentaly via memories and night mares. But most of the song describes what she did to me and how I feel about her. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2ssT8lzj8&ob=av2el[/youtube]

Or perhaps Areosmith's "Janies Got a Gun". In the song Janie killed her father to make him stop abusing her and in real life I wanted to kill my teacher to make her stop abusing me.

Jr. high was horrible for me.

I wasn't expecting all these YT videos to be posted but ah well that's alright.

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Grade 2 was the worst for me, being locked in cubicles for days on end - only being let out so that I could go home. Never had the chance to make friends during that year and if I was allowed to go out on recess, I was so lost.

That's terrifying!! Why were you locked in cubicles??

7th - 8th grade

Couldn't really pick one in that poll but my isolation began after elementary school.

First time I had severe isolation was in 8th grade when I got into a fight with a group of female friends. Because this was a Catholic School with only 35 students in 8th grade I had no one to hang out with at recess and would just hang out at the punishment wall (even though I never did anything that entire year I was there to get in severe trouble). I just didnt want to deal with anybody. I eventually apologized and they let me hang out with them again but they started to treat me really bad for the rest of the semester.

The next year I moved to a new school district where I was a new kid in a 3500 student school. Arrangements by my homeroom teacher to find someone for me to sit with at lunch fell through because he plain forgot. I went some semesters throughout high school without someone to sit with and even though there were some people I could've tried sitting with during those times I was too scared to ask. Other than that the isolation wasn't so bad.

Same goes for college. I suffered from a severe breakdown and medication withdrawal during my final semester and closed myself off in my apartment. My isolation increased when I was one of only a few people I know doing summer school that year (everyone I was close to either graduated or wasn't doing summer school).

And then there's been my past four years of living at my parents completely cut off from everyone...except my friend who visits on weekends when he doesn't have grad school stuff to do.