Was school boring?

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Do any of you agree with me when I say school was boring?

For me school was quite boring, even from preschool I can remember I was so bored while the rest of the class were learning to write and count and tie their shoes I could already but mum still sent me! I skipped 1st year primary school and went straight to 2nd after that they decided maybe its best I stay with kids my own age even though I could do work for kids years above me. High school just got worse!

I thought it was boring but there were also other issues I had problems with at school that I couldn't express beyond just saying that it was boring.

Yes, school was unbearably boring. Of course every kid says that but for me it was almost intolerable because it was so easy. It was especially bad in high school. We had 80 minutes of each class every single day. For my geography class, I was literally done in 5-10 minutes so I was forced to sit there doing nothing until the bell rings. Think about it: over one hour every day for 5 months doing absolutely nothing and not being allowed to study, go to the library, etc. Pure torture to the point I almost wish I WAS being bullied so I would have something, anything to do!

I had special ed from 2nd grade on and strangely enough no, it wasn't boring since the teaching was much more individual. Each student was given worksheets that met his specific skills and aptitudes, hence there was more independence. Furthermore, i liked the practical stuff we were being taught.

The only time school was boring was when they were teaching something I already knew everything htere was to know about.

It would have been boring to sit and listen to the teacher explain the same obvious point over and over to 10 other students (which was what usually took up most of the class time) if I had actually listened to that instead of doodling/daydreaming/tucking a book of my own inside my textbook and reading. I'd listen for the 5 min of new information, then do my own thing. I started college at 16 and it was the same. I'm good at entertaining myself, so it was not a problem.
When I started kindergarten I could read, and I complained about the fact that they were teaching the letters out of order and as characters who were mostly male (sexism!) and got sent to the school psychologist for it. I stopped telling them what I already knew after that.

It was beyond boring; it was torture.

Many school districts in the UK start kids at full-time primary school when they are 4 years old, rather than the statutory school starting age of 5. I swear in that first year they didn't do ANY teaching, it was just all play. I didn't see the point whatsoever - I could play at home, after all. Despite being only 4¼ when I started school, I could already read story books fluently, but there was absolutely NO screening in place for early readers.

I didn't even get tested until two entire school years later, and even then there was no differentiated curriculum for kids who were more advanced. Skipping school years, being put in higher classes for certain subjects, telescoping of the curriculum, pull-outs/enrichments for advanced kids - these were all measures that were unheard of in the UK in the 1970s.

Things never improved at school, and if anything, the curriculum just became more rote and pointless.

Extremely. There was nothing interesting during the subjects I didn't like and there was nothing I didn't know during the subjects I liked. And the breaks....the breaks between classes. I just stood and stared at the wall most of the time, cursing however thought the 15 minute breaks between 45minute classes area good idea.

School was boring boring boring boring boring boring boring. I hated spending so much time there eberryday. It is sad to think that we were forced to spend so much of our childhoods sitting in a classroom doing nothing.

High School was the most boring school I went to. I didn't get bored at preschool or Infacts school because I was too young to be bored, and I had to be took out of class a lot to go in the special ed group anyway so sometimes school could be fun. And it was never too easy for me, I always found it hard.

The OP's question does seem a little ironic though - you would of thought Aspies would be the ones who are willing to learn with counting and reading and all of that, and the NTs just wanting to play or talk to eachother and getting bored with logical tasks. Well, this was true in High School - the girls just sat putting make-up on in lessons and couldn't wait for breaktime or lunchtime where they can socialise with their friends and eat, and the boys couldn't wait to play football on the field with their mates and eat. Although I couldn't wait to eat, I found lunchtimes rather boring when I went through a stage of not having any friends to hang out with, but I did find lessons boring, like science, maths and english. Actually maths was sometimes all right because I was so hopeless at it that I got took out of maths class to have one-to-one lessons with a support worker, and although I was so slow and confused with maths, I still found it quite cosy to sit in a quiet room getting absorbed in a discussion about numbers. Science and english were more boring than maths. Sometimes we had science twice in one day, which bored me to tears!

Yes. Unless it was maths, IT chemistry or biology.

Before high school absolutely yes during high school no.
When our school played sports in was in the middle of the school day getting us out of 2 or more classes.
Science was always fun because it was alot of hands on work.
We had a green house with several large snakes and other reptiles and went on lots of good
field trips hiking,exploring caves,etc.
History was pretty good too. We had someone bring in authentic civil war stuff: rifles,uniforms,etc
and then went out to see Glory at the movies.

It was for me. I was quick in primary school too, and could have done with more challenging work.

It was boring when I was in elementary school because of the work I was not interested in, the school work and then going home and not having a break because of school work. It wasn't so boring anymore when I started to get help in school with my school work starting in 7th grade. It was boring because school was very hard for me.

Only time school was ever boring now was when I was not allowed to do anything to keep myself busy and I had nothing to do. Same as when there be nothing to do in class and it was just goofing off and socializing and I be bored bored bored. I used to cut classes towards the end of the school year. I was 17 when I started doing it and thought it couldn't be wrong. There is nothing to do so why stay? Teaches would stop giving out assignments in the last week of school or two in my high school and it just became goofing off in class and free time and it be so boring. I think the last couple of weeks of school is always boring. But in elementary school we still had school work until the last day of school and that be the only fun day ever because there be no school work and it was just goofing off and playing games and getting your final report cards and seeing who your new teacher is the following year. But in high school it was so different.

I wasn't bored until junior high.

Elementary school was easy and I was an "A student", but I liked being the "teacher's pet", so that was OK.

In junior high I got tired of doing everything just for the sake of grades. In straightforward classes like math I'd usually ignore the teacher and finish the work halfway through their lecture, then read the rest of the period. In other classes I started skipping work that seemed like a pain and just getting a passing grade because of high test scores.

Then in the first year of high school there were more course choices and I had a few classes related to my special interest. They were really easy, but I was given almost a "teacher's assistant" role and helped teach the rest of the class, so that kept it interesting. But in the second year of high school I didn't get any of those courses. There weren't enough students who applied to them so they were canceled. I didn't even get my alternates. They shoved me in some art classes instead. And I can't do art. At all. …So it got really boring again and I stopped going to school after the first few weeks.

I don't think there were any opportunities for "advanced" students in my schools beyond a few "advanced placement" courses in HS that weren't much different from the regular classes but gave university credit. I never heard of anyone skipping a year or anything like that.

It was torture: boring, terrifying, alienating - elementary school was the worst time of my life (so far.)