Why school sucked

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I hated school growing up. There were so many things about school that sucked.

1. I was bullied endlessly.
2. I was a faster learner than my classmates so I was bored all the time even in honors classes.
3. I hated homework.
4. Some kids hogged up the teachers' attention( the troublemakers and the butt kissers).
5. Teachers played favourites.
6. Some teachers had really poor class management skills.

Did school suck for you? If so, why?

Yes, my school experience was probably one of the most negative experiences I had in my life. I explained my experience in high school and college on two threads on this site which is what I'll post below:

High School

Yes, school has been an issue for a long time. I was unschooled all through elementary - which was wonderful - but I chose to switch because I didn't have access to many books or learning opportunities at home (two working parents, never with time for library trips). I felt like I was falling behind my peers, so I asked to be placed in the online school my older sisters were enrolled in at the start of middle school. I'd been reading their high-school textbooks, and I loved the material. And middle school went pretty well, actually. I was behind here and there, mostly when it came to writing, but I caught up and genuinely enjoyed it for a while. Until ninth grade.

I'd already read most of the assigned fiction and textbooks thanks to my older sisters. Going over it again I was totally disillusioned with the content. My English teachers never gave me any criticism. The history books were filled with glaring errors (written by the school's co-founder, of course). And that's not to mention the blasted science courses. I could rant for days about those. A real question from a test: "There were no dinosaurs on the Ark. True or False?" Anyone want to take a crack at that? The answer is false. Freaking false.

I begged my parents to let me transfer out and switch back to unschooling, but they refused. I've had to weather it out since. I lapse into months of lethargy, having to work through this kind of garbage. I hear public school students complain about having to regurgitate information, but I'd give anything just to be taught what's true, or at least has some semblance of sanity.

I would have to say that school sucks for me for the following 6 reasons you listed. But the number 1 reason, the bullying was by far the worse of them all.

Elaine, you probably should have been in college rather than high school. I don't know you but I see your posts and it's possible you're a Savant.

I didn't enjoy high school or even undergrad studies until I transferred to a university that was based on the educational philosophy of John Dewey. After that, I started to like academia, found a competitive grad school that challenged me, and began working in an industry that I love.

In chronological order:

1. Always had one or two bullies pushing and shoving me around on the school bus on the way to school, i would always walk back after school or get another bus.
2. Stuck to one place before school opened for registration and kept getting harassed for staying in the one place i thought safe and out of harms way.
3. Later years of school I started to get lunch money because i continually couldn't stomach eating sandwiches every day and parents could not make sandwiches so I kept giving them to people who would eat them instead.
4. Always singled out in classes in terms of team-building exercises, always got distracted by people chatting behind me, hard chairs were uncomfortable, and never could complete homework because I never got support from parents and the internet and gaming were the ultimate distraction from my school work.
5. Was put into the lowest class set, meaning I could only sit the lowest grade exam paper. Thus resulting in being taught by supply teachers in most of my classes who didn't care about my education.
6. Abuse persisted through P.E, where the bullies congregated and I was unlucky to be put in the same group as them.
7. Dreaded going home but also dreaded staying at school, also faced abuse at home if I took a single step out of line like for example, not making my bed in the morning or unable to go to sleep because of my sensory overload.

It sucked because of a combination of usually being the shortest boy in my class, usually being the only Jew in my class, undiagnosed autism/lack of autism knowledge.

I'm so sorry you guys had to endure so much bullying. Bullying is number one on my list because it made me want to skip school as often as I could. Kids called me names and ganged up on me. They kicked my backpack in middle school. I almost never had anyone to hang with. I wanted to beat the snot out of my bullies, but I knew the teachers would have punished me instead of the bullies even though the bullies deserved to beat up.

College sucked too. Even there I was a faster learner than my classmates. I took dual enrollment classes in high school and my professors didn't even realize that I was dual enrolled because I had the best grades in my class and I was very mature for a high school student. The professors were pretty stuck up and full of themselves.

My sister's teachers were even worse than mine since she was in special education classes. Most of her teachers couldn't run a classroom to save their lives. Some of her teachers were not very bright either. One of her teachers didn't even know the capital of New Mexico. How can you be a teacher and constantly pass on incorrect information to your students?

Private schools aren't any better than public schools. I went to public schools and now I work at a private school. The private school kids give the public school kids plenty of competition when it comes to their crappy behavior.

Schools are run by dumbasses.

1-5 all true for me, in addition to

6. 4th grade teacher left for maternity leave at beginning of year, long term sub was the best teacher I’ve ever had, when 4th grade teacher came back, she targeted me and set me up, lied to me, tried to play me and my parents against each other.

7. First half of Kindergarten spent in Texas, teacher literally hated me, the only thing I remember about that school is the corner that she made me stay in, she convinced my young inexperienced parents that I needed to be institutionalized or in a special school, she is the reason I was put on an anti-psychotic for a few months until I left Texas and my parents realized that all the medication was doing was making me crazy.

Bullying wasn't so much a problem for me, at least physical wasn't. I started weightlifting when I was 8, and martial arts not long after. I even won the Judo states competition fighting up in a higher division in under 16's when I was 13, simply because there was no other 13 year olds withing 20kg of me. Pretty soon the bullies at my school learnt to leave me alone.

Other than that I had all those problems.

I was actually better on friend making at school. Also most bullies these days "passive aggressively" bully other people by getting weaker people to do it for them. If not, it boils down to Snapchat nudes or something.
Academically, school is a mixedm bag. I am terrible at math, English, sciences, but was always good at art classes. I am also good with computers. I study film now; no tests, just short films or audio or proposals for work. Thinking about theatre, where I also have little issue. Also in history. Terrible at writing, but I somehow ace every exam. My grades are inconsistent, but my GPA legit does not matter for me to get a job.