Did you feel that way about school when you were a kid? I was always excited to get back. That’s why fall, not January 1, seems the start of a new year.
September 4, 2016
Did you feel that way about school when you were a kid? I was always excited to get back. That’s why fall, not January 1, seems the start of a new year.
I always looked forward to it as well. Especially the school supplies!
Yes. I still get excited going down that aisle in the store.
No.
To me, it was the absolute worst.
Every day was pure agony.
I can’t even convey how much I hated school.
When I was in elementary school, a teacher targeted me
ridiculed me and made an example of me.
I can honestly say that everyday was torture to go to school.
In middle school I was invisible.
In high school, I just survived.
There was only one class in my sophomore year that I enjoyed a little bit.
That was Art class and I got to design and paint a mural on the hall wall.
I really liked that teacher but after that, yep, pure Hell again.
I’m so sorry!
i’m like kaitlin. I got excited at the new supplies!
it always meant a brand new box of 64 crayolas sent to us from new york from my gram.
I remember a combination of excitement and anxiety. because it was always a new school. new kids. new surroundings. from the lower grades right on up.
they say it doesn’t matter to kids. but it does.
moving every year is not good for children. they need stability in schools and their lives. but I DID learn one important thing I guess.
the marine and I have talked about it.
we both learned how to ‘adjust’ to anything.
i’m very good at adjusting.
and that is a good thing to learn for living this life.
Even if it was painful at times, it was an invaluable lesson. You’ve both done well.
I too enjoyed getting back to school after vacations.
Fond memories. 🙂
I also liked school. That structured environment suited me. I didn’t like first grade reading class, though, because the teacher wouldn’t let me read aloud for those who couldn’t and it was pure torture to listen to them stumble through it. I spent a few reading times sitting in the coat closet which I thought was a lesser punishment than having to listen to them. 🙂
Yes, I remember that pain too. When I was an adult I volunteered to help with a beginning reading class one day a week. They did a lot better job of letting kids work at their own level. Having the volunteers helped make it possible.
LOL!
same here. w/o the coat closet!
my gram taught me to read (with expression!) when I was five.
I suppose kids all over are reading at five or even four now.
but not when I was a kid. and that sing song word at a time just drove me crazy! 😀
It does for me too! I remember my Mom seeming happier at this time of year too – I never got it, 6 kids at home all summer and my Dad deployed. What could not be fun about that? 🙂
PS: Hope you’re doing well, and enjoying your weekend!
Your poor mom!
I always loved school too. But lots of kids don’t…
We were the lucky ones who loved it.
I loved school, and write about that experience in my blog. So many good memories! On the bleak Canadian prairie, school was the most exciting thing going!
Yes! I can relate to that, even though we weren’t in an area quite as bleak.
I have to stand on the fence – I certainly didn’t want to be home with Mum/Dad who by then had retired – but I hated the walk to my primary school…around this huge park mostly my own. When I think of today’s kids and how they are driven or in groups, I hate to think what might have occurred if some man had approached me…
Then I went to boarding school during my secondary school years – a mission in itself but yep, away from Mum/Dad (who had aged considerably by then…
I don’t think school was a great place at all…I was not noticed by too many teachers, I fell over a lot – my hands shook – I often hang-out with the Maori kids who looked up at me as if I was a saint.
One of the circles we town children hang out in was “school milk” – not nice in summer heat, freezing cold with ice in winter – Mother said it was my job to make sure everyone drank the milk, so therefore you set the example.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/end-of-free-school-milk
I’m sorry your experiences were so unpleasant. That sucks. 🙁 But I’m impressed at all you’ve been doing lately.