Did you enjoy high school?

Did you enjoy high school?

  • Yes, high school was great, and I'd do it again!

    Votes: 20 16.9%

  • Well, it was OK, but I wouldn't want to go back.

    Votes: 36 30.5%

  • No, it was awful.

    Votes: 57 48.3%

  • None of the above (please elaborate)

    Votes: 5 4.2%
  • Total voters
    118
  • Poll closed .
pgwenthold said:
The point in the second link about extracurricular activities is most certainly legit. I could have never made the sports teams in a larger school, but was good enough to be a 4-sport letterman in my high school.

However, there is likely a flaw in the first link


This aspect is pretty much meaningless, as it is probably an example of a single-ended observation. Things like tardiness and absenteeism are more noticable than arriving at time and attending, and so they get noticed. The larger schools will have more instances of absenteeism and tardiness, but it's not clear that it will necessarily be more prevelent when size of the classes are taken into account. More importantly, the teachers' reporting that they are a problem provides little insight into the question, because it is subject to bias. Not saying it's not a problem, just that the teachers' impression of whether it is a problem or not is not very useful for comparison.
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In some cases in my school, we don't have enough students to fill a roster. It can depend on the coach and if the students have a favorable opinion.

The above point in the second link deals with the perception by teachers...so I believe they were indicating a more negative attitude about students in the larger schools. I agree that correlation doesn't indicate causation.

glenn
 
I disliked high school but my experience was no where near as bad as many who have posted. I found the classes inane and most of my classmates to be vain and uninterested in learning. Looking back my memories of the good times I had during that period actually had nothing to do with school itself but during the times when I wasn't in school. I left high school bitter and sarcastic, and it took me two years in university to enjoy learning again.

That said I was not bullied (although I was in middle school). The preppie kids were mostly honors students so getting good grades was not considered "uncool" so there was no problem there. Given what others have posted I should be grateful that high school was not as bad as it could have been.
 
TriangleMan said:
The preppie kids were mostly honors students so getting good grades was not considered "uncool" so there was no problem there.
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That makes me chuckle, b/c at my school, the preppie kids were uncool.
 
I hated school. I did not have many social skills. Result - no friends. I was bullied extensively. One kid even got expelled because of what he did to me. He was not the worst one.

In those days there were no lessons on how to cope with bullies. I did not even know the word existed.

The only bright spot was the fact that I discovered I had some brains and could use them. I also believed it would all end one day after I left school.
 
Piggy said:
That makes me chuckle, b/c at my school, the preppie kids were uncool.
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Sadly at my school the preppies were the sports stars and other popular kids - who also happened to get good grades as well. Some of them went on to good things (engineers, teachers etc) and some didn't - sometimes high school popularity doesn't cut it in the real world.

My school has had reunions but I haven't gone to one and don't plan to. I've kept in touch with my friends from high school and could care less what happened to the rest of them.
 
I have been to several class reunions and intend to keep going. I have absolutely no bad feelings associated with high school even if it was somewhat boring. The preppies if there were any in my school were also mostly nerds (there weren't many who excelled in both sports and academics), so it depends on what side of the fence you were on as to whether they were "cool' or not. They thought they were "all that" but others thought they were just "stuck up dorks".
 
I like aspects of HS, and hated some. The popularity crap has got to go. I liked several of my classes, many of my teachers, and had some really good times with my friends. The whole dating game thing was evil. There's no place to get the rules of how to play, so you just stumble around wondering what the hell is going wrong.
 
High school itself wasn't too bad for me. Most of the problems I had during my high school years came from family problems. Alcoholic mother, adulterous father, divorce, moving, that sort of stuff. But I think by that point I had realized that it was just four years, I could tough it out, keep my head down and just get the he11 through it and move on to real life.

The part of school that was a true living hell was middle school. On top of family problems, add apathetic teachers, backwards bubba school administrators (almost got into serious trouble when I asked one not to call me "son") and just the general dickishness of adolescent kids. Not easy for a very smart (read geek) kid who was at that pudgy girlish-looking akward phase.

Hardest part was not having a peer group. Geeks were too geeky for me, not a jock, not a minority, not a prep...

I was always proud not to allow myself to be pigeonholed, but man did it make life hard sometimes.

As for those who consider high school the best years of their life? How sad to peak at 18 and know the rest of life was downhill.
 
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies ....

It was OK I guess. :cool:
 
I think the poll is closed now, but I just wanted to thank everyone for voting and providing comments.
 
How long do polls last, anyway?
This was a tough question for me. I was like two different people in HS. The first "me" excelled in classes in which I respected the teachers, was a multi-sport star, had a fantastic and varied group of friends, was even voted "prom king" (don't know if that was a lowlight or highlight). The other me hated many of the classes and thought the teachers were morons, hated the mind-sucking, inspiration-sapping institutional nature of it all, and basically only went to half of my classes my senior year, although I always went to sports practice. My grades then were As and Fs, and my behavior was basically ignored by everyone, including my parents, because I was breaking records in sports. So I resented everyone for THAT, also.

I ended up not graduating with my friends because I had one too many absences in the class that was my best subject. Ha!

I was "right" about much of what I disliked about school, but I was a typical stupid passive-aggressive teenager and didn't communicate my concerns to anyone. I wised up in college and did very well.

If I had to pick one word to summarize my feelings about HS it would be "uneasy."
 
I was harasses by other students for my " slight " weight problem and the teacher's helped in no way that any person could ever think was helpful.
 
Gah...I loathed high school.
I became bored long before I ever made it to high school, tho.
By the time I got to tenth grade, I pretty much just stopped going, for the most part. I just went in to take tests, more often than not.
I was picked on a bit, but I also had quite a few friends. Most of my friends were from different schools, tho. I was one of those early 90's angsty blue-haired people.

I barely graduated, even tho I managed to get out with a low B average. I tended to do well on tests, even if I hadn't showed up for class all semester. I just made sure I showed up often enough, and did the right projects to ensure a passing grade.

I really regret it now, of course, but I just couldn't be bothered at the time. Everybody seemed so small minded and classes were so slow...
 
How come no one ever asks if high school enjoyed me?
 
It might not be fair for me to answer- I'm just finishing high school. My senior year classes ended Friday.

I mostly liked high school, some parts less than others. I was pretty miserable when it started, but by junior year I had found a group I was comfortable with.

I've only recently begun to realize that through a lot of high school, a lot of factors were wreaking havoc on my body and my mind. Hormones, cliques, family pressure, work, drinking, drugs, dating, driving... the same screwed up environment everyone has to face. It's a wonder that after four years of that, we managed to pull through at all.

So, yeah, I can't see myself looking back nostalgically. I love my family and I love my friends, but I'm damn sick of this place.
 
Gravy said:
How long do polls last, anyway?
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I think when I started the thread, it asked how long I wanted it to run. I let it go for something like two weeks, hoping that most people would respond in that time.

It got almost 120 votes, so it did pretty well.
 
The classes at my school were pretty much a joke.

Our district had the lowest budget of any district in the state of California. Budget isn't everything, but that will give you an idea of the place, anyway.

With few exceptions, the only enjoyment I got out of high school was in choir and drama.

And girls.

But then, most of the girls I dated were attracted to me because of what I did in choir and drama!
 
I hated high school. The only good thing is it was so long ago, that I've forgotten most of the more painful memories.

Only had one real friend. She dropped out by grade 12, so that last year was the worst. My parents almost sent me to a private school that year, I was so down. I didn't really fit in anywhere, and didn't make friends easily. And boys, forget about it. I went to all those junior and senior high school dances - and never got asked to dance once. Never mind dating.

And on the academic front, I was bored. My parents didn't really encourage me to think of college or university. They were just happy to have me graduate and get a job so I could be self-supporting. So... I didn't really care about my grades. I skipped a lot of school, and did just the minimum necessary, and didn't take any "university entrance" courses. I got C's without even studying. I really really regret that now. I'd like to know what I could have done if I'd applied myself.
 
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