when did education become a burden?

Learning is something to be valued and enjoyed yet I feel like at some point in my life I just learned to dread school. Was it something I learned from friends or siblings or the media? School is supposed to be fun, right?

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MaryJanine · 61-69, F

It depends on what kind of a teacher you get and whether he or she makes your life miserable or not. I had fun in kindergarten, then got accused of something in first grade and got punished (unjustly) for it. I hated her for the rest of the year. Second and third were okay, then our class jumped from 3rd to 5th, I ended up with the crabbiest teacher in creation. She picked on me for everything imaginable, and her favorite phrase was, "How you got to fifth grade, I'll never know!"

Oh, how I longed to tell that old bat, "By double promotion." But I had the feeling such an answer wouldn't be welcome, so I never did.

lka2802 · 26-30, F

@MaryJanine I've had my share of wonderful and awful teachers too; it makes me wonder why the awful teachers sign up for a job that they don't enjoy and that doesn't pay very well

MaryJanine · 61-69, F

@lka2802 There are two kinds of adults - parents and teachers - that should like kids and enjoy interacting with them. If they can't do that, they shouldn't teach or have kids.