Who else found school to be boring and unchallenging?

Not in my entire school career (1950s to 1960s), no.

I don't recall ever being bored in Infants' and Primary School, but I did not enjoy certain subjects on the five-year General Certificate of Education curriculum in my senior school, a Local Education Authority run grammar.

I did not like them because I could not learn them properly, particularly Mathematics and French. The former was not helped by two particular teachers. The first, in my Third Year*, was in his last year before retiring, and probably bored with teaching the same thing each year. He was little better than a talking text-book. The other was a bombastic character universally known (behind his back!) by his bizarre, old cricket-club nickname of 'Drasher' - he was only interested in the bright, keen pupils and certainly did help them; but did not suffer fools gladly, defining a "fool" as including anyone who found the subject difficult.

Besides, I honestly thought I would ever need most of the Maths and certainly not French - until my first ever trip to that country, only six years after dropping the language as a GCE Ordinary Level Examination subject.

That Maths syllabus over the full five years was very wide-ranging: Logarithms, Arithmetical tools like LCM and HCF, Algebra, Pure Geometry, Mensuration, Trigonometry, Equations linear, quadratic and simultaneous, Graphs, Calculus, I forget what else... A single, coherent, cohesive syllabus covering all topics in a developmental progression. I struggled with and so disliked most of it; and that lack of aptitude sank my early dreams of becoming a professional scientist or engineer. Years later I began to understand some topics by unexpected routes into them; at work and outside.

I did not enjoy most of the compulsory PE and Games, either. I was not good at them and was not really interested in sports, nor am I now.

On the plus side, my school had an active set of voluntary, after-school clubs and activities, and I enjoyed some of these.

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So no. The question is far too single-line for "Yes" or "No".

I did not find school "boring and unchallenging"; though parts of it were certainly challenging and not in a good way.

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What puzzles me is your recalling this:


Going over the same material year after year? No progressively widening and advancing each subject?

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* Until first Comprehensive education then the National Curriculum, British schools counted each School Year from 1, or First, per school.

So primary schools had their First to Fourth Years, the upper school had its own First to Fifth (ages 11 to 15), the normal school leaving age being 15-16.

If you stayed to study to 'Advanced Level' as university entry qualifications, their two years were the Lower and Upper Sixth Forms or Years.

The changes brought a system that counts your entire school life in a single sequence from Year One in Infants' upwards to your leaving year.

I learned absolutely nothing in grade school. College taught me how to be an adult and educated me. But I think truly intelligent people educate themselves. I have learned more from reading books in my bedroom then being forced to learn from teachers

Not me. I was stressed out most of the time. I struggled with social anxiety and attention, couldn't remember anything from the classes and had to learn everything anew before exams..yet in some subjects I couldn't reach a better final grade than 3 (which is C, I assume). Anything that required computing and math operations was a struggle no matter how much I tried. I also had performance anxiety so whenever I was randomly supposed to show what I knew in front of the others I got a brain fog.

Schools are not places of academic improvement. They are places of social and economic assigns and a system of acclamation to group think, adaptaion to authoritative cooperation, and adjustment to assigned ascention.

That's why they always named the actual places of learning ACADEMY. Or something other than the term used for a group of mindless fish.

It's not really possible to put or insert intelligence into someone's head anyway. Either you naturally think and seek knowledge with which to help you think or you don't. The wealthy like the idea of having supersmart kids. Unfortunately , even the academies fail trying to give that to all of them. The wealthy also like the idea that we riffraff are at a disadvantage. Unfortunately, the public system doesn't always succeed in 100% "worker bees" either. In fact both systems end up turning out abt 2% major kooks.

In the US we give those rich losers jobs as politicians and the poorer ones we call cops and robbers.

Grade school was an exercise in doing the least amount of work to earn a diploma. Apparently, many colleges are the same with just a larger price tag.

I hated school. I had to walk two miles to my Jr. Highschool and more than three miles to my Highschool if I missed the bus. I would usually leave the house at 5:30 am to show up at school around 6:15 hangout with friends and play basketball for an hour before the first bell rang. On the days I didn't have gym class I'd walk home after the first bell and then walk back to school during lunch time where I'd meet up with friends and play basketball. I"d go to the couple of classes i had after lunch, so my older brother would see me get off the bus and think i went the whole day. I didn't really excel at anything outside of sports. I liked math and history but never really spent anytime doing the homework. Nobody really seemed to care and I never showed my report card to anyone.

I loved learning and still do.
I've always found everything I learned relevant to life and the world around me.
I did not enjoy sports or being bullied in the playground.
Outside school hours. I read a lot and spent time alone in nature, observing animals, plants, seasons and the sea.

Since finding the motivation to start assignments before the day they’re due, I’ve found college to be time-consuming but not very difficult. I only had a couple college classes where I really felt like I applied myself.

Anyone who could leave to a better school or get an apprenticeship by grade 10 did. My highschool didn’t offer any of the subjects needed to get into university. So if you were stuck there you were stuffed.

I found school always wonderful

I wonder what your class valedictorian is doing now compared with you....

i do wish i had put more effort in it, but, on a positive note, i had a hell of a lotta fun with other stuff i was involved with.

I hated every moment I ever spent in a classroom. I have a worthless B.A. in English Lit. and I spent my entire working life in restaurants and retail. The only reason why I am a college grad is it kept me from being drafted and certain death in Vietnam.

School was a mixed bag.
In the end it's about parents in wage jobs and no other places for kids -. It's about English only and the slave mentality.

Did u end up going to college

I found school bloody horrible . I was seve severally dislexic and didnt learn to read properly or write properly till about 11 /12 so everyone thought I was just stupid and lazy . I was also hopeless at sport . The best day of schooling for me was the day I left for good .

I day dreamed a lot but I liked high school

I found it wasn't able to hold my attention. I got great grades, but I couldn't focus in class. I was diagnosed with ADD, which was the popular new diagnosis of the day, but I think was accurate in my case. I was also diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome, which nobody had heard of at the time.

I was fortunate enough to have parents who helped me focus on my homework when I was at home. They didn't do the work, they just kept me on task. Thanks in part to them, even with my particular set of challenges, I ended up in the National Junior Honor Society.