What I dislike about school is homework for the sake of homework. You can finish it in class, and you learn nothing that day. I also dislike how if you get sick for a month or so you can catch up to what the class is teaching, but still fail because each class has homework every day. Equaling ~200 to start + all the homework in the meantime…
In my senior year I missed ~3 months before covid hit because of my health. I was able to catch up in the first month because I was used to doing this. However that January-February I could barely move without difficulty breathing and was on antibiotics the size of my pinky. Only to on my first day back be summoned by my principal and all the teachers because the principal thought I was faking my health.
Not to mention I went from a 3.3 gpa to a 3.02. Meanwhile from kindergarten to when I dropped out of college, half of my homework was docked or returned because the teacher couldn’t read what I wrote. So I have to spend 2-3x as long writing as an average person to make sure my homework is legible…
I am sorry you had to go through that. Hearing about it is strange because my experience regarding school has been vastly different. I remember the most popular girl in our class was left-handed, and she was well liked by the teachers too. From junior high onward, I was absent most days—only appearing during exams. So to speak, I was homeschooled for all matters concerned, sort of.
Not to say, I like the institution. It is not a great place—at least, mine was not. The students were not nice, the teachers mostly did not care, and spending 8 hours in such a place was a nauseating experience at best.
Though the fact that I was not able to have a good schooling makes me bitter. I feel like I was robbed of an important experience.