The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.
I just never did like school.
You know when I was a kid, I hated every day I was in school, from the kindergarten right through to my last day of high school.
School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.
When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'
I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.
It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers, the security guards. Nobody could relax in such a racial and hormonal disaster area.
I always hated school.
School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.
I didn't really enjoy school in general.
At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.
I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!
When I was at high school, I used to pretend that I had work, and I would go and tell the head of school that I, like, really needed to leave, and I was really stressed out because I had work.
I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.
Does ever a kid likes to go to the school on his first day? No, right. But then he is prepared that way.
I was an anxious kid. I worried about getting homework finished, even back when homework didn't count for anything.
They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.
I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.
I started school in the 4th grade and it was a real drag.
I didn't love school.
I think there were so many times that I just felt so overwhelmed by school and by my relationships with my friends and I felt like I was going to be stuck in high school forever and I was never going to achieve my dreams.
Having kids in school feels stressful for me.
I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.
