Things students dislike about school

Brooke Little

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student lives

Apr 18, 2019

5 min read

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In general, going to school isn’t too bad. A school is just a place every kid is required to go. Afterall it is a great place to meet new people and discover new things. It also gives kids something to do as well as teaches them routine and good social skills. It gives them the opportunity to be involved in sports, clubs, all while taking classes. Still, with all the good parts of schools, it does come with the bad, here are the things students dislike about going to school.

Your alarm clock rings, time to go to school, just to start off the day is having to wake up early just to go to school. Teenagers need to get at least eight hours of sleep at night and with an early start, it’s difficult. It’s especially difficult for the kids who are juggling things outside of just going to school, it starts to seem like sleep falls to the bottom of their to-do list.

What’s the best thing to do after a long day of school? Anything else besides homework, once you leave school to go home its suppose to be your free time. Instead, teachers will send more work home than what was already assigned in class. It feels very unnecessary after students just did the same exact work. Students have already been in school for seven hours, that should be enough. Although it doesn’t suggest its enough time for schools considering the majority of students have to come home and spend hours working on homework. It’s especially hard for the students in extracurriculars or with a job finding time after school to balance both. With homework they’re just isn’t enough time in the day.

The fears of failing, with tests it brings this fear out in a lot of students. Tests end up putting a tremendous amount of stress on students. Most kids just cram everything they can the night before the test and hope they do well. It’s been shown that because of tests it has caused students to have a lot of stress issues and even linked to anxiety. Tests for sure are one of the most dreaded things for all high schoolers.

Why learn about topics that no one cares about? Not everyone likes learning about math and history. Let’s face it the majority of the curriculum is pointless. Most of the things taught either a teenager won’t need to know or doesn’t care to know. By the next year a lot of the stuff learned will be forgotten, its the inevitable. Students should be able to take even more classes that apply to their interests and what their strengths are.

Grades, enough said. Schools put so much stress on students, having them feel the need to meet grade expectations. A lot of students tend to feel such a high pressure to try to get good grades in their classes. Most of the time students will try their hardest to learn and get better at a subject, but not every subject is for them, nor do they appeal to their strengths. Instead, they have to just deal with getting a below average grade throughout that class. This can for sure feel unfair to those students that just seem to quite understand a certain subject.

Not everyone can get along with others, but at school, it makes students at least have to try. It’s a known thing some people just can’t get along with others and it’s especially awful for students when they have to go to a class with a person they’re not completely fond of every day and interact with them on a daily basis. Even worse when a teacher will assign a partner that they have to work with while they have no choice but to put up with it. Sometimes some people can’t just work with everyone.

Long days, five days a week, the majority of the year, after awhile school seems to feel like a waste of time. Kids spend a lot of their first eighteen years in school, starts to feel as if students are just watching the days go by. Week in and week out the routine is to go to school from Monday to Friday while the whole week waiting for their two days of freedom. The only thing keeping them sane is the thought of winter or summer break. Every kid complains about it, they just want to be out of school and live life.

Teachers teach hundreds of kids all the same way, but not everyone is able to learn the same way. Schools expect by each grade a student is supposed to know certain things, it can’t work this way though because everyone learns differently and at their own pace. With that for some students who learn slower or faster, it can seem unfair.

Schools have been compared to a prison, the feeling of having no freedom. A lot of students think this because they feel like they are being bossed around, having teachers telling them what to do all day. Then a bell schedule that tells kids when to go somewhere and when its time to do something. Also the feeling of lack of choice like what they’re doing or who they have to do it with.

All in all, even though students may feel a lot of these things towards school its still a requirement to get an education. Students have to learn to live with it as they will have to put up with it for many years. All though there are some things that schools and teachers could do to make school more bearable, students will have to put up with it for now.