Worst High School Experience

[LostLuna]

My worst high school expererience was when the guy who always sat behind me in English class grabbed my hair and took a lighter to it.The teacher who was standing in the front of the room just stood there and didnt do ANYTHING about it. I quit school shortly after

 

[xLindziex]

There are plenty of times where I feel it's the end of the world because of a silly mistake or a bad presentation. Currently, the worst situation for me was just last year, my Junior year, where everyone in the Finance Academy at my school had to get into groups (ughhh) and at the end of the school year all the groups had to give a presentation with their group to FPL. At the end, our presentations would be scored and ranked. 1st prize would be a $5,000 scholarship for EACH team member and 2nd & 3rd got some other gifts that I can't remember. Finding a group was, at first, one of the worst parts. I was picked last in my class and our group was the "bottom of the barrel" picks. Not to mention our team leader was a pot head and the rest of our team consisted of the laziest kid in class, another socially shy kid and me. But from there on, it was pretty smooth sailing. All we had to do was make spreadsheets and powerpoints/prezis/w.e. on the computers.

When it came time for us to do our presentation, I was pretty much freaking out. I was very shaky and stuttered over my words a lot. At the end of the 7 minutes we had to present, there was a 3 minute Q&A about our presentation. I decided to not just stand on the sideline and tried to answer a question. That was a mistake because I was still stuttering, shaking, sweating, etc. And apparently I was answering the question wrong too, because the team leader took over the question instead and said the exact opposite of what I was trying to say ::

When it was over though, I just wanted to crawl into a hole and die. After everyone was done presenting, we went to two of the classrooms to have lunch (which I couldn't eat anyways because I'm vegetarian and the lunch that was served was cold-cuts from Publix as well as some chips & cookies -which I did eat some of I also sat by myself during lunch because I, well, don't socialize well -of course. But right when we were getting ready to go back to the atrium, two of the guys from my class asked me how I think I did and I told them straight out that I thought we did horrible and came in last. They, apparently thought otherwise and said so, which made me feel a little better and the thought that they were sympathetic towards how nervous I felt (and probably looked).

When it was judging time, the 1st, 2nd & 3rd place teams were announced and handed their certificates & awards. All of us got a "participation certificate" (which really counts for nothing) and then those of us who had free periods (or just felt like skipping class) left to go home.

Oh and my worst fear was false. Our team didn't come in last, or even 2nd to last! We came in 3rd to last, 17th out of 19 teams. Not anywhere near good, but it's still not last But now I also have a DVD of the worst 10 minutes of my life -hopefully burried somewhere in the disaster that is my room.

And that story was way longer than I thought it would be ">.>

 

[scoobycrawler]

everyday of highschool was bad experience

 

[El_Pajaro]

the worst I felt was when I was going to class and my "friend" was with some of his friends...my "friend" was silly and he just said hi, but the a-hole he was with tried to pet my hair like I was some kind of dog. I slapped his arm away because he wasnt gonna touch me. Then he called me a dyke. I'm not a lesbian and I never had a problem with that guy before...so I didn't understand why he would attack me. It really was the worst.

 

[crusaderwithgreeneyes]

No worries dude. we all don't know what stuff means. XD
No need to feel humiliated. Just laugh. and move on. It was hilarious, but I don't see you as a loser. It's normal. guys will try to mess with yeah. because there pricks. C:

 

[WeirdyMcGee]

The problem is thinking of one that's actually funny and not just sad...
hm...

Here's one that's kind of funny and happy, I think! (and not really bad-- but all of my bad ones don't have any funny aspects to them -__- so I won't share those.)
XD
I was in the art room with a couple of other stragglers on exam day- after the written exam; to finish/improve our final art pieces.
The art teacher; for as long as I could remember him- was severely depressed. When I was only in grade 9- in his art class, I remember that he found his best friend's corpse after a freak accident... and he just wasn't the same after that. He was always cold and sad for all the years I had him as my art teacher.
This day was different though!
I'd look up from my canvas and see him sitting at his desk, grinning to himself.
It was weird... he never grinned like that!
Finally, I went over to his desk to ask him what was going on.
He looked up at me and smiled, saying; "I've suddenly had an epiphany!"
The other stragglers looked up as well, wondering what he meant.
"I think I'm going to be okay now. I feel good-- normal. The best I've felt in years!"
We couldn't help but think that he was maybe a bit unbalanced... maybe he took too many uppers? But at the same time, we were all pretty excited for him.
He got out of his chair suddenly and asked each of us what we wanted from the cafeteria, because he was treating us to a snack.
XD
And we all celebrated and pat him on the back.

As far as I know, he's been a much more positive person in general since I graduated school. He still teaches; he's traveled around a bit, he and his wife had another baby--- although it was strange that he suddenly just felt better; I guess some people would see it as a miracle.
Some teachers are hard-a$$es. Some teachers are awesome. He was one of those teachers I would never forget as the awesome teacher who was also pretty strict--- but great to his students nonetheless.


Why was it a bad experience for me?
It was really awkward... I was confused, actually- when he first told me.
ALSO-- his written exams in art history were always KILLER!
That year it took most of the kids in the class the entire 3 hour time limit to write it. -___-
The exam was 18 pages long and included 12 mini essay questions. lol
I never ever had another exam that rough- especially not in college. Exams were a piece of cake then! haha

That was an overall good day though, I think.
It was raining all morning but it cleared up after his epiphany; so the hour walk home was nice!
Life is strange.

 

[BleedTheFreak]

There were plenty of specific incidents, but the worst for me on a day to day basis was gym. Gym was on my mind all day until it was over, I dreaded it and often didn't turn up, which was ironic since as a kid in elementary school gym was the best thing ever. Basically, our gym class was 30 minutes of us being let loose and given basketballs, volleyballs, weights, jump rope, etc. while the teacher just stood around and watched us. Our grade was based on participation, and I'd never do anything. The other guys would never let me play even if I asked (which I never would) and I'd look too stupid to try jumping rope, so I'd either grab some weights and stand in a corner by myself (where I'd often get pegged by a ball) or hide in the bathroom. It was especially bad one term in freshman year because there was one kid who loved to give me problems, so I'd do my best to hide from him. I think the teachers felt bad for me though, because I never failed even though I probably deserved it.

High school in general was like that though, I guess in gym I just felt more...open to attack, I don't know why. I guess because we were basically allowed to do and say anything, so I was always paranoid.

I was so happy for the two terms that I was able to take a health class for a gym credit...

 

[Cynicalloner]

Although I only went to high school for two years the worst experience I had in it was this one day I went(at this time I had my hair in cornrows) and it was going a normal day get made fun of for whatever reason sleep through class etc. etc. then someone noticed that one of my braids was coming out and that it looked weird this was the first time this situation had ever arisen so I started asking what should I do about it. They said "just take the braids out it's already coming out it looks worse that way" or whatever so I started taking out the braid and after that I hear "you gotta take out the rest now so it doesn't look uneven" still not sure what to do I just listened and during lunch went to the bathroom for nearly the whole period standing there taking out my braids then I noticed how amazingly wild my hair looked and decided to have my hood as much as possible since there was only about an hour left until I could go home and while I was in lunch one of the people I say with wound up taking off my hood after asking why I had been in the bathroom for so long and him along with many other people I"m sure (I could feel all their eyes just staring at my insane hairdo and laughing at me so I just put my head down and put my hood back on until it was time to go to my last class and there I had to take my hood off and I got made fun of there too so I just put my head down and tried to forget the whole thing ever happened. I've had more embarrassing moments than that but they were mostly in elementary or middle school and like I said I was only in high school for two years so sorry if this doesn't seem deserving of being posted not much other things this bad happened to me during that time. At least in my opinion...

 

[GhoulsNightOut]

High school in general was just horrible but the worst part of it was the teachers who constantly picked on me. There was one teacher in history class who never taught a damn thing! He would just pick on students to read out loud from the textbook and for some reason he always picked on me to read first (he wasn't going in alphabetical order or anything). Since I got nervous and just wanted to get it over with, I would read really quickly and some of the students laughed at me. He would also tell me to explain some things which he didn't ask any of the other students to do! *******!

My algebra2/trig teacher would pick on students too but he seemed to pick more on the boys. Still...he would make anyone feel stupid for getting an answer wrong and yell at them.

There were a few more but I don't remember at the moment...but I hate those 2 teachers the most because they gave me the most anxiety everyday.

 

[JamesSmith]

I went to military school, so believe me, I've seen teachers bully students. Since I was a good student and didn't say dumb things out loud in class, I managed to avoid teacher-to-student bullying. The school i went to was private, so teachers were swearing and putting down students when they felt like it. I kind of see why they did that, it was a way to show authority and take charge of misfits.

My worst experience in high school was taking open showers, one of the many negative things about going to a military school. Hearing snickers from your peers is not a pleasant thing to hear when you have nothing on.

 

[GhoulsNightOut]

My worst experience in high school was taking open showers, one of the many negative things about going to a military school. Hearing snickers from your peers is not a pleasant thing to hear when you have nothing on.

Yikes...yeah that's one of the things I'm glad we weren't forced to do. My high school had open showers too but no one used them except for a quick rinse after swimming. Would it be too much for schools to set up shower stalls??? :\

 

[ILovePocky]

High school was hell for me. I'm really surprised I managed to graduate. There's a lot of incidents I could write about but I don't want to re-live most of them.

I'd say one of the most embarrassing for me was during lunch sophomore year. All of my friends had different lunch hours so I ended up sitting alone (Not that I minded, sure it was lonely but I had music to listen to so I could zone out)
But a group of nice seniors asked me to sit with them. So I did, but I could never contribute to their conversation. I sat at their table for the rest of the year because I didn't want to seem rude, but I could never talk to them. I'm sure they thought I was a weirdo, but I just didn't know how to speak up.
That and dropping out of Driver's Education because I couldn't handle.
It's so stupid >.<

 

[Rose_Red]

Everyday of highschool was pure hell, but primary and intermediate school was to.
I couldn't take it, so now I home school myself.

One experience I am up for sharing happened about is my photography class.
This is probably one of the more embarrasing experiences, but not my worst by far.
My teacher would belittle me, by humilating me infront of the class and asking if I was retarded.

About August we had to critique each others boards.
When we critiqued one anothers work, we got question cards and we had to critique depending on the cards. Normally I got a card that said what you liked about the person's board, until I got a more complex one that asked about the concept and ways to further develop their ideas.. I didn't understand it and wasn't confident in my photography skills enough to give a critique like that.
I kept passing when it was my turn to give my opinion but then the teacher told me I had to stop passing and I had to answer my question card.
By the time it was my turn again she told me I'm not passing and everyone will stay here until I've said something.
The board that had to be critiqued was of one of the top students.. and I felt intimated to answer.
I sat there just staring at the board trying to think of something to say.
Music was playing in the background, which didn't help at all. I sat there for 15 minutes and it was pure silence except for the music.
Finally someone said, 'Well, this is completely awkward', and then my teacher was telling me to hurry up and say something. I said I couldn't, and I asked if I could have another card and she said no.
I sat silent for another 5 minutes when the teacher started accusing me of being retarded again.
I stormed out of class crying, luckily the bell had gone for interval not soon after.
After that class, instead of going into photography, I would lock myself in the bathroom until the class was over.

 

[LonelyWonders]

Shoulda pointed at a girls. Make them yours But ya that does sound like a terrible situation :\. Hate when things like that happen. Teachers are just horrible sometimes.

 

[NewtoThis]

Ugh, I have too many to count, and reading this forum just reminds me of more! I remember sitting alone at lunch for a while until I was acquainted with enough groups to sort of rotate among them during lunches (I sort of rotated around the groups because I wasn't really friends with any of them but I didn't want to sit alone because this one guy would always go up to me and tease me about going out with him).

Anyhow- I remember one day I asked one of the girls sitting in the hall if I could sit with them and she said, "Why should I let you sit with us, we're obviously not your 'main' group."

I totally had no idea how to react to that. Finally somebody laughed and I sat with them anyways but I didn't really say much after that...

Sorry to take up a whole page!

 

[Metal_isthe_Answer]

My worst may have to be a time I just snapped at someone, basically what happened was while the basketball team was practicing, the rest of us didnt really do anything. I was just drawing and wasting time while they practiced, someone came up to me and started mocking me, so I threw a chair at him....which landed on the brand new gym floor in the brand new high school that was less than a semester old.
My vest experience was giving a speech, no one would be quiet and let me start, so I slammed my fist down and yelled "HEY!!" at the top of my lungs, everyone shut up real fast

 

[nicole1]

Sitting in assemblies. I can remember feeling shakey sitting in that big room....full of folks I didn't like... Yea.