What was your worst & best experiences in public school?

Question

I have thought of writing a book about the worst and best experiences people had in public schools. All I need are people to contribute stories for me to compile. No teachers names, no students names, no school name. Just the story. I do need to know what grade. Let me know what you want to be know as the name in the book and if you want the city and/or state You may remain anonymous. Thanks for your help with this. J.

Answer 1

You can't write the book if you've never had any personal experiences yourself. If you just put together other peoples' stories than its a compilation. Consumers will discredit your book automatically because you are "writing" about something you know nothing about since youve been homeschooled

Answer 2

I have two big problems with public school. Over crowding. Class sizes are too big and don't allow for any one on one or proper supervision. My daughters high school has 2500 students and 150 staff members. No wonder the kids are running out of control. The number of role models should out number the inexperienced children not the other way around. Teachers are hurried through subjects. For example: If you are working on a math lesson and still don't understand it completely there is no time for a review because it is time to move on to the next lesson. The student receives a poor grade but misses out on learning that lesson. Each student should be taught until all of the material is understood and learned. In some districts students are getting diplomas who can barely read and spell. Oh! I have one more. The school lunch sucks! Processed, prepackaged food is being served. Something similar to tv dinners. And to make a few extra bucks the school allows hostess and soda companies to put in snack cakes and vending machines. The lunch room looks more like QT or 7-eleven minus the lotto and beer. We spend millions on education and this is what it buys? I demand a refund!

Answer 3

My best experience was a teacher that I met. She was my sixth grade english teacher. She was awesome! Mrs. B was also a writer of children's scary stories, and would often tell them in class. She was a small, pale woman with red hair and looked spooky. When she told the stories in class, the students really got scared by them. She told a story during the first week of school that was based in the girl's locker room that made the girls want to stay away from there. It was so neat!

Fast forward 20 years, and Mrs. B no longer teaches, but she is a story teller. A friend and I went to see her at our local library and she actually knew who we were! That was a real testament to the kind of teacher she was. And during the reading, she told the story about the girl's locker room that scared my friend and I so badly back then. Just because she remembered us!


The worst experiences were many, but I'll stick with one. I remember my seventh grade year like it was yesterday. A gang of African American girls targeted my as their punching bag for no other reason than the fact that I was white. I didn't know these girls. I had never done anything to them. They just didn't like my skin color, so they took it out on me at least three times that year.

I tried to get a transfer to another school, but one's life being in danger isn't reason enough to transfer in the public school. That's just a matter of course. I was told to try to make friends with these girls. Now why would I want to make friends with people who did nothing but terrorize me? Forget it.

They finally left me alone, and moved on to another prey. But not before I was scarred physically and emotionally by them.

Answer 4

My worst experience in public school was every day that I went.
My best experience in public school was the day I graduated.
Oh, WAIT, that day SUCKED, too. That was when I found out I had won a scholarship from the state for my scores on the ACT, but my counselor hadn't told me about it, so I had already joined the military, thinking I wouldn't have any money for college.

Answer 5

In England public schools are private schools - because they are open to the public. Then there are State schools. Probably the worst thing in any school on a universal level is bullying. Everything from sexual abuse to physical abuse. the worse places for abuse are changing rooms, showers, (avoid like the plague) and bathrooms or toilets. Psychological abuse is also rife. I had the school bully great. He forgot a book and left it in the science lab. I followed him in and closed the door and started turning on gas taps. We have a gas added to our gas to make it smell really strong. it smelled like the lab was full of gas! lol Then he saw me and I started playing with a box of matches saying I was going to blow up the school. It cured him of bullying - well he didn't bully me again! lol That's psychological bullying - actually the real amount of gas was maybe 1 part in 10 million! lol

Answer 6

Before college, I only had one year of public education. I was eight at the time, and in 6th grade.
The people in charge there bumped me down to fourth grade, which, in retrospect, was the best part of the whole rotten year. My teacher in fourth grade was an honest man who appreciated the fact that I was advanced for my age. He bumped me up a grade, then went to the school board and exposed their deceit (which was too lengthy, complex, and painful to place here). After that, things went downhill.
I was bored out of my gourd in school. The science was, to my naive eye, baby stuff. We never did any writing. Math was dull and repetitive, and that was probably the start of my hatred for math today. Art was nonexistent. Spanish was okay, because the teacher and I had similar names and we actually got more complex stuff as the year wore on.
I had one friend outside of my brother that year, a boy from my church. He and I liked to talk during recess, which led to my classmates to believe that we had a romantic interest in one another. That wasn't true, but we dealt with it until they "married" us. That really made things miserable.
The most infuriating thing, though, was having to do science that I'd done ages ago. I was not a bold person, but for me fifth-grade teacher I made an exception. I told her point-blank that I wasn't going to do the work. When testing came around, I was knocked back to the third grade, where my slower math skills got me jeered. I knew the math, but it has never come easily to me at a moment's notice. My mother, to whom I'd promised a whole year of public school, deliberately told them I'd be sick during testing... and the week after that. Sick days ran rampant that year, sometimes true, as in the case of an allergic reaction on my part, and sometimes false. I hate that school to this day, and if word reached me that it was burned down, I'd rejoice.

Answer 7

I was the child everyone picked on unless it was games and I was the last child picked! I hated school! I wore the thick glasses and had a speech problem I was picked on about everything - I had extremely curly hair! I had no best experience in school!@

Answer 8

i didn't go to a public school, but i did go to a private catholic schools and my worst experience was going to a party with alcohol and everyone at the party got a saturday detention. i don't know about my best experience

Answer 9

Can't remember one.