Are school days best days of your life

Dahecall

I'm in secondary schoo now. Every older person are constantly telling me these are the best days of your life. Now obviously I can't know whether this is true or not as I've never experienced anything else. I understand why people say this. We spend the day hanging around with our friends having the craic while also not having a worry in the world ( not doing lc this year ). I was wondering whether this statement is true in regard to your life.

Sunnyisland

Nope not for me.

r3nu4l

Not on your life! School was an absolute bore for me. Hated every minute of it. Got to University and they were the very best days of my life...until my daughter was born and every day since then has been the best day of my life

Prodgey

College is better.

wretcheddomain

Prodgey wrote: »

College is better.

University even better than mere IT's and Colleges.

Eoin247

If you're lucky enough to as you said ''not have a worry in the world'', then yes they probably are the best days. For me my LC days and beyond are better than my pre-LC days in general.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

wretcheddomain wrote: »

University even better than mere IT's and Colleges.

A University is a college or a number of constituent colleges!
Which Irish University do you think ranks above TCD? (Trinity College Dublin)
Obviously you never made it to 3rd level!

Conmaicne Mara

Hell no.

frag420

Weekends are way better!!!

grimm2005

I'm a couple of years out of college and so far I would say definitely college, not school. so yeah, go to college, increased job opportunities and a massive amount of craic, it's win-win

Talib Fiasco

College is better than school, but neither are the best days of your life.

dundalkfc10

grimm2005 wrote: »

I'm a couple of years out of college and so far I would say definitely college, not school. so yeah, go to college, increased job opportunities and a massive amount of craic, it's win-win

Not in Ireland anyway

Unearthly

Primary was great, Secondary was terrible, College was great, work is mehhh

I'd vote college overall

Shanotheslayer

I'd love to go back to school. Hated it at the time. Got in with wrong crowd and started smoking etc etc. But I just wanted to my own thing which was game and play sports. Now it's work bills etc etc

TheMilkyPirate

Never went to college because I hated school so much I left when I was 15 so I can't speak for college.

But school, No they are not the best days of your life, Not by a long long shot.

Fucking shithole.

AgileMyth

wretcheddomain wrote: »

University even better than mere IT's and Colleges.

But you have to deal with people with opinions like this on a day to day basis. IT's are winning this one hands down.

Pang

The last two years of primary school for me were amazing! I had the Master and he was very old school. Believed in having us out gardening and looking after ducks while also teaching us basic algebra and the modh coinniollach.

Best well rounded education I ever received in school.

College was amazing as well! Join every society you can!

Son Of A Vidic

Gavinmcgirl wrote: »

Are school days best days of your life

No, but my Uni years in London certainly were.

Wompa1

28 years old and working. I'm enjoy right now.

Primary - meh, Secondary - terrible, College - meh

Spent a lot of primary in fear due to the teachers smacking the crap out of us. Hated everything about Secondary school. Worked a lot during college, so between work, exams, lectures etc. it was very draining. The 6 weeks I spent unemployed whilst in college (in between jobs) was the best time of my life but more because I wasn't working.

Cold Chocolate

Gavinmcgirl wrote: »

I'm in secondary schoo now. Every older person are constantly telling me these are the best days of your life. Now obviously I can't know whether this is true or not as I've never experienced anything else. I understand why people say this. We spend the day hanging around with our friends having the craic while also not having a worry in the world ( not doing lc this year ). I was wondering whether this statement is true in regard to your life.

If you live a crap life then yes.

AtomicHorror

Gavinmcgirl wrote: »

I'm in secondary schoo now. Every older person are constantly telling me these are the best days of your life. Now obviously I can't know whether this is true or not as I've never experienced anything else. I understand why people say this. We spend the day hanging around with our friends having the craic while also not having a worry in the world ( not doing lc this year ). I was wondering whether this statement is true in regard to your life.

I'm sure it's true for a small minority of people who manage to integrate well into places like prisons and/or can befriend nerd, jock and sociopath alike, but I think the poll confirms that most people find life a lot better once they leave school.

Third level is another story entirely- even for a social train wreck like me, university was a great experience.

Greenmachine

Personally I hated school. I feel a lot better about college. Had an awesome 4 years in a great job.

AtomicHorror

Wompa1 wrote: »

28 years old and working...
...Spent a lot of primary in fear due to the teachers smacking the crap out of us.

In Ireland? In the 90's? Where?

wp_rathead

Primary was great laugh
Secondary was boring - good friends but incredibaly boring
College was great craic but no money
Working now and is great, have few bob to able go on weekends away and eat decently

I'd vote work - but mainly because i like my job which helps

FizzleSticks

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Santa Cruz

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Never went to college because I hated school so much I left when I was 15 so I can't speak for college.

But school, No they are not the best days of your life, Not by a long long shot.

Fucking shithole.

I really value you your opinion.

Santa Cruz

Wompa1 wrote: »

28 years old and working. I'm enjoy right now.

Primary - meh, Secondary - terrible, College - meh

Spent a lot of primary in fear due to the teachers smacking the crap out of us. Hated everything about Secondary school. Worked a lot during college, so between work, exams, lectures etc. it was very draining. The 6 weeks I spent unemployed whilst in college (in between jobs) was the best time of my life but more because I wasn't working.

You have been watching too many 1940s documentaries.

coffeelover

Primary - meh
Secondary - terrible expect for LC year. Had such a great year.
College - terrible

NegativeCreep

Loved school but college is far, far better! Less rules and more fun. Great craic altogether.

JenEffy

Nope. I hated school. Unless you have tons of friends, are good at studying and are a morning person, school is awful.

Vito Corleone

Primary- meh
Secondary- meh
College- meh

renraw

Having teachers throw dusters in your general direction! Nah!

frozenfrozen

I'm in college now and its just as meh as primary and secondary. I hope this isn't the highlight of my life.. I'll only be 23 by the time im out... and i expect to live to at least 113 years old

burrenguy

i'm in school now too.
It's okay.

emeraldstar

Jesus, no.

tosspot15

Absolutely hated primary and secondary school. Glad to see the back of it.

RayM

no

I really enjoyed the last two years of secondary school. All the idiots and troublemakers either left or were 'asked' to leave in fourth year, so there was a much nicer atmosphere. Everyone got along really well and because we had a reputation for being really well behaved, we could kind of get away with anything. It was great - being treated like adults, but with none of the responsibilities.

certifiedcrepe

The people that I personally know that had a great time in secondary school was because they had their groups, all very "hope ur ok hun" type of people.

I hated school, but university so far has been a great experience.

Galwayguy35

Best day was the day I left the place.

The 13 years in school felt like a lifetime, the 21 years since I left seem to have gone a lot quicker.

musicfan1ie

I enjoyed school, probably because I played a lot of sport. Also, school wasn't overly strict on homework, so it left me with a lot of free evenings. Obviously, I did some study, but not to the level of other schools. I couldn't believe some of the stuff I heard when I got to college.

But, uni was great. No stress, great life chilling out and learning some interesting new stuff. I loved it. But, then I always had a relaxed attitude about exams - as in I never saw them as life ending. I'd work hard and then, give the exam my best shot. If it worked out, then great. If not, I couldn't have done anymore.

zcorpian88

Primary - Had my good days and bad days, did hate PE and the way GAA was treated as a religion that you MUST DO! Bloody hurling with no helmets from 3rd to 5th class, pointless thing to play if you weren't playing on an extra curricular outside school team. Culchie dickhead of a teacher barking at us from the sideline, Don't know how many times I wanted to tell him to "F**k Off" yes as a 9 -11 year old that's what I thought. Also got the impression that the hurlers/sporty people got a way easier go of it and were favoured over the rest of the class. Got an easier punishment if they misbehaved in class. Going by what I remember I was the only one to notice it!

Secondary - Christ, what a kip! My folks put my name in for the CBS but apparently at the time (2002) you couldn't get in if your father or a brother didn't go there. My Dad didn't and I have no brothers so I ended up being stuck in a vocational school, the worst school in the town! It was more of a lunatic asylum than a school with the shyte that went on in there! On the day I left in 2007 I was glad to see the back of it. The teachers were sound but the disciplinary policy was non-existent, students just ran amuck and did what they wanted. It was a real eye opener going from what was a fairly strict primary school into that place let me tell you.

Whenever I talk to anyone about secondary school, mostly fellas I would talk to, they all seem to have had a really good, positive, fun time in secondary school. I'm actually jealous of them as I feel I was robbed of it as in my school you would really have to become a bloody nutter, thug, drug addict or general disrespectful arsehole that disrupts the class constantly in order to fit in, which I refused to do, so pretty much everybody made school life difficult during that time.

When I talk to most females though their account was quite bad, those convent schools are meant to be awful for bullying and whatnot.

LoonyLovegood

I hated school. I was badly bullied in primary and in my first secondary school. Liked the second secondary school I was in, but at that stage I'd hated school so much it didn't really help. College has been a mixed bag so far, overall it's grand. But if these have been the best days of my life I'm going to have a crap life!

Wacker The Attacker

Your late teens and early twenties are the best days of your life. All the good stuff in life is new and you dont have the bad sh1t on your plate yet.

Green Giant

no

Not too sure if I'd call them the best of my life, but I do appreciate them more and more with the passing of time

I Heart Internet

It's pretty good from the point of view of having no real responsibilities.

3rd level could be even better - no real responsibilites and a (small) bit of money to spend and loads of freedom.

I think early working days can be best. Work for a couple of years then take some time off to enjoy the world! That's if you can find a job!

Being responsible (earning a living, paying the rent, feeding your family) can be tough going - rewarding too as well of course. Enjoy the freedom while you can!

Sierra 117

My school days were the worst of my life. My life has been infinitely better since the moment I finished my final Leaving Cert exam.

gobnaitolunacy

Utter bollix from my point of view. National school was way worse than second level.
Had a weather beaten old crone of a teacher who still doled out corporal punishment and a little sh*te of a classmate who picked on me.