Rate your Primary school, Secondary and College experience.

I missed the first day and then never caught up

"School was the best days of my life" is probably the saddest eight words a person can ever say.

Primary school was grand, my mother was one of the teachers so I was expected to behave to a higher standard than everyone else.

Secondary school was grand, had some inspirational teachers. Still have some great friends, never understood the whole "single sex schools are bad" stuff I read on here, I got on grand with guys in school and the girls in the Convent.

Third level was grand the first two times, then I went a third time to study social care. It wasn't what I thought it would be at all and was more like a course in identity politics. I bailed after two years, I'd had enough.

I'll probably study something else, but honestly I'm not enamoured by the idea, probably do the Hibernia course, people are doing it like the ECDL to gain their teaching qualifications. I'll see what happens, but I would have no interest in actually becoming a teacher, I just enjoy education for education sake.

Primary: Liked the early years of it mainly. Towards the later years it was somewhat difficult because I was a bit of a nerd and this led to some mild degree of bullying but worse than that it led to me not really being myself at times in order to be more in with the crowd. It's hard to be very critical of myself looking back now though as I was so young and necessarily unsure of myself at the time. 6/10
Secondary: Secondary years were quite awful on the whole. Overbearing teachers and especially the principals and vice principals (they changed while I was there). Whoever was in charge of choosing the principal seemed to always opt for a disciplinarian rather than someone who would get on with students. Add to this teenage angst/attitude (which hit me like a f*cking train), and the fact that the school was plagued by suicides and it made for a rather unhappy time. I pulled a decent Leaving Cert in the end and the last few years weren't too bad but overall I would say it was a negative experience. 3/10
University: I'm in third year at university and it definitely exceeded my expectations. Ok, it maybe wasn't as party oriented as I may have thought but I got pretty tired of that after first year anyway. In my degree the hours are very manageable, the content is on the whole quite interesting, and the level of academic autonomy is liberating compared to a secondary school environment which stifles any creativity or personal input (except for English maybe). Overall, the last couple of years have been the best I've had, with some difficulties thrown in here and there. 8/10 overall.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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Overall I enjoyed my experience in secondary school. Teachers were sound enough and once you weren't disrespectful and the principal/vice were fine once you wore your uniform. Their was only really one strict teacher. One teacher wasn't very pleasant but he retired when I was in first year. School was fairly liberal and nothing was really mad a big deal of. Homework was fine in generally(apart from one teacher 1st-3rd). Their wasn't much bullying apart from the odd thing.
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Primary school was okay. Some teachers were a little over bearing but it was just a little clammy for me. Had great friends in primary school and their was great times tough.
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College for me was disappointing it might have being because I had such a good experience in secondary school. Lecturers were strict and were constantly nagging about attendance/assignments(Whilst saying this isn't school). The head of our year rang peoples parents regarding their attendance and other issues.(even when people supported themselves). I went to an all boys primary/secondary school(A few girls used attend classes in secondary) in college I had a mixed class and the amount of bullying from female students was unreal. It was directed at both male and female students. I always got the impression that college was meant to be a lot more relaxed and bullying didn't exist either because everybody was so mature.

How would you rate your experience in primary, secondary school and college?

I do not care. Why would you think that anyone would care?

freshpopcorn wrote: »

lawred2 wrote: »

Rate it against what?

It's fairly obvious to be honest.

Unless people went to multiple primary schools, secondary and third level institutions how are they supposed to rate anything? It's entirely context free

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Well at least those who actually read my opening post and got what was going on also had sense not to double post!

Clearly he went to a terrible school OP!

1. Primary(Mainly due not having any worries)
2. College
3. Secondary

1. Was a very nervous child and had a lot of anxiety. Got bullied a lot too. Overall fairly unpleasant.

2. Was determined that I'd never be bullied again and didn't luckily. First year was awkward trying to make new friends but from second year on it was great craic. A lot of fun times and good memories.

3. Best years of my life. Have never laughed so much and had so much fun. My final year was fairly stressful though and had a lot of work to do, still managed to sneak in the odd party though.