School days. are they really the best of your life?

OldNotWIse · 06-06-2012 10:35AM

No. But I would go back given the choice so I could do things differently.

Jester252 · 06-06-2012 10:52AM

Nope some of the worst. A child puts in more hours of work a day then most adults

Ms.M · 06-06-2012 11:07AM

No.

I still have a good few of the same friends as I did in school but now we all have money. You could really feel the class-divide in school, some of my mates would be going to the cinema every weekend or the dreadful "Wesley", the rest of us enjoyed the occasional window-shop.

Life is generally pretty boring when you've no money.
School was the most interesting thing I did back then. Pretty sad.

Eve_Dublin · 06-06-2012 11:11AM

Worst days of my life so far. The best have been from the mid-twenties to now....

pearliefan · 06-06-2012 11:15AM

They were grand... 4th/5th Year (whichever you call the year before the Leaving) and Leaving Cert Year were the best of them but given the choice I wouldn't go back. College days are the best of your life! (so far for me anyway!)

Tefral · 06-06-2012 11:16AM

College days were the best for me! Worked 50 hrs a week around my college, had plenty of money to go out with the lads, had a car and no worries.

How life changes.. Now flying to and from London to work and trying to balance all that while maintaining a relationship.

Looking back, I never appreciated how good I had it.

Irish Guitarist · 06-06-2012 11:35AM

It was a nightmare from the very first day of school until I left. I would have been alright with the learning side of things; it was mixing with other children that was the problem.

When I started secondary school I was so desperate to fit in that I hung around with kids I hated. I knew these kids only hung around with me so they could laugh at me. It was either hang around with these idiots or stand around at break time on my own and get laughed at by the entire school for being a loser with no friends. In every class that my 'friends' were sitting behind me they would chew up balls of paper and spit them at the back of my head.

If that doesn't sound too bad I'm just using that as an example of how the kids I called my 'friends' treated me.

I left school as soon as I could. When I turned sixteen I waited until my summer holidays were over and did a FAS course. I knew deep down that I was ruining any future job prospects but if I had stayed in school any longer I honestly think I would have killed myself.

06-06-2012 11:38AM

Oh school and college, great days, best? maybe not, carefree DEFFO!!!!!

CruelCoin · 06-06-2012 11:39AM

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

Personally I dont agree too much. I think some people just remember the best parts. They conveniently forget the long boring days, the homework, detentions, or even bullying.

So what do ye think?

Anyone who says school was the time time of their lives, has never been to college....

kincsem · 06-06-2012 11:42AM

no

OldNotWIse · 06-06-2012 11:42AM

Vicar in a tutu wrote: »

Its worse when you squeeze your eyes shut then open them:pac:

hands up all those who just did this in front of their screen. My boss thinks I have a twitch

flutterflye · 06-06-2012 11:44AM

CruelCoin wrote: »

Anyone who says school was the time time of their lives, has never been to college....

I have, but as an adult with 2 kids and bills etc...
I tried chatting to the 18 year olds, but they were from a whole different planet as far as I could tell.
So I never really got the whole social experiences that go with college.
So school days remain the most fun and care free for me.

Herb Powell · 06-06-2012 11:46AM

If school days were your best..............then I feel sorry for you.

Nothingbetter2d · 06-06-2012 11:48AM

i rarely went into school during 5th and 6th year.... kinda wished i did now... but i went mitching quite often back then. but my 20's was a much better time in my life... partied like there was no tomorrow.... ah fun times

Nothingbetter2d · 06-06-2012 11:51AM

this one time at band camp..........

xflyer · 06-06-2012 11:58AM

Best days of my life? Not school. The fact that I have virtually blanked them from my memory says it all. The best days of my life were several summers while off from primary school when I got up in the morning and played all day and then went to bed. Then did it all again the next day and the next.

Apart from that there were a few weeks in 1989 and most of 1995.

af_thefragile · 06-06-2012 12:00PM

Well i had a great time in school when i was around 10yrs cuz it was before all the bullies and brand whores and "the cool kids" emerged. Once we all grew up it all went downhill pretty fast.

I wish i could say i had a great time in college but really i just couldn't fit in with the whole partying and boozing. For me college was about skipping classes, playing guitar and jamming along with other kids (which was one of the more fun bits), struggling with studies, gf worries ruining my studies, hating my class, failing my exams, having second thoughts why on earth i'm doing this course, but then towards these final couple of years i've become more focused and have been doing alrite. And at the end of it all i'll have to say i can't wait to finally graduate and get out of this college!

corkcity · 06-06-2012 12:10PM

would never go back NEVER
hated it from day 1.on the last day of 6th class i ran so fast out the door you could see the smoke .started in 1st year ,same **** .one thing i learned was to stand up for yourself ,some guy started on me so i hammered him,no one tried anyting for the next 6yrs.in 6th year i stopped goin to school in april,was a waste of time .in the end got a good leaving cert ,did not go to colledge and now have a well paid job .

stupidusername · 06-06-2012 12:20PM

I think adults tend to say that about school, because they're comparing it to the days they're living as adults, bills, work problems, annoying children, bla bla bla. It's really quite dismissive of the problems young people actually face.

For me school was the beginning of all the **** I still have to deal with, and was part cause for my self esteem issues. So no, I don't look back at school and wish I was back there.

bronte · 06-06-2012 12:26PM

God no! It's quite depressing to think they'd be the best days of a person's life.

I couldn't wait to get out of there.

06-06-2012 12:29PM

stupidusername wrote: »

I think adults tend to say that about school, because they're comparing it to the days they're living as adults, bills, work problems, annoying children, bla bla bla. It's really quite dismissive of the problems young people actually face.

For me school was the beginning of all the **** I still have to deal with, and was part cause for my self esteem issues. So no, I don't look back at school and wish I was back there.

99 problems and school aint one.

Bad Panda · 06-06-2012 12:31PM

No.

Just a different kind of 'good times'.

Sir Gallagher · 06-06-2012 12:43PM

Boards users are probably a bad sample group to ask this question.

JerryHandbag · 06-06-2012 12:48PM

When I think about my schooldays, I can only remember that Irish teacher who I'm convinced was a reincarnation of Hitler. So, no.

Now the college days, different matter entirely.

Penn · 06-06-2012 12:51PM

School was sh*t.

College was awesome. Independence. Money. Freedom. Alcohol. Responsibility.

I spent 5 years at college, each year was better than the year before.

Opticom · 06-06-2012 08:03PM

School in Ireland was always ****e.
A small world, populated by small minds, dominated by group think.
I didn't have a bad time at school, but looking back I wouldn't go back there for all the money in the world.
College was much better.
Emigration was the best of all.

steve9859 · 06-06-2012 08:29PM

stupidusername wrote: »

I think adults tend to say that about school, because they're comparing it to the days they're living as adults, bills, work problems, annoying children, bla bla bla.

I suspect that those adults have not spent enough time having a bit of craic.....so no wonder they think that. In my experience, the decade between 25 and 35 as a single (and occasionally coupled up) man, in Dublin and in London, were (and are) the best years of my life. Now I feel just about ready for the bills, work problems and annoying children! And the message to my kids will be "don't worry....it gets better"!!!

beks101 · 06-06-2012 08:38PM

Hells no. All girls school, cliques, peer pressure, insecurity, acne, ugly uniform, bitchy girls, archaic rules...among the worst days I would say.

Mid 20s is where it's at: just out of college, working in your first 'proper' job so having money to blow on yourself and your escapades without the worry of mortgage, kids and all that 'adult' stuff

Mr.Crinklewood · 06-06-2012 08:40PM

I loved school.

Vicar in a tutu · 06-06-2012 08:56PM

I didnt think it was too bad, homework was sh!te, the usual, but there were alot of great things that happened, the friends you made, the things you done that got you into sh!te with teachers that left you hysterical with laughter, I think 5th and 6th year were the best. You were nearing adulthood and had so many firsts, the feeling when you were nearing the end of your school life and you felt the world was your oyster! But I hope to god they werent the best days of my life! that would be totally depressing :pac:

School days. are they really the best of your life?

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