What is one of your worst memories of school.

[ccharles000]

Here is mine. When I as in 9th grade this guy kept calling me fag and after two weeks after that he threatened to beat me up and I quite school. I do not even know how he knew I was gay as I was out to no one. I am now getting my GED.

[Droopy]

1. I'm glad you are getting your education now

I had a really tough time in elementary school. My folks had just went through a terrible divorce and my mom was working second shift and I guess I didn't get to see her enough when I really needed to. One day I refused to go to school. She was really angry with me and put me in the car and drove me there. I wouldn't get out of the car and she walked around and opened the door. I was crying my heart out and all these little kids were staring at me. All I wanted to do was spend some time with my mom. It was terrible.

[WinkyDink]

2. {{ccharles000}} Stay on course.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. 6th grade... I don't know how I made it through that year...

I was picked on 180 school days straight...

[Radical Activist]

4. So many to choose from.

Most involved some form of public humiliation by a teacher.

[hfojvt]

5. that does not sound so bad

I went through various phases when people were on my case for one reason or other. Usually they get over it after a while and move on to other things. Once in the 8th grade, this guy I knew since grade school wanted to copy my science paper. We were in the same group in Industrial Arts, a class I had no love for. So then he and another guy in our group were hassling me for several weeks or months.

My little brother and another two brothers from a family in our neighborhood seemed to get beat up daily or weekly for years.

[HEyHEY]

6. Failing despite trying.

I was thirteen, just finished summer school, actually tried hard to pass math and on the bus ride home opened my grade and saw I had failed. It was hard holding in the tears.

[LeftyMom]

7. Middle school.

I was teased for everything under the sun- my lack of a figure, being too smart, not having enough money, not having a boyfriend, having the wrong boyfriend, wearing my hair the wrong way, and on and on...

Weirdly, I went to high school with almost all of the same kids, and nobody gave me much shit.

[Blue Diadem]

8. Jr. High,

I was teased a lot and became very self conscious. My Dad had gotten meaner and didn't like my hair style(He'd say he didn't want a slut for a daughter) so he'd hold me down and cut my hair. I had bangs back to my ears and they were way too short. One boy began calling me Captain Kangaroo and it never stopped.

My 8th grade year I won the outstanding student award. My Mom said the teachers felt sorry for me, my Dad said I could tell my friends they didn't have to waste their money on buying some trophy to try to make me look like something I wasn't. He said they'd never convince him. I couldn't bring myself to ask him what friends..since I had none.


I'm glad you're getting your GED.

[ccharles000]

9. ...

:hug:

[Blue Diadem]

12. .

:hug:

[JVS]

10. I only got a perfect in the math section of the SAT! I was devastated!

I knew I had let Papa down! Me with my imperfect verbal score!
:cry:

[Swede]

11. My cousin Gil got killed in a car accident when I was in grade 9.

It was a terrible time.

[Pool Hall Ace]

13. Junior High School -- being told I was ugly on a daily basis.

It was especially bad the last year. My father was terminally ill, and my mother didn't want me to tell anyone. I had to put up with so much grief from the boys who would pick on me because I didn't meet their beauty standard.

I remember seeing the ad for Calvert School in the back of National Geographic magazine. I just wanted to be home-schooled so I could learn without putting up with any of the nonsense.

:hug:

[sniffa]

14. Too many, I'd say

Getting my ass kicked (and nose crushed into dust) was bad, but the pariah I became for most of my Sophomore year because of it hurt.

Being constantly called whigger, and even the n-bomb as I roamed the halls.

Getting arrested the second time (the first time I thought it was no big deal, and kinda cool).

I'm sorry you had to go through that. :hug:

[terrya]

15. I got called faggot a lot.

Being gay in a hostile environment is horrible.

I'm so glad you're continuing your education. :thumbsup: