Year 11 Leavers - Will you miss school?

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School only got better for me around Year 10.
But it got so much better for me, to the point that I'll miss it.

My school mixed the year groups together and I met lots of awesome people, and lessons I will particularly miss is all the Science lessons, sometimes in Chemistry, since it was last lesson on a Friday, my teacher would let us chill and put on some music.

Year 11 has been great so far, and I'm not looking forward to Year 12, but then again, I said that about Year 11, and Year 7. Year 7 was pretty enjoyable.

Reply 81

JANOS SLYNT

Original post by Jack182

Everyone who says they won't miss school is either lying to try and sound cool, or don't understand how school is the best time of your life.

I said I would never miss school, how could I? Crap food, forced to do subjects I have no interest in, crappy teachers, what is TO LIKE?

And then I went to work, now in uni and realize, like my sister, brother, mother, father and EVERY adult in my life told me while i was at school, "School is the best time of your life I promise you" They were RIGHT. I never believed them, but they were so right. School is the best time of your life, and you won't realize it for 5 maybe 10 years.

Welcome to the real world now! :smile:

what about people who were bullied at school how could it be good for them for me personally uni was much better

Reply 82

829384756

Original post by JANOS SLYNT

what about people who were bullied at school how could it be good for them for me personally uni was much better

Personally I find it ludicrous that people can find school better than university.
There are practically no rules (like who the **** gets detention in university for having an ear ring), you don't have to wear uniform, far better social opportunities, study one subject you actually like, longer holidays.
The list goes on and on.
Also, at least university will be interesting. You get lectures. For the week before study leave I stopped going in at all because we do bugger all work some days and even so it's all pointless. You could sit at home all day and get ten times the amount of work done.
E.g. In Biology we go in, we open up the relevant page in the AQA Biology text book, and we take notes on it for the whole period.
Can be done at home, enough said.
At uni you get lectured on cutting edge research by experts rather than teachers.

Reply 83

JANOS SLYNT

Original post by Shane Webb

agree with every point being at uni was probably the best time of my life made great friends and by 2nd/3rd year i would just stay in my uni city during the holidays because i enjoyed it so much here (i went to uni in london and im from a small town in the north) i dont know about you but my uni friends became my main friends over the ones back in my hometown and when i graduated i got graduate job in the city were i spent the past 4 years of my life in even thou it is london.

Reply 84

JessThomas6

I'm sad that my year is changing (my year was pretty decent really, especially in year 10&11) but I'm hopefully going back for sixth form so it won't be too bad

Reply 85

katebeckett

Haha not at all but I will miss some of my friends I guess

Reply 86

Deal with it

lol no I'll be happy to leave :biggrin:

(edited 8 years ago)

nope

Although at the moment all I say is that I hate school.
I think I will miss queuing up for lunch, annoying pointless rules.
Although sixth form has been pretty stressful. Im also defiantly not going to miss the small amount of freedom we have.

Reply 89

sagzy22

I really miss school.The days were you could actually leave your work till last minute and still pass

Reply 90

AgnesWeasley

I left school 2 years ago and I don't miss a single s*** about it

Reply 91

James1906

Even though there may be times you don't think it, I'd say school days are probably some of the best days of your life.

It depends on the person and their school experience though I suppose.

Reply 92

SecretDuck

As I graduate from uni, I'm looking back at my school days. So here's what I miss and don't miss from school.

What I miss:
-All the random things which happened in class. Seriously, in uni, you can't exactly get told off by a teacher by saying "Ex-squeeze me!" instead of "Excuse me!", have someone get sent out of class and watch him do funny faces and a jiggy or having a gooey alien stuck on the ceiling. Maybe the third one, but less random stuff happened at uni in general.
-Compulsory PE. I know that there are at least some of you who will probably say to me that it's a crap thing to miss, but it's something that I took for granted. The lovely fresh air and becoming a mud monster by playing football - those were the days. :moon:

-Community. Uni is very much divided and you can't know most of them. While at school, you're more likely to get to know more people by just bumping into them.
-The annual bazaar sale where everyone was involved.

What I don't miss:
-Wet breaks. Whoever thinks that it's better for people to **** about in a stuffy old classroom and throw stuff all over the floor rather than not allowing a little bit of rain stop people from having fun outside, needs to think again. Seriously, what is the point of wet breaks?
-Being forced to play football when it's icy. I liked compulsory PE most of the time, but when it fricking snowed and the field was completely covered in slippery snow, that was something I didn't look forward to. Health hazard just waiting to happen.
-The 4 subjects of homework a day. I had less homework to do in uni than I ever did in school.
-While it was funny to see other people's grammar corrected, it wasn't funny when my grammar was corrected. Still, hearing that "if you don't want to be squeezed, you don't say ex-squeeze me" never fails to make me laugh.
-The traffic, oh God, the traffic.
-Still happens in adult swim class to this day, but being the only one in a speedo while every other guy is wearing baggy shorts. Just begs belief.

I think that's all of them.

Reply 93

moltrol

So, I finished year 11 last year, and as the majority of my friends were staying at the same sixth form and as was I, we decided that it wouldn't be any different and everything would stay the same. Well, we were wrong for the most part. Sixth form is so stressful. Most bits of free time you have, you seem to work all the time, and even at breaks and lunch, you think you'll sit and have a laugh with your friends, like the last 5 years. Well, in reality, we talk about how difficult we find the work and what we'll do if we don't pass exams. We basically worry all the time.
I miss years 7-11 so much. The naivety that I had back then and how I always said I hated it- how I'd do anything to be back at that point now. Sixth form can be good, if you keep up on work and stuff. People are less bitchy, worry less about popularity and just get on with one another. The teachers treat you as an adult too, FINALLY!
But I will miss the lack of stress, the messing about in lessons, not having to worry about what the future holds, and just being able to have a laugh and socialise with my friends in a relaxed atmosphere.
A word of advice to people still at school, enjoy it and make as many happy memories as possible whilst developing into your own person.
Luckily, I do have happy memories of previous years and for that I am grateful and I will cherish those memories forever :frown:

Hopefully, I will make new friends at uni and keep my old ones too, whilst making more memories that I will fondly look back on in years to come.

Reply 94

Eat_revision

Original post by Jack182

Its not really for those people who been bullied for 5 years, teachers who treated the quiet, good student like crap and were joking and easy going with those bad boy types, going to school not learning anything and ending up with rubbish GCSE grades. Although my time in college is stressful it is no where near as crap as it was in 5 years of school. Atleast now I have my freedom and independence in college; well except for the fact that my mums going to kick me out the house if I flop my exams.

Reply 95

Katty3

I think I'll miss the 6th form I'm in now, but I won't miss the school I was at. I loathed just about every second of it. I had just about the most negative experience you could possibly have, but 6th form has been great.

Reply 96

829384756

Original post by JANOS SLYNT

Considering I'm in lower 6th, I must have some stuff right considering I haven't even been to university.
One thing I hate at school that I won't miss is just how far they actually go to try and control your life; they make you wear uniforms, they hand out detentions.
I really hate wearing uniform, and it's probably the thing I hate most about school. I find it incredibly uncomfortable. But it just really pisses me off that when I go back to school in September, I'll be 18, and a legal adult. So excuse me if I am pissed off by the fact that I'll be dressed exactly the same way I was dressed when I was 11 with a pompous looking badge.
For my geography exam on Friday I didn't come into school in uniform for it, despite the fact the Upper 6ths can come in wearing whatever they please for exams. As a result, I have been promised a detention first week back in September by my head of year.
Talk about let bygones be bygones.
At university; there is no uniform. Enough said.

Yes

Yes, I am going to be staying at my school for sixth form. But, I will jot miss the school, I will miss some of the people I have met in school.

Reply 99

Birkenhead

I miss my first school.

Everyone said I would miss my secondary school in time. A few years on and there is not a single element of that godforsaken place that I am nostalgic about.