‘What are you still bitter about from school?’ – 21 people who aren’t buying that those days are the best of your life

12.

‘I was raised by my Mum and her female partner, who was very much my step-mum and who I love dearly. In my early years in the 90s there were a few occasions when my family drawings would mysteriously not make is up onto the display wall (thank you Section 28). Then I was in year five and we had to write a book about our lives and my teacher ‘advised’ me not to include anything about my step-mum incase people ‘found it odd’.

I will add I had heaps of friends, who gave not a single stuff that I had gay parents – they cared more that they were so welcoming and cooked lovely food for them! That wasn’t nice having my loving family invalidated and still makes me annoyed.’
–Madsaxmcginn

13.

‘I was just a kid, maybe five. Teacher asked me where do penguins live. I said Iceland (this is also a name for a UK supermarket) and he says to me ‘That’s a shop, not even a real place” and everyone laughed at me.’
–Historical_Visual629

14.

‘Dropping my abnormally large, and unfairly disadvantaged, egg in the egg and spoon race.’
–GuybrushFunkwood

15.

‘A fight broke out between two boys in the playground. I was like 10 meters away just eating a sandwich. A big crowd gathered around them egging them on. All I did was turn to face the commotion and keep eating my sandwich.

The teachers came and broke the fight up and took the boys away. Then a teacher stormed over to me, poked me with her boney finger and said “I saw what you did you horrible little girl, you should be in just as much trouble as those boys” then stormed off. I have no idea what she thought I did.’
–missuseme

16.

‘Teachers using quiet well behaved girls as sacrificial lambs to sit between groups of disruptive boys. As someone who wasn’t very bright but was keen to learn I had to prioritise fending off immature remarks because I was frequently placed as a buffer for assholes.’
–tigerbnny

17.

‘Year 4. We were winning the three legged race by a long way, only metres from the finish line the band tying our ankles together broke so we were disqualified and declared not the winners even though we kept our ankles together for the end of the race (because it wasn’t our fault the band broke and we were nine). Bitter to this day.’
–Due-Cryptographer57

18.

‘Boarding school breakfast. They had these massive 1m cube boxes of cornflakes. In the bottom was cornflake powder. If you were in the wrong place in the queue as the box was running out you’d get a bowl of cornflake powder. Cheap c**ts.’
–Isnt-It-500

19.

‘Getting an E in our IT classes and being told computers ‘weren’t for me’. Compsci degree and 13 years senior pentester (ethical hacker) with a hacking-related YouTube channel… Yes… Whatever.’
–sabretoothian

20.

‘I used to read a lot as a kid and at the age of 8 had a reading aged of 13. Started at a new school and my teacher asked me what level I was reading at, based on the colour code system. I pointed out that I had already exceeded that system and had been allowed to read whatever I liked at my previous school (I had already read The Hobbit for example). She huffed and selected a random book for me, then treated me like shit for the entire time I was at that school.’
–Goose-rider3000

21.

‘I spent most of year 11 in isolation because I refused to take out my earrings or dye my hair a normal colour. I remember one teacher saying I will never amount to anything if I can’t sort my attitude out, and no one will employ me with a lip ring. My argument was my hair nor piercings impact me learning and shouldn’t impact me getting work.

I’m 33 now, and a pink-haired, tattooed, pierced, college lecturer.’
–HanAVFC

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