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46 Funny School Memes That Perfectly Capture Classroom Struggles (New Memes)
“School” is a divisive word that evokes only the best emotions in some but gives others a serious case of the heebie-jeebies. The most incredible part about school is that we get to be free from the bare realities of adult life; nobody assumes that we will conquer the world just yet. We’re expected to experience an unburdened existence, carefree.
However, it doesn't mean the honeymoon phase guarantees an easy ride. After all, nobody canceled all-nighters you’re likely to pull just to meet yet another last-minute deadline.
Whether you want to reminisce about bittersweet school memories or make a boring lesson pass a little faster, we gathered some of the funniest Reddit memes about school that every student, ex or current, is bound to find relatable.
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The Essay Paradox
I can't write an essay in more than one sitting. The whole paper has to be done at once.
This reminds me of speech class. I got up and just winged it for every speech I gave and got A's. However the final speech had required prep work and I got a C. Do what works for you.
During the night ny mind is actually more productive, so no teacher, i can absolutely write an essay during the night
Our final year 12 exam for English was 3 hours long and included two essays and about 10 short answer questions. I finished more than half an hour early and just chilled in the common room waiting for my friends to finish :)
Ah, yes, but it fully depends on whether you are hyperfocusing or not able to focus at all
Load More Replies...Never Raise Your Hand
Teachers do this because they know you know the answer they just want other people to try
But what about those of us who do NOT know the answer and don't want attention on us? I hated teachers who did that.
Load More Replies...I’ve literally only done this to students when they have answered at least three or so questions in a row correctly or offered thoughtful insight on subjective questions. I want to be able to give other students a chance to participate in class discussions!
Totally agree. Teaching is not communicating to 1 out of 30. Everyone in the class should feel like their voice is valid and important, because it is. The fact that the rest of the class doesn't have the bravado of the one that always speaks up is just sad. It is the thing that most teachers try to work through. Not that the one who speaks up is wrong, it's just sad that the rest don't feel as comfortable in speaking. This is said from the one that never wanted to speak up.
Load More Replies...This happened to me all of the time when I was a kid. I would raise my hand but the teacher would ignore me. Hurt my feelings.
in schoool i used to have a 504 accommodation where I was never called on or used as an example without raising my hand, and even then chances were slim. i genuinely had no idea and thought I was either incredibly lucky or wasn't a real kid
The Sweet Taste of Academic Royalty
Aged 12? We had to write a haiku, mine included the word batteries, but spelled as two syllables, how you might say the word quickly, next day I saw it on the blackboard, the teacher had copied it out, used the proper word batteries, then used it to explain pronunciation and poetic licence, corrected it to how I wrote it, used it as an example for all.
I had an art project in elementary and the teacher used it as an example and I was like okay, until she screamed that is was what not to do. I almost cried
This happened to me once. I was more embarrassed/blushing with praise but it was a nice moment. Not for my partner, though, who was being compared with me by the teacher.
Gandhi’s Wisdom on Learning and Life
Mahatma Gandhi, a widely respected spiritual leader, once offered this timeless wisdom: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” His profound words continue to hold meaning for many of us. It also reminds us that life is a perpetual learning and growth journey.
Formal education represents one of the many avenues for expanding our knowledge and honing the skills essential for navigating life’s complexities. When stepping out on our own, we are entrusted to educators who expand our understanding and nurture our abilities and values.
“It Hurts”
He didn't shout. He just calmly said, he was dissappointed. Much worse to me at that time.
Yeaaah! I hated it the first time my beloved theatre teachers and choreographers told us how upset they were with us. It was valid- we were three days before a show and some people were trying to miss rehearsal. When we had three days. But they looked so mad and upset, and told us they were very angry, but spoke so calmly. I felt so guilty even though I did nothing.
Load More Replies...Haha I am a total teachers pet so this is me when she says I do something wrong.
Learning from Family and Caregivers
We’re born into this world without a single droplet of knowledge, but we learn daily from our parents, siblings, grandparents, and those who participate in our upbringing.
With the loving guidance of our family and mentors, we gain the essential skills and knowledge to build a promising future. Ultimately, what is taught to us at an early age stays with us for the rest of our lives.
Stage Fear Is Real
I always made a point of volunteering bc I wanted to get it over with, I felt sorry for the avoiders, and I didn't care how I did.
Perception vs Reality
Sister facts too. Girls in grade 7 look just as young.
Load More Replies...In highschool it was always a running joke that the freshman got shorter every year.
The 6th graders at my school are so much shorter than I expected. They grow in reverse I swear
Load More Replies...I’m in 8th grade and apparently look like a 5-6th grader. 😅
I used to be dead afraid of fifth and sixth graders. Now they’re tiny children lol
“Where’s the Intelligent Life?”
Hey😢I’m in fifth grade and I get very good grades and I got a 5 on my fast.So don’t even
I showed this to my brother who is in 5th grade. He is mad now but i got the fun. 😅
I swear, in my school we are heavily divided into: - golden children that are very rich or pretend to be; - people who have a personal style for clothing that varies from rock/punk to something resembling lolita's to grunge and fairy, with the obvious presence of metal lovers and emos. I actually love seeing the different styles of the last category and the way others have to personalize their outfits, instead of copies of each other that are just showing off and think they are cooler than everyone else
and you see shoving and hear only dumb "skibidi skibidi..."
The First Day of School May Be Dreaded, But You’ll Miss It Later
It’s common to dread the first day of school; it doesn't matter if it’s your first year or you’re returning from an adventurous summer break. But have you ever stopped to think if it’s worth feeling this way?
School time is all about embracing the period and making the most of it because once you dive into the full-time grind, you might quickly find yourself with a few extra grey hairs, a worn-out mental state, and nothing but the cherished memories of your school days to keep you company.
Today, after all those years, most adults will probably agree that our carefree school days were the absolute best.
“Duh”
you're here because your mom would go to jail if you weren't :) you're here because we need more functional useful human beings :) not for your own benefit silly :D now sit up straight and be still :)
The "you're here because your mom would go to jail if you weren't" is the ONLY reason I still go to school
Load More Replies..."Schoolgirl" used to be an insult in my elementary school. It was like... literally what we were.
yeah the f4 you say i'm dumb maybe you are in this school becuz your live is not working and your brain.
“It Means Never”
The Impact of School Friendships on Our Life
Formal education has a magical way of enriching our social life. At school, we are surrounded by friends who often become lifelong companions. They are the reason we eagerly jump out of bed and hop onto that bus to sit together in a Science class.
In a 2000 study, the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine concluded that peer relationships in early childhood play a crucial role in shaping a child’s self-worth, social skills, and future behavior (1).
The research highlights the importance of stable peer interactions in fostering positive social behavior. It also points out that rejected children, particularly those who are aggressive, are at higher risk for behavioral problems later in life.
Maintaining friendships isn't always easy; you’re guaranteed to fall out with some of your school friends. Nevertheless, genuine friendships survive and are worth cherishing dearly.
Holy Ice
I remember the one time ice didn't help. My friend had injured her finger pretty badly during a game of "sidewalk hockey" during PE and had to go to the nurse. My friend was very much allergic to the bandaid adhesive (her nail was pulled up and bleeding) and her finger swelled up, she already had ice on it but the ice was making the swelling worse. She ended up having to go home and had to get her finger wrapped in gauze. And the nurse also KNEW she was allergic to bandaid adhesive but still put a bandaid on it anyways.
Load More Replies...In Portugal is tea. Headache? Tea! Bellyache? Tea! You sprained your ankle? Tea!
I had debilitating migraines as a kid. This was before they had so many different meds to take the edge off. My elementary school had a nurses office that had a little cot where they'd let you lay down until you got to feeling better. It was a bag of ice and cold rag every time. That is until the day she had to leave early for a family emergency and everyone else forgot I was in there. I came stumbling out at the dismissal bell after my mom came in looking for me because I didn't come out to be picked up with the rest of the kids that day.
I had classmates who either ate the ice or made a hole in the bottom to drink from it when it melted.
“Convincing the Teacher to Swap Work for Stories”
We had a supply teacher every so often. He kept horses. Bring horses up and he would talk about them forever. So we did, every lesson.
We had a supply reacher in middle school who dropped tbe curriculum completely to tell us all the myths of ancient Greece and draw amazingly detailed characters in chalk on the board. Even the difficult kids were really engaged with it. Loved that teacher!
Load More Replies...Our teacher was in love with the whole class and always planned party time or funny excursions 😆 quickly gave us some homework at the beginning of the lesson, then we had time to plan fun times. We didn't even have to get him there as he enjoyed spending leisure with us too! It's almost 30 yrs ago and we all graduated, despite many many parties! I believe we are still a legend because almost all classmates stuck together and we're still hanging out. Some of us just have had a nice evening at local funfair yesterday 🤜🏼🤛🏼
My legal studies teacher would give us the required work, but then we would have fun discussions and had pizza ordered to the class a few times. When we finished high school, a few of us kept in touch with him and went for coffee a couple of times.
Load More Replies...I had a college professor who would then write questions about the stories he told on the exam. We stopped distracting him.
My legal studies teacher did a similar thing, but it was a joke sheet. Once we filled that out he gave us the real exam. I think I still have mine :)
Load More Replies...I had several teacher that weren't qualified to teach but could tell stories better than Stephen King. And could get them sidetracked quicker than a meth addict into telling those stories.
We had a man who retired from teaching full time but would substitute on occasion. He served in the Navy in the South Pacific in WWII. A lot of times he would bring up how the lessons related to being in the war. For example " You needed to know your decimals during the war." Once this happened everyone would ask questions about the war and he would tell stories the rest of class that had nothing to do with the original lesson. We loved it!
Had a teacher that we would occasionally get side tracked for a whole class period. Everyone would work to keep him off topic asking questions about whatever issue would be irritating him. Years later I discovered that these same topics came up every year during this class. Even to the effect that witty comments that 'bright 'students might make were planned into the conversation.
Haha, this reminds me of a Finance teacher I had, if we would ask her about religion she would just starting talking about that for hours... Don't ask me what I learned there though, hahaha!
Double Standards
It's called common core math. It consists of at least ten extra steps that are unnecessary to solve the equation. They say the problem is wrong unless showing all 1,000 etc steps in. common core it's ridiculous. I can solve the same problem in three steps with an old school method.
Right? What purpose does it serve other than to confuse parents who were never taught that way
Load More Replies...The other day at my high school some kids were vaping in a bathroom and set off the fire alarm. The whole school evacuated and the fire department was called. The girls who did it were suspended.
I'm currently at home because some idiot wrote a bomb threat in the bathroom
Load More Replies..."No, I would like you to write this down, please." *grumble grumble*
My math teacher is pretty open to new ways to figure the problem out, so long as it works every time. She tries to give us the easiest ways to do it and will show us multiple ways and let us decide which one we want. And if we somehow figured out an even easier way, she would let us do that too.
The Power Move
Same , the priceless looks, where’s well……. Priceless
Load More Replies...I had a kid do this to me in the 8th grade. I went through a rebellious stage and had been getting into a ton of trouble. I was told by the principal with my mom present that if I got into any more trouble id be suspended for up to a week. That morning the kid beside me was aggravating me to death for no reason and I told him if didn't leave me the FCK alone I would knock the hell out of him. He immediately said he was telling raised his hand while the teachers back was turned. I panicked and before she could turn around I kept my promise and knocked the hell out of him. He started sniffling and the teacher asked what was wrong he told her what happened and I got a week long vacation from school. My mom and dad were pissed but I made them believe it was self defense. I'm in my 40s and just recently told them the truth about what happened. They were still pissed.
Was the other one even told off? My youngest would secretly nag his other brothers and when they kicked em, he called: mommy! So I sent the bozo kickers to their room, but they thought it was not fair and they had a point. I said: tell me if he nags you. Then I put him in the hall. So that worked great. No more kicking and nagging.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of when I was in 1st grade. I thought I would impress the girl sitting next to me by writing a curse word on my school supply box with a crayon. But when I showed it to her, she raised her hand and told the teacher, who confiscated my box. Later that day, when my mom came pick me up, she was shown the box. Afterward we went grocery shopping, and as punishment, my mom made me walk around in the store wearing the box on my head, much to my chagrin. Probably no one more than a few feet away was able to read the curse word, but in my mind it was like it was written in blazing, scarlet letters that everyone could see.
I did this one time to a few of my friends. We were play fighting, and I said “I’m telling!” And I walked over to the teacher to show her my work, and pointed at my table where my friend was and said, “I’m working there,” quiet enough so my friend din’t hear, and when the teacher walked over he screamed, “I didn’t do it!” and the teacher looked so confused. I did it again with another one of my friends another time, but he started crying instead… whoops!
School Mornings vs Sleepless Nights
This is the same problem with bedtime in general. You don't want to go to bed one second, you want to stay snoozing the next.
Dropping a Pencil Turns into an Adventure
And then you knock something over and make a big scene and wonder why you didn't just get up to get it.
I still can't understand why teachers made such a big deal out of stuff like dropping your pencil or needing to go to the bathroom. Like, I'm sorry I'm clumsy and have a balder the size of a walnut.
And its during a test and have to ask someone in front of you or next to you and get kicked out...good times :)
Chemistry Class
Replace "chemistry teacher" with "teacher of literally any subject" and that's me.
let me get a teacher from How to consume drugs class..
Load More Replies...Replace"chemistry teacher' with literarly anything but Greece history,history,and reading and make 12 9 and thaaaaats me.
Procrastination 101
Zoom Call
I've adjusted the camera while our cat gets settled.
Load More Replies...My dad did this on my first day of zoom undergrad. I'm pretty sure I traumatized everyone in the class
My little brother had to do kindergarten on Zoom, that was me in the background except properly dressed. The only thing was that every time I was in the background I had to yell at his kindergarten teacher for blatantly having favorites in front of the whole class, constantly ignoring my little brother, and to tell other kindergarteners where to go because the teacher couldn't communicate properly.
Load More Replies...During virtual learning, I moved at started at a different school. When I went to the library one day a librarian approached me to ask if I was in her son's class (this is a tiny town so it wasn't that weird) and I said yes. IMMEDIATELY she starts laughing about the time she walked past in the nude or in underwear after getting out a shower. Even the new kid wasn't spared the details!
The Almighty Is Here
yyyyup, i was going to start a war against the adults and take our freedom of childhood back. it didn't catch on because the teachers had bill nye the science guy
Load More Replies...There should be a photo of him in detention as well... from experience (as a bystander)
Bruuuh where do they rest during their free periods or during classes. Do they just stand all class and all day?
Load More Replies...Once I stood up on the little platform (kinda like a stage) in kindergarten class. This is what it felt like. Until every other kid copied me. Our teacher was a super fun one and she pretended to be “the student”. When she asked to go to the bathroom, we all said no and made her hold it. (I don’t think she really had to go, but it was funny at the time. We totally abused our power.)
YouTube to the Rescue
Ok this is young people culture that I don't really know, but from the memes it looks like the Indian teachers putting stuff on YouTube saved the education on the covid years. Tell me if I'm wrong? And why isn't this a thing for all the effin education already? Last time I was in any kind of a lecture was about 20 years ago. Hope you left thank yous for the YouTube teachers :)
So, during Covid, most every kid had to do online learning, which was new for younger students. Separately, there have been online classes for college aged and beyond for some time now. While this probably us about the former, the latter can also enjoy it, as some teachers just aren't great at online teaching. In the meme, the teacher barely provided any video lectures and expected the students to learn by doing coursework. Many students struggle with this method of learning. So, the student ends up going to YouTube and finding a random Indian man who happily explains the information that the teacher did not. That is the meme. I'm not out here giving opinions on whether it's right or wrong. Irrelevant.
Load More Replies...Random Indian men doing how to videos on YouTube are the true unsung heroes of modern society
I object to this. In my school if you didn't understand something the teacher tried to explain it, even if they had to use their free time. Did I just go to a really good school?
I made so many YouTube videos for my classes. During COVID, I was making like 4-5 a day. But I'm so glad other teachers did also. Sometimes, you need something explained in a different way. Also, a teacher who calls you dumb is a sh!t teacher. They're job is to explain and teach. If you're genuinely trying and not getting it, that's at least partially on them.
Interesting how half of these memes refer to students sleeping through class, vaping in the bathroom, bullying other kids and doing everything they can to avoid the effort required to learn; the other half are memes whining about teachers calling them stupid. I wonder if there is a correlation... BTW, every measure of student learning has indicated that achievement dropped during distance learning. I guess the creator of this meme is the exception? Or maybe it's just easier to make a meme than to do the work.
because class teachers are usually not very good. and dictators.
Load More Replies...That would be the common core everyone is always complaining about. It completely revolves around the underlying concepts. And everyone acts like it is new or out there.
Load More Replies...The Lone Overachiever in Class
Smiling? No. They were all glaring. Er, I mean, when it happened to a friend;)
Those are not smiles. They're baring of teeth disguised _as_ a smile. RUN!
Load More Replies...Those are the you can choose your own partner for this project that is half your grade looks.
I once had those looks directed at me except the looks were more like "How did you get them all right?" I was in biology in high school and the assignment was to identify different animal skulls me and my lab partner both got 100% on the assignment because I like to collect animal bones.
Load More Replies...HI i love you i will marry you IF YOU DO MY SCHOOL WORK thank you...
When this happened in any of my classes the looks were because they knew that person had tanked the test 100%.
“When School Has Other Plans"
School: yes, love what you do, within strict educational parameters. Kids: that's not how it works.
-Have Printmaking head of department deny credit for interning at a t-shirt brand. -work in retail into 30s -discover print shops paying above minimum wage with full time and benefits -try not to think about all those wasted years
Load More Replies...Right, because most people in every section of society have the option of only doing what they enjoy.
AND THIS IS WHY IM LOOKING AT MEMES INSTEAD OF DOING MY HOMEWORK. Yep I took one look at my homework and was like 'hocus pocus you've now lost your focus".
The Existential Crisis: Early Morning School Edition
me but at 3:00am dancing on the floor bc teens do that in the witching hour! :)
Grade Injustice: When 58.6% Doesn’t Quite Make the Cut
Hm, you were able to solve that problem so you probably aren't the right person for this.:)
Load More Replies...“The Ultimate Mystery Even I Can’t Solve”
best turtle, I can assure you, you're NOT alone!!
Load More Replies...I used to not do anything then my teacher emailed my parents so I actually had to do stuff
I wouldn’t pay attention in class and then when they called on me and I didn’t hear the first few times I would say I had mic issues
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Unlikely Allies
Must have got down voted cause they was jealous this is me as well.
Load More Replies...i finish first on sit down exams but last when its an assignment
Time taken to test is meaningless. I always finished quickly because I am good at tests. Some kids finish quickly and don't even read a thing. It is amazing how many people can get a 0. Just by accident you should get some right.
Yes but why is it that the kid who didn’t study gets the best grade? Like ????
Eidetic memory in young children is surprisingly common, or a small bit of it, I used to be able to spell any word from context clues, pretty much aced elementary
Load More Replies...Some teacher said I can't ace the English STAAR in an hour, so I aced it in 15 minutes.
Pen Cap Mystery
And even more accurate representation is when the teacher loses your assignment to claims you never did it and then you can't find the assignment so you redo it and then the teacher pulls it back up out of the back room like magic and you want to cry.
Load More Replies...In maths I dropped my pen lid and couldn’t find it. It want on the floor anywhere it wasn’t on my desk it wasn’t in my lap or in my pocket. I went through all my stuff and still by the end of the lessons didn’t find it. I swear it disappeared lol. Been half a year and still haven’t found it…
A few months ago I lost my water bottle in gym class and I swear it's not in the gym
i lost a random object i found and put in a jewelry box and I'm fairly sure it's in the backrooms now :(
and that was AN IMPORTANT RANDOM OBJECT RFFGGFHJAAAAA
Load More Replies...“When Numbers Have an Attitude”
I'm in advanced math class and I can assure you we are secretly all dumb it's just that the others are dumber /s
True, I'm in honors reading and math lmao
Load More Replies...It's not that you're a lower lifeform, you're just not coming with us. /t
Load More Replies...School Life Summed Up
"what's your science project, Brian?" *groans* " it's a cup of dirt" "well explain it" "it's a cup... With dirt in it..." -Brian Regan
Yup. I have to make a working electromagnet model about the applications of an electromagnet. Due tommorrow and is 7 marks out of 28 for our science exam. It adds to our totall which is given at the end ouf the year. What am I doing? Crying about it and taking a break after 5 mins of work and scrolling through boredpanda. wtf is wrong with me and why do i not care?
Based on a True Story
We have an annoying policy at school that makes it so you revive sixty percent of you grade if it’s two weeks late and any time after that you can’t make it up
“Why Write Notes When You Can Snap Them?”
Pretty sure that’s a rhetorical question, but it’s proven that writing things down helps you remember!
Load More Replies...School and Its Dark Legacy
What anime is this? MHA? Edit: holy moly. In 5 days I get so many answers. Now I have to see what kagura-sama's Love is war anime is. Thanks for the answers everyone!!!! Edit:Saw the anime still haven't reached this episode though! Its kinda confusing. Are there any books/manga?
HAHA yes and you raised him big and strong you're the best mom ever :)
The Sacred Rule of Silence
And then the whole class turns to look at you and you get a massive wave of unnecessary embarrassment
Dude- I coughed and the teacher said NO TALKING GUYS. Like seriously, stfu :)
Happiness Reduced to Atoms
Quarks? String loops? I feel like it's still too big
Load More Replies...“When Everyone Blames Each Other, But We're All Guilty”
My 3rd grade teacher would put a bottle of ketchup on someone's desk if they were behind!
Load More Replies...Online Classes Just Got Cool
I just want to say that then the teacher can see if you are playing a game during a call.
Assignment Overload
lmao i have 3 projects due on monday *laughs turn to sobs of distress*
i love ur name i love that show i would DIE to meet the actor for him
Post-Graduation Vibes
I walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don't know where it goes But it's home to me, and I walk alone I walk this empty street On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams Where the city sleeps And I'm the only one, and I walk alone I walk alone, I walk alone I walk alone, I walk a- My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes, I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then, I walk alone Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah I'm walking down the line That divides me somewhere in my mind On the borderline Of the edge, and where I walk alone Read between the lines What's f****d up, and everything's alright Check my vital signs To know I'm still alive, and I walk alone I walk alone, I walk alone I walk alone, I walk a- My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes, I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then, I walk alone Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah Ah
Resourceful Thinking
Google to the Rescue
I can see how memorizing facts is less relevant because of Google but not why Astrophysics is less relevant. Also, it isn't like schools are forcing people to learn Physics, you'd have to elect to take courses at that level.
Depends on what school. At some public schools it’s required
Load More Replies...Yeah, you don't even have the background to tell what is BS and what is useful. Just Google it.
Doctors have told me this about Anatomy. You have to learn it for the class, but Google can remember it for you long-term.
“School Was Amazing”
With the note on 9-3, it's best to remember that the teachers are happy to pull the "the bell does not dismiss you, I dismiss you" bullcrap.
“Back To School” Meme
“Inside A Class”
“13 Year Old Me”
Some Seriously Useful Information There
“No One Will Check Anyway...”
References
- National Research Council (US) and Institute of Medicine (US), Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development. “From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development.” National Academies Press (US), 2000. | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225557/
I had a teacher in highschool who used to think that "shaming" students would make them work harder. So, if you missed an assignment, he would right your name on the board and the date the assignment was SUPPOSED to be turned in and the date you ACTUALLY handed it in. If you didn't hand it in within 1 day of your name being written on the board, he would put a big zero on the board beside your name and the assignment. I had to miss some time from school because I got sick and instead of understanding that I missed the assignments because I was sick, he wrote my name and all 11 assignments I had missed, on the board, with a big zero beside ALL of them, to shame me and then announced to whole class that I would be failing his class. It was HORRIBLE!!!!! (Follow up: He got fired 2 years later for getting caught smoking weed with some of his students.)
As someone who just started grad school, I felt all these in my soul.
... school sucked. 14 years, 7 schools, about 200 classmates may not be speaking for me in every regard, but that I know what I'm talking about, it shall make sure enough for now. School sucked, because once you were sorted into your categories, you couldn't escape. The grade-A, small grown, half asian boy, a real teachers' darling, reveived the same credit I did when we ... meaning I ... electrified some lamps into a cardboard house. I knew how that works and basically got our group's girls to do "girl stuff" (= paint the house, decorate it ... generally, I'm not a supporter of assigning these to girls, but being a 3rd grader, I didn't know any better and they weren't interested anyway, ...), and had him occupied with something else, and was automatically considered having contributed the least. Us being graded equally seems like the highest to ever expect. I don't have any hard feelings against him, he probably is a nice guy, more likely than not, but him being graded A just went on Autopilot way too long. Same with the three in my last school who were able to skip one grade - they were considered geniusses anyway, and therefore, received overly optimistic oral grades at the very, very, very least.
School I always just showed up for lunch and if I actually went to class I slept
I've been in my school for 2 months and just now I see back to school memes like 😖😤
I had a teacher in highschool who used to think that "shaming" students would make them work harder. So, if you missed an assignment, he would right your name on the board and the date the assignment was SUPPOSED to be turned in and the date you ACTUALLY handed it in. If you didn't hand it in within 1 day of your name being written on the board, he would put a big zero on the board beside your name and the assignment. I had to miss some time from school because I got sick and instead of understanding that I missed the assignments because I was sick, he wrote my name and all 11 assignments I had missed, on the board, with a big zero beside ALL of them, to shame me and then announced to whole class that I would be failing his class. It was HORRIBLE!!!!! (Follow up: He got fired 2 years later for getting caught smoking weed with some of his students.)
As someone who just started grad school, I felt all these in my soul.
... school sucked. 14 years, 7 schools, about 200 classmates may not be speaking for me in every regard, but that I know what I'm talking about, it shall make sure enough for now. School sucked, because once you were sorted into your categories, you couldn't escape. The grade-A, small grown, half asian boy, a real teachers' darling, reveived the same credit I did when we ... meaning I ... electrified some lamps into a cardboard house. I knew how that works and basically got our group's girls to do "girl stuff" (= paint the house, decorate it ... generally, I'm not a supporter of assigning these to girls, but being a 3rd grader, I didn't know any better and they weren't interested anyway, ...), and had him occupied with something else, and was automatically considered having contributed the least. Us being graded equally seems like the highest to ever expect. I don't have any hard feelings against him, he probably is a nice guy, more likely than not, but him being graded A just went on Autopilot way too long. Same with the three in my last school who were able to skip one grade - they were considered geniusses anyway, and therefore, received overly optimistic oral grades at the very, very, very least.
School I always just showed up for lunch and if I actually went to class I slept
I've been in my school for 2 months and just now I see back to school memes like 😖😤
