For the younger ones...

[Sylvester 15]

Is it just me or do you have subjects you can just do but you actually really hate that subject?

For me it was English, it was never a subject i had any issues with at School, it just happened... but my i hated it.

And for subjects with best grades... ha Resistant Materials Technology (aka Woodwork) ah it was my only A at GCSE.

The irony...

[Chris Perkins 228]

Metalwork.

The Irony...

[Sylvester 15]

Metalwork.

The Irony...

Iron-y

But you meant that all along... it just wanted to beat JMD at pointig it out.

[Guest Pierrevonmunzen]

Physics and Chemistry

The Ion E's

[Chris Perkins 228]

But you meant that all along... it just wanted to beat JMD at pointig it out.

Thankyou Syl, I'm pleased you got there before he did, saved me a groan or 2!

Von Muenzen, Sprechen Sie Deutsche?

[Master Jmd 89]

Talking about subjects...

...Year 10 of my school recieved our reports for the first term yesterday. I hate english aswell, but on my report i recieved an estimated GCSE grade of A- !!!

...That is the same with maths, chemistry and music, but i do not dislike them like i do with english.

...Another thing, my worst grade (E+!!!) was recieved in Biology, and i do not mind that out of the other sciences!!!

Oh well...!

[Geoff T 3]

My son loathed French. He got an A* at GCSE (albeit with a little paternal assistance...).

I was just crap at all things I hated and hated all the things I was crap at. I couldn't wait for A level were I could ditch them all.

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[Unknown 0]

For me I always got the best possible notes in all but English and Euskera (vasc language)... the reason is that I didn't like them, what did I need them for? Everyone spoke Spanish around me...

Who would have told me that I would end up living in England...

[Emperor Oli 0]

I didn't really dislike English until a few weeks ago when we started reading Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd. It has to be the most boring book ever written. Shakespeare I like, I enjoyed it. We also have to read a book "from another culture". We read Things Fall Apart by a nigerian writer called Chinua Achebe. It is a badly-written, veiled attack on colonialism, and that's the reason I dislike it. So to sum up (!) English is my most hated subject.

Saying that, however, I dislike Chemistry, and wish the syllabus included more about disease and toxicology in biology!

[Half Penny Jon 0]

I dread English, I hate my class, its so childish! I am quite good at it though as it happens.We are currently doing a piece of coursework based on "To Kill a Mickingbird", I am enjoying it so far.

My faviorite subject is French, I don't know why but I just love it! We have a french assistant who comes in most lessons and I talk to her in french for most of the lesson whilst everyone learns the basics!

[Geoff T 3]

I also hated most of the books we were given to read until I got to A level. That probably accounts for my being in the odd position of having failed English Lit. at O level and then getting an A at A level. At A level you were even allowed to say you hated the books as long as you could justify it, which I would dearly have loved to have done with "Wuthering heights" at O level. Years later my poor daughter had to to it for A level, so my heart went out to her.

In my day (cue violins) English language still had a marked emphasis on grammar and spelling, right from primary level - and I loved it. Even now I have people who can't spell or who write bad English for breakfast...definitely

[Emperor Oli 0]

Even now, Geoff, as long as one provides justification, one can say the book is utter rubbish!

[Sylvester 15]

I also hated most of the books we were given to read until I got to A level. That probably accounts for my being in the odd position of having failed English Lit. at O level and then getting an A at A level.

I hated English literature, and i hate Shakespeare (except for the Merchant of Venice, but he totally nicked that story).

Now funny you should say that Geoff, i didn't get into the top group in English but i was in one of the two intermediate groups, where i was borderline of whether i should go in for the higher paper or the foundation.

Well the teacher put me on foundation English (the previous teacher had put me on higher), anyhow i sailed through the exam with no problems and scored the top mark i could get on foundation English, grade C.

I went to college and took English language, AS level i got an A. During the second year though we got a really naff teacher and my grades dropped slightly and thus i came out with a B at A-Level. Which was still an improvement over GCSE!

Infact come to think of it the grade i seem to almost always level out at was B/C. I'm overall a B person.

Infact i got B in History at both GCSE and A-Level, double B in science, B in French, and also in maths.

At uni i'm heading for a 2:1 with a bit of luck, which is the equivalent of, yep... B.

By the way i loved Chemistry... now there was a subject i really enjoyed. I used to look forward to going to those lessons. I'm now regretting not have done it at A-Level or beyond. I knew i shouldn't have done history, but History was my default subject, it was the easy option, it didn't involve maths and was thus naturally not as challenging.

[Emperor Oli 0]

but he totally nicked that story

You'll find that the majority of writers at the time stole other people's stories and just reworded them, perhaps embellishing them here, cutting bits out there - it was the norm.

[Master Jmd 89]

I didn't really dislike English until a few weeks ago when we started reading Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd. It has to be the most boring book ever written.

...We (my english class) started the Far From the Madding Crowd book last week. We started reading from chapter LVII (57 (The last chapter)) for some strange reason, we are now watching the DVD; the most boring film i have ever seen (no recomendations )...anyway, it has kind of cheered me up a bit as it means that we get to watch a DVD rather than do an 'Analysis of the book so far'.

[Geordie582 18]

Bring back the cane!!!

[Geoff T 3]

Bring back the cane!!!

Why?

[Chris Perkins 228]

Good teachers are all that's needed, although I'm sure the cane would be a damn good threating device!

I was hit at primary school once by Mr O'Brien, a brand new teacher on his first day. He slapped me very hard accross the back of my head because I was hitting paper balls at Kevin with my desk lid (who was returning most of them, we called the game simply 'desk tennis'). I happened to be the closest to new Mr O'Brien when he came into the room.

I think that would have been about '88/'89 before the ban on corporal punishment in school, which I think was made in about 1990.

[Geordie582 18]

I was caned regularly "in the old days", usually for not doing my homework, or getting it all wrong. Resented it then, but am grateful they woke me up to the importance of education!

[Chris Perkins 228]

No doubt some of the young forum members here deserve a good slap sometimes!

[Unknown 0]

I was always the student with the best notes, so I never had the cane...

But I did got hit once in the back of my head for my stile of writing... it was the "Head Master", I turned around and told him strongly, but with respect, never to do it again, that he had no reason and that if he didn't like my writing he should not call me to the black-board, he should call others that he liked the stile off... he never bother me again...

[Sylvester 15]

It'd be pretty unusual these days that, firstly because they can't cane anymore unfortunately and secondly because blackboards are getting quite scarce.

[Master Jmd 89]

It'd be pretty unusual these days that, firstly because they can't cane anymore unfortunately and secondly because blackboards are getting quite scarce.

Unless you went to a rubbish junior school like i did!

[Sylvester 15]

Unless you went to a rubbish junior school like i did!

I actually prefer blackboards.

Interesting (or not) story. When i went to the junior school every room had blackboards except for one which had the fabled whiteboards.

Now we were all kinda deeply impressed cos we'd never come across a whiteboard before, this would have been in about 1991. It was a novetly to us.

Secondary school was kind more black than white when i started, but the other way around when i left. They were actively eliminating them.

Now the pens squeak and whiteboards reflect light alot easier than their black counterparts making them much harder to read if the classroom is badly layed out, i.e where light can reflect off of it no matter what time of day.

The amount of times i've been sat right at the front and i still couldn't see the blasted thing.

Very rarely had problems with the blackboards though, so despite the dust i prefer them. Strangely i find it to be science departments (the progressive areas supposedly!) that are usually the last to lose them. As they were at both school and college.

[Emperor Oli 0]

Give me a blackboard any day!