Least favorite year in school, K-12

[TDAS04]

For me, it was 6th, my first year of middle school.  My grades got really lousy (they were fine in 5th) and it was the year I got picked on by my classmates the most.

[SWE]

Fifth grade

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Year Eight (ages 12-13, which I believe corresponds to seventh grade) was a personal disaster, because I was in a constant battle to desperately be funny and find a "niche"; and the only friend I managed to have was the year's resident fascist wannabe (like that episode of Peep Show).

[Rockefeller GOP]

Middle school sucked, hard to choose.  Voted seventh.

[free my dawg]

12th. That was the year where I wound up being psychologically burnt out and almost killing myself.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

12th. That was the year where I wound up being psychologically burnt out and almost killing myself.

Basically this, though I wasn't quite as suicidal as much as homicidal.

[Хahar 🤔]

Seventh grade is the worst year because it is the year when you are the farthest from not being in middle school.

[Torie]

Kindergarten. It all seemed so silly and beneath me, and a waste of time. And then I resented that in 1st grade, the girls seemed to dominate the action in class, so towards the end of that year, I became well, somewhat similar to what I am now, a rather assertive SOB, in reaction to the "chick click" as I perceived it.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

1st

[retromike22]

Middle school sucked, hard to choose.  Voted seventh.

[The Dowager Mod]

Senior year was pretty bad for several reasons.

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Poor 7th grade...

[SATW]

as bad as middle school is for most of us, I gotta say 11th grade (Junior yr of High school).

[Miles]

7th grade, easily.

[free my dawg]

12th. That was the year where I wound up being psychologically burnt out and almost killing myself.

Basically this, though I wasn't quite as suicidal as much as homicidal.

Actually, 6th grade on was pretty horrific for me for reasons I've alluded to before.

[Türkisblau]

I chose 7th for different reasons, but it is crazy how popular a choice it is. I moved away from NM in 7th grade and cried on the first day at my new school. I had horrible friends, very very depressing.

[RR1997]

A tie between Kindergarten, 7th grade, and 11th grade. Those years sucked. All the other years were amazing tho.

It's interesting how 7th grade is overwhelmingly the most hated grade among Atlas Forum members.

[free my dawg]

7th grade is just one giant blur, tbh. Not good, not bad. Just forgettable.

[TDAS04]

Things got better for me in 7th grade, then 8th grade was one of my better years of school. I got used to middle school, my grades were decent, and I generally felt accepted by my classmates (I started to prove to them that I was actually smart )

[ilikeverin]

Oh, least favorite?  4th.  I didn't see the "least" for some reason, so strike a vote from 12th

[Mr. Smith]

5th, since it started the doldrums.

Should've been good, but alas my Ma went into hyper socon mode and bailed me out of elementary school, and insisted on homeschooling for two years with A Beka,...a Fundie textbook company.

The next year she eased up, and after that she relented and put me back in Middle School, which still sucked, but was nothing compared to that insidious far-right perspective being dumped on me.

[Vosem]

Difficult to say between grades 5-6 and grade 9, which were all very sucky and horrible. I was probably bullied harder in grades 5-6, while in grade 9 I wasn't bullied so much as friendless and extremely unmotivated (I had the easiest schedule but the worst grades of my whole time in high school). I'll say grade 9, since the problems there are both fresher in my mind and had more lasting consequences than the ones in grades 5-6.

Grades 7 & 8 were actually OK; they were both bordered by periods of suckiness, though.

[Frodo]

Middle school was a horrible experience for me in general. 

[Samantha]

Most of K-12 was miserable for me. I was never interested in what I was being taught, I never liked any of the other kids—I thought they were unimaginative, maladroit, and dull.  It was 9th grade when I first took notice of the maximum security lockdown, complete with armed police monitoring the perimeter of the school, when standardized testing (aka how school districtsnin Texas earn money) was taking place. I then made the connection with all the time we had spent memorizing the answers to the standardized test questions rather than actually learning anything. It was disturbing, and my view of the education system was jaded.

I dropped out of my senior year to play full time in a band, now I'm a data entry clerk. Life happens.

[Türkisblau]

Most of K-12 was miserable for me. I was never interested in what I was being taught, I never liked any of the other kids—I thought they were unimaginative, maladroit, and dull.  It was 9th grade when I first took notice of the maximum security lockdown, complete with armed police monitoring the perimeter of the school, when standardized testing (aka how school districtsnin Texas earn money) was taking place. I then made the connection with all the time we had spent memorizing the answers to the standardized test questions rather than actually learning anything. It was disturbing, and my view of the education system was jaded.

I dropped out of my senior year to play full time in a band, now I'm a data entry clerk. Life happens.

I just cut myself on your edge.