(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); If you hate school, parents and teachers may be quick to label you as 'troubled' or 'defiant' or diagnose you with a bunch of disorders. Nothing could be further from the truth.

There is nothing wrong with hating school, there is nothing wrong with hating being forced to go someplace you don't want to and being "taught" things that don't interest you in ways that would kill you if boredom were lethal.

You're not worthless if you don't get good grades, and you're not mentally ill if the mere thought of school scares you.

In fact, you're probably perfectly sane.

They say school is for learning? Well, being bored is hardly any way to learn anything! No wonder hardly anyone remembers what they were forced to memorize at school. School isn't about learning, it's about training people to be obedient to those with authority over them.

Don't trust school to 'educate' you - only you can be trusted with that!

You are not alone. Most people hate it too, but usually they don't feel entitled to say so, and many can't bear to think about it so they hardly even know how they feel. You are not mad – you don't have a Deep Psychological Problem (though you might develop one if you stay in school against your will!); and you are not bad for wanting to live your life the way you choose, doing what you think right – that is what everyone should be doing. You are not the problem: coercion is the problem.

No one really likes school, its one of the things in life that people have to go through to get to better things in life.

School is as good as you make it to be, so if you're a dirtbag who always gets in trouble for doing stupid shit, then you won't a good time there. Even people who are not the most intelligent can have a good time there, or at least "survive it" because they put forth and fake a positive attitude towards school.

You saying not to trust school to educate you is so far off of the truth though...because most people, when given the opportunity, would NOT take the time to educate one's self, they would simply waste away in life.

School, although it can be difficult, is there to help people achieve something better for themselves in the future, it's not designed to torture you, and if you feel that way then maybe you DO need some help, because believe me, teachers do NOT get degrees in teaching for the money, they do it to help out the students that they teach.

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There was this study I read where people who did not get straight A's actually did better in real life and earned more money.