Personal Statement On Dislike School

Why I Dislike School School has not always been something that I hate. As I’m sure is remembered, I used to not want to leave school, and looked forward to going in the morning. This is obviously not true anymore, for a multitude of reasons. School, specifically Jones and 12-14, is very different from how I grew up having school, from levels 3-6 to 9-12. I don’t feel that even after 3 years of a differently structured school-life I’m still not used to the changes. This ‘new school’ is very structured (Jones even more so than 12-14) and has grades, higher levels of homework, separate teachers, specific classes, and specifically for Jones, a large amount of strangers and a difficult commute. Starting with the issue of structure- growing up, as you already know, school was very unstructured. I would get there at 8:45 and have a basically free period of time, excepting lunch, gym, spanish, and maybe a small instruction time with the teacher. Junior high was meant to be a transition period from this very unstructured environment to the highly structured high school environment. I don’t think I ever correctly made that switch, in that I have kept the love of ‘free learning time’ that was so promoted in my early years, and rejected the structure of Junior High, simply hating it instead of adapting. I have found that learning is much more enjoyable, for me personally, with my own schedule and my own pace. Just like how …show more content…
I don’t know how you would be able to help any of these, but I felt that I should tell you my reasons in a more clear way than I have been able to in the past. Writing on paper seemed a much easier way to explain than trying to tell you in one big pile of words. I have not been able to give you much insight on why I dislike school before, and that is why I decided to show this explained list of reasons going into my dislike of