What's the worst assignment you've ever been assigned in school?

[Silent_cries]

Mine would be anything that has to do with speaking orally in class, acting and/or recording things. I have rly bad stage fright and I hated it so much! The amount of bulliyng in school didn't exactly make it any better either. >_<

 

[sserafim]

A 4,000 word paper called the EE (Extended Essay). The whole IB (International Baccalaureate) was a pain in the ass tbh

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Anything that involves public speaking or recording myself. My issues with speaking in front of the class were so bad that I had three teachers recommended that I get an IEP for it and I eventually did get one in grade 8. It was great since it meant no more speaking in front of the class, plus I got to have extra time on my exams. I don't have an IEP anymore but I also haven't had any assignments requiring me to speaking front of an audience now that I'm as a uni student, so I guess I'm fine for now.

 

[Lirisu]

It was a dumbass essay on Shakespeare. The essay itself wasn't difficult, but the teacher was a cunt. He gave zeros to the people he didn't like (80% of the class), claiming the essays were AI-generated, even though he used an inaccurate AI detector on purpose.

 

[yellowjester]

Mine would be anything that has to do with speaking orally in class,

Same. Going to school on a day where I had to do a presentation felt like walking to the gallows after being sentenced to death; it was fucking brutal. We were always told by our teachers that they were doing us a favor, too, by preparing us for the real world, but all it ever did was turn me into an even more anxious and neurotic wreck than I previously was.

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

I feel like I gave up on school after being made to read Wuthering Heights. I've nothing against the book, it just really sucks and I hate it.

 

[NumbItAll]

I feel like I gave up on school after being made to read Wuthering Heights. I've nothing against the book, it just really sucks and I hate it.

I failed so many assignments and got horrible grades in English simply because I did not read much of the horrible literature that was assigned. Turns out I can still read, write, and comprehend just fine without that garbage.

 

[Silent_cries]

Same. Going to school on a day where I had to do a presentation felt like walking to the gallows after being sentenced to death; it was fucking brutal. We were always told by our teachers that they were doing us a favor, too, by preparing us for the real world, but all it ever did was turn me into an even more anxious and neurotic wreck than I previously was.

Ngl, the "preparing you for the real world" thing is pretty ironic coz it was the real world that turned me into an anxious wreck personally. (yes, unfortunately I am also an anxious wreck, you're not alone about that)
No amount of preparation can protect you from the horrid truth real life is :/ Not that I wasn't anxious to begin with...

 

[Lady Laudanum]

The worst assignment ever was when I was in elementary school and the teacher filmed literally all of us playing a ball sport so that we could evaluate our own skills and reflect on what we need to improve.

I was really bad at sports when I was younger, and I was also big compared to my peers because I hit puberty a bit earlier than average. People made oinking sounds whenever they saw me on the video. I ran out of the classroom and the teacher didn't even care.

I developed an eating disorder shortly after that. It wasn't the whole reason I developed an ED but it was like the straw that broke the camel's back.

 

[eatantz]

Besides the public speaking ones, I remember in history having to write a slave diary(I was 12). It's so insane looking back on it, my class was mostly white so we all had to pretend to be an African slaves in the old American south. I got the highest grade, I'm not sure if it's because I'm half black or what, but I found the whole thing really odd now.