What Was Your Biggest Disappointment in High School?

[Luv Bunnies]

At the end of my freshman year, my high school closed. My sister was in the last graduating class. We waited impatiently for the boundries to be redrawn so we could find out which school we would be going to. I really wanted to go to a particular school but we fell in the boundries of another one. My brother was going into his senior year and he got to choose which school he went to and he chose the one I wanted. The lower classmen didn't get a choice so I was forced to go to our rival school. I got separated from friends who ended up in the boundries of other schools.

I will say that one good thing came from my school closing. I met my future husband who had already graduated from my new school but came back in the summer as a marching band coach. If I hadn't gone to that school, I may never have met him. I also made some life-long friends at that school.

 

[klacey1]

Two big disappointments in high school :
Junior Prom. My boyfriend and I had dated for two and a half years, but broke up halfway through 11th grade. We had decided to go to prom together anyway-- he promised me we'd still dance and have a good time. He spent the entire night outside the ballroom calling his new girlfriend (who had apparently fallen "incredibly ill") It was just so terrible-- I tried to make the best of it and dance with my friends, but the guy who called himself my "best friend" even after we split really let me down.

Other disappointment happened senior year. Apparently our musical choreographer "heard" that people thought she was favoring certain people (Which she certainly did). In order to dispell these rumors, my senior year they decided to do Grease and give all the major parts to the random, untalented people who tried out only because it was Grease, giving only bit parts to all of the seniors who had worked hard to try to rise in ranks every year. The other people in my class-- we worked very, very hard 9-11th grades! Even if we didn't have the biggest roles in the shows, we showed up to every rehearsal and were super devoted! We were also talented, and deserved good roles! However, we were not the choreographer's favorites. That was a group of select girls a year younger than us who were apparently the best dancers. The choreographer felt SO TERRIBLE that the next year, for her favorite's senior year, they picked a show that showcased THEIR talents. Reading quotes from the director and the choreographer in the local newspaper made my blood boil! Funny how years later, these things can still make you angry!

Overall, though, I don't mean to sound bitter! I did love high school-- I was editor in chief of the newspaper, officer in a couple of other clubs, had tons of friends and dates. These disappointments were merely blips on the road!

 

[ProgressCity]

My biggest disappointment was that high school wasn't like Saved by the Bell

 

[Silent1CB]

At my age, I think I've gotten over any that seemed big at the time.

 

[bean]

Found out in May of my junior year that I had cancer. Pretty much exactly like that Rascal Flatts song, "Skin." Bald for my senior prom and all that. Hmm..wonder why my boyfriend didn't shave his head? Pretty much sucked (it was a very aggressive one-the cancer, not my boyfriend) but now I'm a very healthy 34 year old with a HUGE appreciation for my health and the health of my family.

 

[TwinsinCA]

I hated high school, there were so many disappointments I can't pick out just one.

agnes!

I'm in this camp too.

 

[AustinTink]

I hated high school, there were so many disappointments I can't pick out just one.

agnes!

ITA!

 

[terri01p]

My biggest disappointment in high school was not giving a crap, now at 45+ years of age I'm starting to care.

 

[pipersmom]

I took Journalism all four yrs of high school, the first three were awesome, great Sponser, I was Editor 10-12th. (Small program..maybe 10-12 kids total on the paper each year). Well, Senior year rolls in and my fave had left to be replaced by a math (?!?) teacher, who was clueless...we agreed to disagree so many times it wasn't even funny. When time came around for the Senior Journalism Award, he passed me over for one of his calculus pets..even SHE objected. It was horrible! (at the time).

 

[HugsForEeyore]

I hated high school, there were so many disappointments I can't pick out just one.

agnes!

Same here.

My high school experience was a big zero, a miserable time overall. I was as unpopular as you can get. I was so low on the social ladder that I fell off (yep, I was that low). Didn't have not one real friend at school - some aquaintances, but no friends. Teased and bullied constantly by two different groups of boys, as if being teased by one group wasn't enough. Uncaring teachers who didn't even bother to know your name. Teachers who favored the rich/talented/attractive students and would not bother with nobodies like me.

And forget about dating, proms, dances, crushes, being invited to parties - I was completely left out. When you are the most unpopular kid in the school, stuff like that was a total non-issue. I missed out on all those experiences, though I never cared too much anyways since I always knew I was excluded and never had any expectations. And by junior year, all my grades were C's, no matter how hard I tried. I couldn't compete with the affulent kids who were nurtured from day one to be superstars.

Sadly not much changed the whole time in high school. But when I got to college, I made friends very easily and my grades went to all A's and B's. Amazing.

Guess it's no surprise I blew off my 20th high school reunion. I never want to see any of those people ever again!!!

 

[Melissa<3Disney]

Same here.

My high school experience was a big zero, a miserable time overall. I was as unpopular as you can get. I was so low on the social ladder that I fell off (yep, I was that low). Didn't have not one real friend at school - some aquaintances, but no friends. Teased and bullied constantly by two different groups of boys, as if being teased by one group wasn't enough. Uncaring teachers who didn't even bother to know your name. Teachers who favored the rich/talented/attractive students and would not bother with nobodies like me.

And forget about dating, proms, dances, crushes, being invited to parties - I was completely left out. When you are the most unpopular kid in the school, stuff like that was a total non-issue. I missed out on all those experiences, though I never cared too much anyways since I always knew I was excluded and never had any expectations.

Sadly not much changed the whole time in high school. But when I got to college, I made friends very easily and my grades went to all A's and B's. Amazing.

Guess it's no surprise I blew off my 20th high school reunion. I never want to see any of those people ever again!!!

Aww i'm sorry to hear you had such a bad experience!! It seems like you turned out be a great person despite all that mess!!
I hated my first two years at our public high school.. I had a couple of good friends. But when I was in eighth grade I got very sick with a muscle disease and had to stay out of school for months. I couldn't walk for a while. Well long story short I had to take steroids to gain my muscles back... well being that I was a 13 year old girl who couldn't walk the steroids just made me gain weight. I finally was well enough to go back to school and was so excited to see all my friends. Well when I got back one of the girls who was a "good" friend of mine started a nasty rumor that I went to fat camp. The rest of the year all the girls would bully me about being "fat", wouldn't let me sit with them at lunch.. etc. etc.!! Needless to say when we got to high school I made a few new friends but since we all had separate lunches, I would eat by myself outside the library and then finish homework or read until lunch was over. It was miserable! Lucky for me we had a collegiate high school in my town and I ended up going there for my junior and senior year!! It was great!! very small school, but my friends that I made there are still my best friends to this day!! We are practically like family!! So I guess my biggest disappointment is letting those girls get me down!! Today I am a successful woman who has a good man, good job, great place to live and great friends!!

 

[FireDancer]

I don't think I had any disappointments per se but inn hind sight I would have like to run track and cross country. I can't say I am disappointed I didn't or even really regret it. It's more out of curiosity to see what I could have done.

I'm generally more inclined to concentrate on what lies ahead than dwell on what happened in the past.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

Aww i'm sorry to hear you had such a bad experience!! It seems like you turned out be a great person despite all that mess!!

I hated my first two years at our public high school.. I had a couple of good friends. But when I was in eighth grade I got very sick with a muscle disease and had to stay out of school for months. I couldn't walk for a while. Well long story short I had to take steroids to gain my muscles back... well being that I was a 13 year old girl who couldn't walk the steroids just made me gain weight. I finally was well enough to go back to school and was so excited to see all my friends. Well when I got back one of the girls who was a "good" friend of mine started a nasty rumor that I went to fat camp. The rest of the year all the girls would bully me about being "fat", wouldn't let me sit with them at lunch.. etc. etc.!! Needless to say when we got to high school I made a few new friends but since we all had separate lunches, I would eat by myself outside the library and then finish homework or read until lunch was over. It was miserable! Lucky for me we had a collegiate high school in my town and I ended up going there for my junior and senior year!! It was great!! very small school, but my friends that I made there are still my best friends to this day!! We are practically like family!! So I guess my biggest disappointment is letting those girls get me down!! Today I am a successful woman who has a good man, good job, great place to live and great friends!!

Oh gosh - I relate too well!! I would hide in the library and never eat lunch at all since I had no one to sit with in the cafeteria. Sometimes I would sneak a snack into the library and eat it there. I would always be in the library, since it was the only socially-safe place.

Guess it should be no surprise that what profession did I chose? Yep - I became a librarian!!!

Glad to hear all was better when you got out of that horrible school!! I so much prefer being an adult anyday to being a kid!

 

[phragmipedium]

I actually had a really good time in high school. I was a valedictorian, voted most likely to succeed by my peers, very involved in activities and community service, had a good social life and earned a full-ride scholarship to my university of choice. If I had to do it over again, I would have a) cared less about what people thought, b) had way more self-confidence because I looked fantastic and didn't appreciate it, and c) not been so into my boyfriend in senior year that I cared less about things that had been more important to me before. I didn't drop my activities, but I didn't do as well in them or focus in them like I should have and I'm a little disappointed in that. I suppose I also wish I would have been involved in a sport, but I really wasn't athletically talented and I'm not sure what I would have done. Maybe tennis.

My real disappointments are with how I did in college. I was a little burned out from academics in high school, and when I got my first B my first term of college, I kind of let things go. I still graduated with a 3.50, but I went to probably less than half of my classes throughout college and definitely did not live up to my potential. I also did not stick with my intended major of choice and I think I would have been happier and certainly had more fulfillment in my career (and been more lucrative) if I had. I was homesick, pretty much dependent on my then-boyfriend/fiance for the first part of college, and didn't want to make new friends - I think I was a little depressed and I wish I'd have done something about it because I really could have done more with my education. I also feel like if I'd had more drive and motivation, I'd definitely have gone to graduate school but as it was I really wasn't sure what I'd want to do, so I didn't. I didn't even go to my graduation because I was so un-invested in my time in college and it felt kind of meaningless compared to my "stellar" high school experience.

 

[Planogirl]

My biggest disappointment now was not applying myself more. My grades were OK but they could have been much better. I was happier hanging out with my friends and planning our weekends and so on instead.

 

[Lucky4me]

I had a good time in High school until.....they passed out the yearbooks when I was a senior. I excitedly turned to the page where I WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD THEY NOT FORGOTTEN MY PICTURE!!!!!!! Huge disappointment.
Someone stole several photos out of the yearbook room and mine was one of them. There were three more besides me. They offered to run it the next year, but what was the point?
I was in the book a few more times for bands and orchestras and a few candids, so all was not lost, but still, it was my biggest high school disappointment.

 

[kellyg403]

Overall, hs wasn't a bad experience for me. Dad was in the military so I went to three different high schools but it was o.k. I didn't really have a hard time finding new friends etc.

I guess my one big regret is the boy I dated in 11th and 12th grade was the love of my life. The first really big relationship since I was in the same place for two whole years. We broke up TWO WEEKS before prom because he wanted to date someone else. And her name was Kelly too. It was the worst thing in the world at the time. I ended up going to Prom with a good friend but spent the evening lamenting the other boy. I regret not having the maturity to realize how much fun I could have had with the friend and not realizing how lucky I was to be done with the loser boy.

Kelly

 

[Uuaww]

Junior year, I was getting offers from various college for football (I was a great punter, so-so kicker) I was stoked about the prospect of not having to pay for college and getting to go to a great school for FREE! Senior year comes around, had my visits to Colorado State, UAB and Southern Mississippi; life was awesome. First Quarter, first game of the season, I get blindsided on a punt block, landed awkwardly and spiral fractured my ankle/leg, part of the bone stuck out of my skin. My football life ended, no scholarships, no more fun...

I remember laying on the field, seeing the ambulence pull up field side, my friends in the stands with handles over their mouths, my teammates huddled together... Our Coach had a "tradition" that if a senior player went down with a a season ending injury during the season, he let them keep his helmet (everyone else had to return them). As I laid down in the ambulence, he placed my helmet in beside me, and I knew it was over.

Biggest what-if in my life.

 

[snapppyd]

I wouldn't know where to begin, it was four years in Hades.

 

[Disney Doll]

Found out in May of my junior year that I had cancer. Pretty much exactly like that Rascal Flatts song, "Skin." Bald for my senior prom and all that. Hmm..wonder why my boyfriend didn't shave his head? Pretty much sucked (it was a very aggressive one-the cancer, not my boyfriend) but now I'm a very healthy 34 year old with a HUGE appreciation for my health and the health of my family.

Now doesn't everyone else's disappointments feel small by comparison????

My biggets disappointment was not trying out for a part in the play. For whatever reason, as much as I enjoyed working in the background on the paly, I never got the nerve to try out. Not the school's fault at all...it was my own...thing...shyness, lack of self-esteem, whatever...