School Struggles: Can You Relate?

Did you enjoy your school days? High school is the most enjoyable time in our lives. Imagine waking up at 5 or 6 a.m. to go to school at 7 a.m. Every day, we consume or spend nearly 8 hours at school. We return home and have difficulty finding a bus to take; sometimes it is full and we must stand until we arrive at our destination. We get home around 6 to 7 p.m. That is what others go through every day in high school, and yet we still have energy to go to the neighborhood and talk. Imagine how we did it for years and still remember high school as one of the best times of our lives.

I found this fun game again where you tell what your school struggles are in the image below. Let us now attempt to respond to them.

• Feel Sleepy

This is the most difficult for me every time I arrive at school, and the teacher is very calm in her teaching, as if she were giving us the opportunity to sleep in class. Lol. I always feel sleepy when my teacher is very calm. When I was in senior high school, I always slept late and only slept for 4 hours or less because I had to go to school in the morning, and if I didn't get a chance to sleep during lunch, I was sleepy the rest of the day.

• Wake Up Early

Isa pa ito. Haha. This was the struggle I had to face every day when I was still in school. I can't get up that early, and I occasionally arrive late for the first class. It's difficult to get out of bed early when you've only slept for 3-4 hours. I always want to be absent on that day, but I don't because being absent on one day feels like you've been absent for too long and have missed a lot of lessons.

• Mean Teachers

When I have a mean teacher, it is not always a struggle for me. What makes it difficult for me is when they give you grades that you do not deserve. If they are mean and you do not want to recite to them because they sometimes just want to recite their favorite students and give them extra points. In that case, they will receive many points while others will not because, despite raising their hands to recite, they did not choose to recite. Really, grades are affected. That was a struggle for me at times because I am not a favorite.

• Deadlines

Who wouldn't be under pressure when the deadline is approaching and you've only just begun what you're doing? I didn't have much trouble with deadlines until I was in senior high school. All of your teachers will assign you a project to complete, and they will give you only a day or two to complete it. It's fine when there are only one or two projects, but when there are more than three, I feel like I'm running out of time, and instead of making it more presentable, I just make what looks good to me without considering whether or not the teacher will like it. I struggle and believe I am incapable of working under duress. Haha. Lol.

• Way Too Far From Home

I live a long distance away from the school. I live in another municipality. I have to ride a tricycle to the bus station and then a bus to school. It can be difficult for me to find a tricycle in our barangay because it is not a typical densely populated neighborhood. Even when I want to go to school and not be late, I end up being late due to the travel time. It is difficult for me to live so far away from school. Furthermore, when we have a practice or make a project, it is difficult for me to go anywhere we have decided just to make those projects. I also struggle because I spend more money on bus fare than my classmates.

Final Thoughts

Others that I did not choose are not a struggle for me because I have not experienced them. They are not struggles for me because I did not feel that way when I was studying. My parents did not force me to study hard, but instead encouraged me to have fun and see how much I could earn at the end of the school year. I was fortunate because I always received high grades and graduated with honors.

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Publishing Date: May 30, 2022