Why I failed Geography at every level

 

When are we going to start sending wicked teachers to jail? (Photo credit: Google)

The gang spent some time gossiping their secondary school lecturers today and it brought back memories from those days of white and purple; the days of brown canes and juvenile antics… Thank God for growth and the grace to have a good story to tell.

I heard folks talking about some certain teachers and how their actions and inactions influenced their love and hatred for certain subjects and I can relate. It baffles people when I tell them I failed Geography at every level, I did well to avoid it in WAEC but there’s a rich history behind that.

It all started in SS1, I must say I should never have gone to science class; I’m from the kinda family that glorify intangibles, you’re seen as dumb if you’re not in science class, I fell for that nonsense and I paid for it with wasted years because I don’t see the value of dy/dx in brand strategy and advertising.

Back to Geography, we didn’t have a teacher for the entirety of first term, only for one old man to show up one sunny afternoon about a week to exams and asked us to tear a sheet of paper and he was going to dictate questions for what would be our mid-term test.

Omo! Everyone was bewildered and instead of him to seek ways to settle us into his boring session, he stood there with his ugly tribal marks threatening us with canes. The only thing the man would be remembered for was the fact he kept bragging about his left hand that can beat to death.

I lost interest in Geography as a subject, I failed it through secondary school and ensured I avoided it clinically during WAEC and university days. It’s amazing how people come to me to tell me Geography is the easiest course ever, nonsense people but somehow, they recline into shells when I tell them Further Mathematics is the easiest.

Chemistry was lit, I never had to read for Agric Science or Biology to ace em, Economics was quite interesting and Physics was just Physics, with clear understanding of few formulas, Credit is going to show up but here’s an unpopular opinion, English Language was harder than Mathematics but y’all won’t agree.

It’s amazing how no one has moved the motion to send wicked teachers to jail for child abuse. I will never understand how someone will leave his or her house, get to work (school) and then line children up for premium beating all in the name of trying to make corrections. Are you the devil’s cousin?

Anyways, I’d love to read from you guys, what subject gave you issues in secondary school? Which subject was your fav and how did you cope with the difficult ones? I’d love to read from you.