Welcome to School Sucks!

I never planned to write about school. Honestly, I tried to bury it. But classrooms, chalkboards, teachers, and disasters have a way of following you into adulthood. The only way to come to terms with it all is to write it out.

That is what this blog is.

School Sucks! is a poetic memoir, a mix of poems, anecdotes, and satirical reflections on stumbling through childhood, surviving the teenage years, wrestling with university, and somehow ending up a teacher.

I am not against school, and I believe in the power of education. But I am skeptical of the way school shapes us, how it crowns some and crushes others. This project lives in the messy middle: the detentions, the awkward crushes, the failures, the absurd victories that shaped who I became.

Each post will bring you a poem. Some funny, some bitter, some tender, some ridiculous. Together they tell a story: how a mediocre student became a teacher, how failure turned into survival, and how humor carried me through the chaos.

Think of this space as a free archive. Read a poem, laugh, cringe, nod along. Share it with someone who hated school, or someone who loved it too much.

In time, these words will grow into books, maybe even a box set you can hold in your hands. But for now, it begins here, with you, and with poems that refuse to stay quiet.

Welcome to detention.
Welcome to survival.
Welcome to School Sucks!

Omar Sanda

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