School ruined poetry

[billy]

not being a regular school goer i saw little of any education, my personal knowledge of poetry in school was tiny enough to be forgotten. that said i've seen my grand kids poetry homework and after seeing it don't think they give kids enough credit to take it in. i had a bad time with words for the reason stated. i read lots of newspapers and magazines like playboy [the pics were also good but secondary ] found an old book and read through and through. i still struggle with punctuation, as for language/s i've lived in the philippines for over ten years and can speak maybe twenty or thirty words. education as ever is generaly a few years behind science and the Cretaceous perdiod

For me, school ruined poetry, specifically years 3 through 10.
It was always forced, and never by anyone good.
It wasn't till the final 2 years that I came to have any positive relationship with language.
Did anyone else have a troubled time with the art of words?