What does ironic mean again?

Answer 1

I transferred from a Catholic high school because they were forcing the student body to wear school uniforms. I transferred to a public high school which was much larger and impersonal, and where the teachers seemed indifferent to whether you learned the material or not. I did not thrive in that environment and dropped out a year later. I joined the navy and thus began my education in the 'school of hard knocks'.

The irony is that I left a school where I was doing alright, albeit with some poking and prodding from the nuns; only to eventually dropping out of school and going into a service where I spent 13 years wearing a uniform.