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In reply to the discussion: What class do you dislike the most in JrHigh or Senior High. Mine was Chemistry. I could not for the life of me master [View all]
debm55
(25,896 posts)97. Yes, I don't know which was worse the kid bullies or the Gym teacher bullies. TY Hlthe2b
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What class do you dislike the most in JrHigh or Senior High. Mine was Chemistry. I could not for the life of me master [View all]
debm55
Feb 2024
OP
My dad made me take Latin also, but I really liked it and I'm glad I learned it.
Ocelot II
Feb 2024
#7
I feel for you. I took Latin too, foolishly, as I went to school in Tucson, Az...
brush
Feb 2024
#127
I should look up if they ever taught Latin in NYC schools. Maybe earlier on (was in JHS in '67)
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#157
Latin wasn't offered in our school at all. JH and HS had French, German and Spanish. Pittsburgh area.
debm55
Feb 2024
#161
I know. Even though I played basketball, my first love was Art class. So I was a nerd, who was socially inept(as one
debm55
Feb 2024
#11
Ocelot II , in JR High(my last year for Home Ec and Sewing, ) I got a "D" in sewing and a "D" in Cooking
debm55
Feb 2024
#18
Yeah... I played team tennis in junior and Senior high school, but before that gym class just sucked...
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#83
Yes, I don't know which was worse the kid bullies or the Gym teacher bullies. TY Hlthe2b
debm55
Feb 2024
#97
I agree,. Did you teach in a particular order? My High taught Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and then Trig, But I have
debm55
Feb 2024
#35
I would hate to have gym first thing in the morning. As you know by now I really liked Geometry
debm55
Feb 2024
#98
I think you have to be left brained ?to really enjoy it. I also took Drafting Classes.And your teacher sounded like a
debm55
Feb 2024
#111
Cool! I haven't been in there in a good while. Will take a look. What kind of jewelry?
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#173
Loved my first year of Spanish , hated the second year. The teacher was a goon and stuck her finger in everyone's face.
debm55
Feb 2024
#14
My high school chemistry class is the reason I'm a chemist. I loved it, still do. I feel fortunate to say that...
NNadir
Feb 2024
#12
My school had tracks for classes I was always in the top track and I felt alone in those classes. No fun, just from the
debm55
Feb 2024
#17
I agree, May I ask you a question.? Were into art or Drafting. I took Drafting as an elective and l love geormetry. I
debm55
Feb 2024
#64
I hated Algebra I because of the teacher. Just got by with a C , In Algrbra 2 I got an A, It was how the class was
debm55
Feb 2024
#37
Chainfire, My Algrbra 1 was like that. If you got it, you got it. Her pets all sat in the front. She left the rest of
debm55
Feb 2024
#101
Don't be overconcerned about the principal. He was a mean drunk and womanizer.
Chainfire
Feb 2024
#140
Freddie, I hated it too. I agree about the sadistic bullies. We were required to take swimming. Part of that was diving.
debm55
Feb 2024
#20
It was required in the District. All Sophomores had to take it. As part of swimming , we did diving and earned a Life
debm55
Feb 2024
#162
Eeeek! :( I *am* glad our parents did teach us swimming through the YWCA
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#164
What is odd is my husband was from Boston and didn't have swimming in HS and lived next to the ocean. All we had around
debm55
Feb 2024
#165
Yes, I too it was the teaching. I would sew my own clothes and cook from a yound age, However, I got a D in Cooking and
debm55
Feb 2024
#39
Polly that is funny, I remember the bobbin. Made alot of my clothing and cooked from a early age. Parent were angry
debm55
Feb 2024
#40
Agree, but I wanted to be a nurse, so I worked my ass of in Biology and the sciences to be get A.s Even if i had a hard
debm55
Feb 2024
#67
TexasBushwhacker, I see your point. It was something that I always wondered about in HS. TY
debm55
Feb 2024
#103
Wow, though since he could't teach , maybe the films taught the Kids. When I was teaching ,we had a teacher that did
debm55
Feb 2024
#122
Yes, but if you had a good teacher they would have had used that as a springboard and had the class make quilts as a
debm55
Feb 2024
#104
As was mine, I was in AP chemistry. based on my previous years grades.I needed a more slower paced class.and a teacher
debm55
Feb 2024
#109
I am very sorry for you Jamastiene, All I remember about health was the Health Teacher who was also a Gym Teacher
debm55
Feb 2024
#110
That is a shame it went that way at both schools. I hated when teacher had nothing to teach so we Played one of two
debm55
Feb 2024
#112
Beausoleil, that is great.But I must admit I studied for two years to become a Nursing Sister of Charity.
debm55
Feb 2024
#114
Ha hahahahahahaha. I remember asking the priest about Alpha and Omega. Priest gave me this answer that it is Based on
debm55
Feb 2024
#66
Was that at Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt????? I went for 8 years? Did you have Mass everyday.?
debm55
Feb 2024
#113
Our whole school attended Mass everyday. 8:00 Mass. Confession every Saturday. What sin could a 7 year old have? I used
debm55
Feb 2024
#142
You are envied by everyone on this board for getting out of gym. Especially the communal showers. With the teacher
debm55
Feb 2024
#43
It was, especially with the teacher standing there with a strap so every got in,
debm55
Feb 2024
#197
I understand how you feel subterranean. We moved from a steel mill town to upper middle class suburbs, Went to Catholic
debm55
Feb 2024
#46
I think you are the same type of learner as I am. and the teacher I became. Memorizing , you forget . Mix the hands on
debm55
Feb 2024
#47
My motto was you do , you learn . I had a 9th grade science class. Never once did we do one single experiment . Not one
debm55
Feb 2024
#48
So sorry for you Wicked Bue. I hated both of the classes because of poor teachers
debm55
Feb 2024
#147
Niagara, I taught Earth Science in Sixth Grade. We made sedimentary Sandwiches., Made parachutes for raw eggs for me
debm55
Feb 2024
#72
Yes , That;s a prestigious one to get. Wasn't it for four years.? Congratulations
debm55
Feb 2024
#116
Not exactly a class but sort of encapsulated my HS years: listening to the nearby surf, as I stared out the window
AnotherMother4Peace
Feb 2024
#56
Oops - sorry - I read this as "liked". My excuse is: it's early, I didn't have my tea yet, & I didn't finish HS.
AnotherMother4Peace
Feb 2024
#57
There were no calculators then and had to use a slideruler. I still can not figure that thing out. So I would do the
debm55
Feb 2024
#68
Agree. this teacher wrote so many formulas on the board that we had to write down. It was a joke that kids would say
debm55
Feb 2024
#123
You are right. Was there any way to take that in HS. My HS had 2100 students in three grades, Shool had a book of
debm55
Feb 2024
#148
Gidney N. Cloyd, agree with your post. As a student going into nursing I was required to take Anatomy. We had to carry
debm55
Feb 2024
#175
Pilot programs are useless. I went to Catholic grade school. But during the 42 years I taught they came and went. ------
debm55
Feb 2024
#71
Agree, I knew how to sew from a very early age.I made most of my clothing. I always wondered if that was the problem--
debm55
Feb 2024
#177
Hated Algebra I but loved Geometry and Algebra 2. TY happybird. I really believer it goes along with the teacher.
debm55
Feb 2024
#180
I was marginally athletic in school, but I HATED gym class--full of bullies and that
hlthe2b
Feb 2024
#79
I hear ya. But I would have liked the opportunity to try to make some . In our school shop was closed to girls.
debm55
Feb 2024
#211
Nay, we have our likes and dislikes. I did however married a man who had his PhD in Chemical Engineering. Does that help
debm55
Feb 2024
#212
Wow, BlueKota what a wonderful teaching couple. I am so happy they helped you. Wonder why your Geometry teacher couldn't
debm55
Feb 2024
#179
Yes at the time, CAL Berkeley had Japanese classes and I took THREE years of it
YoshidaYui
Feb 2024
#218
I enjoyed the class matterial but hated the teacher. She announced in class , that there was one student that never
debm55
Feb 2024
#185
My school was very large, in the suburbs and lily white. There were bigots in my Soc, class and they made no attempt to
debm55
Feb 2024
#216
I took Anatomy as I wanted to be a nurse., I remember the open classrooms of that time, TY
debm55
Feb 2024
#125
We had to dissect a cat in Anatomy. It was required for nursing and medical students. Hated it.
debm55
Feb 2024
#181
That was in HS right? We did the shark, Feral pig also. But the cat is to me as it was more of a pet.type animal' Did
debm55
Feb 2024
#194
I had friends who went to Ohio State for their Vet School. As far as I know , there are none in PA.
debm55
Feb 2024
#200
Wow. that would be very crappy to be in his class. I am surprised he was wasn't reprimanded for using that language.
debm55
Feb 2024
#124
Jeebo, I am so sorry for you. They can could have found a way to have you undress in a separate room or just wear your
debm55
Feb 2024
#144
Typing. I needed a credit, took it and hated it until college research and then
Silent Type
Feb 2024
#128
And the bully gym teachers who would tease, hit, make fun out of kids that didn't measure up to their standards.
debm55
Feb 2024
#145
TY sakabatou. In my experience, it was more of the teacher"s lack of caring if some of the students got it or not.
debm55
Feb 2024
#155
I agree. I loved Art and Geometry. Got a BS in Art Education in college. Chemistry, I hated.
debm55
Feb 2024
#158
I noticed you, ?Diamond Dog, and I both loved Art and we're good at Geometry...
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#160
I really think it's a left brain/right brain thinking. Ty you for bringing that up. I was noticing the amount of
debm55
Feb 2024
#178
Typing. In HS we were sent 1x/wk for a semester to another school for typing!...
electric_blue68
Feb 2024
#168
Gee my school must have been big as we had five wings . The center wing was fpr business class. As a college prep
debm55
Feb 2024
#169
Guess what? They are downsizing the school. They had 2 junior high schools. Closed both and merged with high school. The
debm55
Feb 2024
#176
So sorry for your family, brother and you. My situation was the same in 9th grade--sister had a brain tumor, She was
debm55
Feb 2024
#203
PufPuf, that was alot of moving around and adjustments for you. No wonder it was hard. In my Catholic grade school it
debm55
Feb 2024
#201
Pufpuf23, I am deeply saddened with what you went througn. We are both survivors of a system that should be child
debm55
Feb 2024
#217
HAHAHAH Way to go, jmowreader.. As i look at your post I think the teacher should have assigned scenes. and let the
debm55
Feb 2024
#199
Gym. We had a lot of jocks in my class year. I didn't care for Latin my last 2 years.
RKP5637
Feb 2024
#202
