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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]ProfessorGAC
(65,717 posts)I think you'll like this story.
I was in honors classes, so we took five majors, religion & a minor. No gym class for the honors kids.
Being on school teams counted for part of the state PE requirements, the rest had to be filled through intramurals & other clubs. I played basketball & ran track, the played flag football & volleyball intramurals.
Anyway, everyone had to take typing first semester sophomore year. Starting 2nd semester, all term papers had to be typed.
Now, my mom was a transcriptionist. Wore headphones and typed testimony or letters from dictation. (Executive secretary before I was born, and worked in a law office when my sister turned 10. I had graduated college by then.)
Because of that, I knew how to touch type before I could write in cursive. Maybe 6 years old.
First day of typing class, I walk in with a couple pals, take a seat, grabbed a sheet of paper, put it in the platen, opened the text book & started typing what was in the book.
Without me seeing him, the teacher came in, walked over to where I was sitting & yanked the paper out of the platen. He thought I was screwing around.
He looks at it, turns the book so he could read it, compared the two, and said "Why don't you go to the gym & shoot hoops during this class."
So, I got out of typing class, and got gym without taking gym!