Hot for Teacher

[goathead]

Mind wanders some times

Was thinking about what did I really learn in school that I use in my everyday life.
Really tired to be honest about it.
Kind of surprised myself, of course reading I would say is a given.
So top 3 after reading.

1. Typing- never even considered it, took one year, hated it. Still suck at it, but I use it in almost every aspect of my life.
2. Math- my teachers sucked, but for some reason I enjoy it, and again use it in almost all aspects of my life on a daily basis.
3. Physics- gave me the understanding to breakdown complex system, understand how they work.

So these are my 3 high school classes that I have let me do, the things I do.

[ygmir]

I never took physics, but wish I had.
agree with math, reading and typing.

basic shop was good.

[lucky420]

I wish I would have taken school more seriously. I was smart, got good grades when I was there.

WHEN I was there...

Best classes; English, history, government

Math was and is my nemisis

[tamarakay]

Dyslexic here. Very smart, but can't test for shit. Especially those little bubble in things. Back when I was in school they did t really know what dyslexia was. According to school I just didn't try. So frustrating.

[tamarakay]

I sometimes think that if they had known back then what they know now...

[ygmir]

I sometimes think that if they had known back then what they know now...

taking that quote for my self.........."I'd still be in reform school"...............

[tamarakay]

I sometimes think that if they had known back then what they know now...

taking that quote for my self.........."I'd still be in reform school"...............

I would be President.

[ygmir]

I sometimes think that if they had known back then what they know now...

taking that quote for my self.........."I'd still be in reform school"...............

I would be President.

of the reform school?

[MikeGyver]

I was a never do the homework but ace tests student.

Preferred shop, Ag, and sometimes math. the classes that didn't need too much thought.

Im in the same Boat as you Lucky, Looking back I wish I took it more seriously, but I had different plans back then.

[tatonka]

senior year I only needed one requried class , but you had to have 7 classes to be in school ( 1973 ) so I took 3 art classes and 3 PE classes , and had a pretty good time. ")

[lucky420]

Senior classi only needed 1 credit left to graduate and we weren't required to take anymore than that. My class was 1st period. I as out by 9:30.

So we could hit Lake Tahoe or Pyramid Lake for fun and have pretty much the whole day out there

[mgb327]

Having discovered drugs and alcohol at 15, I managed to show up in school occasionally until Christmas of my Junior year. That was the end of it. Lack of education has never held me back.....

[mudpuppy000]

I pretty much screwed around all through school till I got expelled from summer school for lighting fireworks in the parking lot. That was before junior year. Got straight A's after that and went to Engineering school. I wonder what would have happened if I had studied hard all the way through.

[gaminwench]

I remember English classes (Mrs. Kingston, FTW) and music classes.

All the rest has been blocked.
I somehow graduated near the top of my class, but if you ask me to do the MATHS now ...

[Lonesomebri]

First year of high school there was an assembly where we were given the teachers choice of student council candidates. The next year I ran for President against the honor students and athletic heroes. My grades were crap, my attendance terrible, the teachers either hated, humored or pitied me. But the outcasts counted me as their own, and there are more of us than the in-casts. During the weeks of campaigning I passed out beer in the parking lot during the Friday night football games, among other things. Were these actions ethical? Depends on who you ask. We put small campaign stickers on every clock in school, the one place all the students at the time would look. The day of the election was electric. They waited until 5 minutes before the finale bell of the day to announce that someone else had won. I had the populace but not the election. It was a coup. Later I was told by a few people that members of the PTA counted the votes, but were told not to count mine. A teacher told me the next week in the cafeteria that I could not win because I had cheated, which was true. But other than that, yeah, I was a good kid, a regular scholar.

[goathead]

But do you use any of that crap today?
Bueller, Bueller

[graidawg]

Hehehe ask me about school sometime, I was a terror I realised teachers can't control you if you don't let them very early on.

[lucky420]

First year of high school there was an assembly where we were given the teachers choice of student council candidates. The next year I ran for President against the honor students and athletic heroes. My grades were crap, my attendance terrible, the teachers either hated, humored or pitied me. But the outcasts counted me as their own, and there are more of us than the in-casts. During the weeks of campaigning I passed out beer in the parking lot during the Friday night football games, among other things. Were these actions ethical? Depends on who you ask. We put small campaign stickers on every clock in school, the one place all the students at the time would look. The day of the election was electric. They waited until 5 minutes before the finale bell of the day to announce that someone else had won. I had the populace but not the election. It was a coup. Later I was told by a few people that members of the PTA counted the votes, but were told not to count mine. A teacher told me the next week in the cafeteria that I could not win because I had cheated, which was true. But other than that, yeah, I was a good kid, a regular scholar.

Definetly would have voted for you

[DoctorIknow]

1-Typing and geometry
2-wood shop
3-metal shop

At my school, 10th graders HAD to learn typing until they could do 70 words per minute. I was wasting time there until it looked like I might be the last one out, which wouldn't do at all. The only problem was we didn't need to touch type the numbers....still can't do it.

Geometry was the only class I ever got A's in...loved it....spacial relationships!

Wood and metal shop....I feel sorry for kids now, as no way in hell do schools have that anymore. Their lawyers would think a hacksaw is a dangerous tool...

[Ratty]

We had 9 periods a day.
Barely had time to sit down and the class was over.
In high school I never learned my locker combo.
Passed art by letting them do a death mask on me.
Drama by making a diarama.
Science by doing the teachers ironing.
You don't want to know how I passed the rest.
Then there were no more periods. Just kids and a husband.
Married people wern't allowed to go to high school. Guess I should have been an unwed mother.

[VultureChow]

I was a nerd jock. But math. Math was always good. I was on the fast math track which was a problem for the school. It would have meant hitting calculus in 11th grade and doing multivariate calc senior year. But since they didn't want an extra class, they put us in a holding pattern for a year so the other kids could catch up. We had a Russian teacher Mrs. Rakova. She had been a headmaster in Russia. Eventually she realized we were all bored with what was basically a refresher course, and went totally off book. Brought in mathematicians from nearby colleges. New visualization software. It was spectacular.

[AntiM]

Dad was in the Navy, a different school every year, often in a different state with different curriculum. I had a lot of gaps, and I was always the new kid. Teachers never knew what to do with me, I was incredibly book smart and astonishing at testing, read at a 12th grade level at age ten, but had no application skills. I went to 14 different schools before I dropped out, took the GED and went to college after a year in SF. I never had a senior year.

Sewing in 8th grade was good, and Persian history in ninth was annoying but fascinating, creative writing in 10th, and I liked photography, drama, and ceramics in 11th. American and world history seemed dull after visiting Williamsburg and Jamestown, and doing stuff like touching the Berlin War while the East German guards watched warily. English class was actual dumbed down in Utah, I'd been taking more advance courses in Iran. My math was so spotty they stuck me in remedial math and taught me to read dials and calipers (which was practical). My science courses had been life science in 7th grade, geology aka Earth Science (??), and a course in anatomy, taught mostly in Latin, French and Farsi, in 9th grade. I wanted to take wood shop, but was not allowed because I didn't have a penis.

I picked up more basics in college, but I really learned algebra and physics in the Navy when I became a electronics tech. What really filled in my "gaps" was seven years of substitute teaching in a DoDDS school in Japan after I separated from the service. I knuckled down on fractions, percents and decimals because I had to teach them to 6th graders. I learned the basics of biology and geometry and more physics. I always got to cover human sexuality because the coach taught that, and the section fell during soccer finals. I picked up basic keyboard skills subbing typing. English and history were alright; I finally saw how well they could be taught. I covered ESL and special ed, gym and band class, and the video kids class, and even had to really teach cosmetology for six weeks because the new teacher never showed up. I even subbed for the office secretaries and the nurse. I was the super-sub. So I learned more in a high school as a part time teacher than I ever did as a student.

[BeeWeeDee]

Home room - First hour of the day - Ogling Katie McCarthy - dreaming about those warm soft luscious curves. Continues to this day.

Then there was drug awareness that fostered a healthy curiosity that also continues to this day.

Chemistry (see item 2)