What was your favorite school subject back in the day ? No, lunch doesn't count ! I think mine was Reading. I did the work then just goofed off. Did you have a favorite teacher that you still think about ?
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Favorite school subject ?
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English, art, and music, and I do still think of some of my teachers sometimes. One of them I actually still talk with. I used to go back and visit quite a bit, but don't have much time for that anymore.
Gosh, I think I had a great school life, except I'm an artist and I had THE worst art teachers in high school. I loathed the class and the teachers.
In grades 1-7, my favourite subject was language arts/English.
In grades 7-8, it was science.
In grade 9, it was communications technology. This teacher gave me pirated software once, LOL. He's one of my favourites, but I don't keep in touch.
In grades 10-12, it was Japanese. She was my favourite teacher for all the years I had her, and she's a super cool lady. I went and visited her a few times after graduating high school, and even after university - I believe it was last summer I'd gone to see her. She said if she ever took the yacht up to our neck of the woods (friend and I went to see her, friend was living up here before I moved for school), we could meet up and get some sushi together, haha.
An earlier favourite was the was the reason I liked science in grades 7 and 8. I volunteered to mark for her after I started high school since my schools were close to each other, so I'd just walk back over, but I haven't talked to her for several years. I had another favourite, an English teacher in grade 11 but later found she didn't see the value in the lives of smaller pets and was quite callous when I confided in her about my recently deceased parrot, so I booted her out of the favourite spot pretty promptly after that incident.
My 10th grade English teacher... He was my least favourite when he was actually my teacher because he was mean as all getout (was new to the school, wanted to prove he wasn't one to be messed with) but after I finished his class and the ill-behaved students weren't lumped in with me, he turned out to be super awesome. Was very invested and interested in the art of his students, a big game and comics nerd, and I still keep in contact with him now. He begs for me to contact him to be a voice actor in any of my future productions.
I visited him all through university too. He's more of a friend now than anything.
Another super awesome teacher I had was a prof in university that I had class with 3 times a week for almost my entire university career. He was the first person to recognize that people "get" course material and can think critically and discuss in writing or practical projects even if they didn't always verbalize in seminar, and that was the first time I felt someone understood that shy or introverted students weren't dumb, especially in an environment like post-secondary school. He saw each student as an individual and didn't lecture/talk at us - he learned with us and from us in pure seminar settings. Of course, being as awesome as he is, he is the favourite of very many who graduated decades ago and still check back in with him to say thanks. I stay in contact with him off and on, but he's retiring so I can't go visit him unless I want to grab a coffee with him on one of my visits back home.
I really miss the teachers I got along well with! I have most of them on Facebook though (but I've also always been "that kid" who has their parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles on Facebook).
In grades 1-7, my favourite subject was language arts/English.
In grades 7-8, it was science.
In grade 9, it was communications technology. This teacher gave me pirated software once, LOL. He's one of my favourites, but I don't keep in touch.
In grades 10-12, it was Japanese. She was my favourite teacher for all the years I had her, and she's a super cool lady. I went and visited her a few times after graduating high school, and even after university - I believe it was last summer I'd gone to see her. She said if she ever took the yacht up to our neck of the woods (friend and I went to see her, friend was living up here before I moved for school), we could meet up and get some sushi together, haha.
An earlier favourite was the was the reason I liked science in grades 7 and 8. I volunteered to mark for her after I started high school since my schools were close to each other, so I'd just walk back over, but I haven't talked to her for several years. I had another favourite, an English teacher in grade 11 but later found she didn't see the value in the lives of smaller pets and was quite callous when I confided in her about my recently deceased parrot, so I booted her out of the favourite spot pretty promptly after that incident.
My 10th grade English teacher... He was my least favourite when he was actually my teacher because he was mean as all getout (was new to the school, wanted to prove he wasn't one to be messed with) but after I finished his class and the ill-behaved students weren't lumped in with me, he turned out to be super awesome. Was very invested and interested in the art of his students, a big game and comics nerd, and I still keep in contact with him now. He begs for me to contact him to be a voice actor in any of my future productions.
Another super awesome teacher I had was a prof in university that I had class with 3 times a week for almost my entire university career. He was the first person to recognize that people "get" course material and can think critically and discuss in writing or practical projects even if they didn't always verbalize in seminar, and that was the first time I felt someone understood that shy or introverted students weren't dumb, especially in an environment like post-secondary school. He saw each student as an individual and didn't lecture/talk at us - he learned with us and from us in pure seminar settings. Of course, being as awesome as he is, he is the favourite of very many who graduated decades ago and still check back in with him to say thanks. I stay in contact with him off and on, but he's retiring so I can't go visit him unless I want to grab a coffee with him on one of my visits back home.
I really miss the teachers I got along well with! I have most of them on Facebook though (but I've also always been "that kid" who has their parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles on Facebook).
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My favorite subject was always history. I think if I had majored in history I would have finished college. I was trying to be practical, thinking what could I do with a history degree besides teach history. Of course a degree in anything is better than no degree when it comes to employment.
Art. Always art. I took it all four years of high school and it excelled in it. It was my best grade, always 90 percentile and I loved more than just creating art. The history of it and learning where it came from, who, how and why the artists painted, drew, sketched, sculpted what they did.
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I'm a long way removed from my high school days, but my favorite subjects were always history and English. Math was my least favorite I don't remember too many of my teachers, so I can't really say who my favorite was. I can't remember any that were really bad.
In college (2 year college), I disliked my Sociology teacher because she would skip class so often and the assignment were so lame. Also had one for Industrial Revolution or some such thing who did nothing more than read from the text book. I was also PO'd at him because he marked several answers wrong on my final that I proved to him with the text book were correct. But he still marked them off and dropped my grade to B.
In college (2 year college), I disliked my Sociology teacher because she would skip class so often and the assignment were so lame. Also had one for Industrial Revolution or some such thing who did nothing more than read from the text book. I was also PO'd at him because he marked several answers wrong on my final that I proved to him with the text book were correct. But he still marked them off and dropped my grade to B.
My favorite was gym. I loved to play sports in my younger days. I loved the cooking class in Home Eco. but hated the sewing part.
I never took algebra when I was in high school because I majored in business. So when I went to college, I needed a couple math classes for my Geography major. I decided to teach myself algebra and then test out of College Algebra for math credits. It took me a while, all that 2x + 3y stuff had me confused and I simply could not "get it". My son, who was a Physics major in college, sat me down one night and we went over and over and over with it. And then finally, my son said he actually saw the lightbulb come on in my head. And I got it.
I loved algebra. Kept working my way through it and I passed the test that I needed to take to get out of taking the class. Thanks to my son.....I never could have done it without him. Especially some of those word problems. "If a train leaves Station A and goes 49 miles a hour and another train leaves Station B and goes 59 miles a hour......." Oy. But I managed.
One of my favorite teachers was Mrs. Mertz, when I was in 6th grade. She taught Geography and she was amazing. When I was going to college, she saw my mother in a store in town one afternoon and when Mom told her that I finally made it to school and was majoring in Geography, Mom said she almost cried. She thought that was awesome. She told Mom that she was upset when she found out that I had gotten pregnant and gotten married because she had always thought I'd do well in college and she was really hoping I'd go. Well, I did.....it just took me about 20 years later than she thought it should. She was one of those teachers who really cared and she followed some of her students all the way through school, making sure they were OK. She was really a wonderful woman.
I loved algebra. Kept working my way through it and I passed the test that I needed to take to get out of taking the class. Thanks to my son.....I never could have done it without him. Especially some of those word problems. "If a train leaves Station A and goes 49 miles a hour and another train leaves Station B and goes 59 miles a hour......." Oy. But I managed.
One of my favorite teachers was Mrs. Mertz, when I was in 6th grade. She taught Geography and she was amazing. When I was going to college, she saw my mother in a store in town one afternoon and when Mom told her that I finally made it to school and was majoring in Geography, Mom said she almost cried. She thought that was awesome. She told Mom that she was upset when she found out that I had gotten pregnant and gotten married because she had always thought I'd do well in college and she was really hoping I'd go. Well, I did.....it just took me about 20 years later than she thought it should. She was one of those teachers who really cared and she followed some of her students all the way through school, making sure they were OK. She was really a wonderful woman.
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