Definitely history! My 2 teachers were the MOST boring teachers and just expected rote memorization. Now that I'm homeschooling (15 yrs. now) I love learning all that I missed and experiencing it with my kids.

(Gym was one of my favorites, probably because I had my mom for 8 yrs as a teacher (small K - 12 school) and I went into PE/Science/Math as a teacher, too. Too bad your teachers didn't teach about the rules of the game and have a sense of humor! Understanding the game/sport is so much more important that being able to do it, unless you are competing in it.)

Cabin Clan

My least favorite history. The only part of History that I enjoyed was the 6 weeks we learned the History of Rock n Roll. Now that class I would retake over and over again.

American History. DOn't get me wrong, I love American History, but in hgh school I had the worst teacher. He spent more time flirting with all the girls in class than actually teaching anything.

Florida Sunsets

English my sophomore year. I loves English as a whole but my teacher that semester thought she was a medieval goddess and that was tough to take. She was very strict and when we had to stand up in front of the class and recite ALL of "to be or not to be" without pausing in an incorrect place or skipping or mispronouncing a word or without perfect fluidity we were instantly marked down a grade. NOBODY passed that "test" not even our class valedictorian! Most of us knew we were going to get an F anyway so we didn't even bother to learn it all. The rest of the semester in that class went the same way...I did manage to pass it though : )
I did love gym....if you played a school sport you didn't have to take gym and you got an automatic A for that semester. Easy enough, I did indoor track, outdoor track and badminton all through high school so I never had to take gym...just health class.

What is/was your least favorite class in Middle/high school?

Driver's Ed. Not because of the subject, but because of the teacher. I went to a smaller school which didn't carry the course, so we had to go to one of the larger high schools. The teacher was completely creepy. I was really impressed by the fact that the guys in the class recognized it and worked it out so that one of them would always be with us when we had to do our driving time with the teacher. They always walked us out to our cars when the class was done and made sure none of the girls was last to leave.
Most kids are excited about Driver's Ed because it means they finally get their license. We were glad to get our licenses too, but also glad to get away from Mr. Sullivan.

S

I loved my high school gym class! It was very educational.

During ping-pong I learned how to hit moving targets. (Our gymnasium had a balcony. The ping-pong tables were set up up there. While half the class was playing ping-pong the other half was on the main floor playing basketball. We got really good at hitting people in the head with the ping-pong balls.)

During tennis I honed my skills at hitting moving targets yet again. (A well timed lob over the fence would stop traffic every time!)

During golf I learned how to make a fire during a rain storm. (It helps if you have a couple boyscouts in your group.) And I learned to never accept golf cart rides from little old ladies.
(They seem to be a bad judge of how far away swollen creeks are which result in having to make a very acute angle to cross the little wooden bridge!)

During archery I learned how to immobilize a person from the waist up using only a jean jacket. (You gotta love all those buttons on the wrists and around the waist!)

And all of this was learned without the help of a teacher! Go figure...

Ah, school memories ...

I loved all my classes except the science courses. Absolutely rotten, incompetent teachers throughout high school. And I hated Speech class.

We had fun playing tricks on the less-than-observant teachers. Our algebra teacher would have about a dozen equations written on the blackboards around the room before every class. On numerous occasions we would slyly change a minus-sign to a plus-sign, and square the variables and numbers. It was fun to see the teacher scratch his head a few times to see where he made the math error, and then realize that the original equation wasn't written accurately.

Senior year biology was bad because I had to dissect a cat. I cried the whole week in class.

I always loathed gym. People used to fight over who HAD to have me on their team. "She's not on OUR team! Yeah? Well she's not ou OUR team!" Oh, that doesn't hurt the self esteem!

Which is why I'm totally baffled that my son, who's hardly an athlete, likes gym. He says it's because it's the only class in which he doesn't get homework! (Also, I think he has a crush on a girl in that class!)

DebBee

A cat?!?

We did pregnant sharks and some folks kept the half developed babies in jars.

wow, pregnant sharks would have been cool. We did frogs & earthworms. I drew a lovely picture of a dissected earthworm in someone's yearbook that year. Not sure if they appreciated it.

A cat?!?

We did pregnant sharks and some folks kept the half developed babies in jars.

What can I say, it was in Northeastern PA

Gym was my least favorite too. I hated soccer.

I think I would have liked gym if I'd been in the same class as Mn8X though... ;-)

Knit Wit

Math, math and math. Algebra was tolerable. Calc and Trig just fried my brain. I do NOT have a mathematically inclined brain. Geometry and basic physics, on the other hand, I liked. They're tangible, which made them a lot easier for me to understand.

I also wasn't wild about history, but now I wish I'd paid more attention. And I never had a world history class, if you can believe it!

-AG

My least favorite classes would have to be gym, history and 21st century skills. Gym because I am not athletic and have no idea what I'm supposed to do during most of the game we play and the teachers just assume everyone knows how. So I think I may just take the Walking class to get my fulfill my credit for gym. lol And history and 21st century skills because they're the most boring classes ever.

Great students here - we liked all of our classes - we liked learning and being in the learning environment.

One of us actually became a Physical Education teacher though we did not stick with it -- can't stand all of the petty rules at school (walk in line, don't talk (ever), sit here during lunch, don't move, etc.).

What we did not like was the actual school experience -- mostly the cruelty of other kids to their peers.

The funny thing is that I am a teacher now.

If my teachers could see me now....

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Great students here - we liked all of our classes - we liked learning and being in the learning environment.

Yup. Me too. Can't say I ever had a class I hated in High School. Now college....ugh... can we just say 2nd semester of Calculus?? Nightmares....

MM/123F

lovely picture of a dissected earthworm

Isn't that an oxymoron? lol

I hated government mostly b/c what he taught us was useless. It was required and I still have no idea how or why somethings are the way they are or which order they go in for sure either. I do know from it that subliminal messages do exist in music if you play it backwards (who the hell does that tho, other than the one time to see what it does?!) and that the government can't stop it b/c of freedom of speech. We listened to a lot of Judas Priest and Queen backwards and I never understood why even, God it was boring tho!

I also hated "physical science." It was an "unofficial" AP class I guess and he'd stand there and lecture us, pull out his old paddle and we'd play with it (and if we brought a signed permission slip from our parents, he'd whack us with it--why I don't know) and I spent that whole year grounded b/c I was failing it. I started the 1st semester in his "Biology" class and when I was failing again, I got out of it and went into the "Intro to Biology" class where I was told the "losers who weren't going to college went to be baby-sat" and therefore I wasn't going to get into college either.

He was also my bus driver and after that I had to get a car b/c I could not endure his bullying there either... the last time, I got off the bus before we left and walked the 6 miles home down the railroad tracks.... flipped him off too when he drove past me a couple of times too, everytime I got to a crossing he was there. He's dead now so he can't terrorize anyone else but man he made me feel bad for a while!

moonduck (who hated all the maths too but managed to pass... and then used it to play pool and get thru college, that's about it so far)

What, exactly, ARE 21st century skills?

DebBee, who couldn't even imagine the 21st century when she was in school

It's a class where you pretty much do projects the whole time. The curriculum is by the FORD PAS program. It's kind of a business type class, but not exactly. It's kind of hard to explain exactly what it is. We just finished up a project on writing directions on how to make an enveleope...with a flowchart and process table.

Lilac Butterfly

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We just finished up a project on writing directions on how to make an envelope...with a flowchart and process table.

While I agree that writing directions is an excellent skill to have, and very useful for letterboxing I might add, flowcharts and process tables give me hives! I dealt with way too many of those when I was editing documents for a government contractor to EVER want to see one again...

I completely understand your boredom.

Knit Wit

College... Ugh... Organic chemistry made me absolutely crazy! I should have taken physics...

Knit Wit

I hated my senior Government class in high school...mainly because the teacher was an...donkey. ;)
I was in a car accident at the beginning of school, and was out for awhile recovering, I had my cousin bring home homework and stuff for me during that time.
When I went back, I told my gov teacher that I needed to make up some work, tests, and whatever else I missed, and he said:
"Why didn't you get everything done already? It's not like you were dead."
Yeah, he really said that to me, I remember it clearly...I took a test I needed to make up to a study hall classroom and cried as I tried to take the test.
Jerk.
Needless to say, I didn't participate much in that class, and still to this day I have no interest in politics except for on a very basic level, which is sad really...but that's how it is.
I was glad to see that teacher retired (of course it was years after I left highschool!)

Wander Woman
*the boxer formally known as HopeAB*

mainly because the teacher was an...donkey. ;)

there is a website for lousy dates dontdatethisguy.com

there needs to be for lousy teachers- theseteacherssuck.com?

Mr Reed, from Billings MT West High....he would be the honorary chair of THAT domain.

I once got my monthy dot in his class (wearing tight white pants...)and he would NOT let me go to the restroom or to call my mom to bring me clothes. I got blood all over my seat, and finally, in tears, and with the guy who sat behind me jacket around my waist-i left anyway. And got detention. I still hate that guy. He did get arrested for shoplifting that summer, so that was a bit of karma that was worth witnessing.

Best teacher? Mr Marsh-who made me actually LIKE history. (we played history jeapordy) and Mrs. Christianson, AP English. And my frosh/soph guidance councilor-who talked me down from many emotional bridges.

College subjects. Now that's when I found stuff to truly hate. 2nd semester Calculus, they had to get me a tutor. Organic was difficult, but I took it again for fun--no, I'm not kidding. That professor was great. I really enjoyed Organic when he taught it.
KW--physics was fun. Sorry you missed it. THe biggest problem with Physics was understanding the accents of the graduate students that taught lab. When they can't pronounce letters (like h) it's hard to get the formulas right. h is in a lot of physics formulas.
Chickadee (of JR and C)

College subjects

well- since i was banned from Mr. Reeds math classes in high school- I con't to struggle with Chem and math in college, as well. Tutors and twice weekly visits to my prof's office did help-but what a giant pain in the patootey! I am glad i am out of school!

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and he would NOT let me go to the restroom or to call my mom to bring me clothes.

I had teachers like that. And, because of having to go through similar situations, I have told all three of my girls, GO! If they have to go to the bathroom, no teacher is going to keep them from going. So far (last one is only 7), not one of the three has abused the situation.

Mean people suck!

Janet, BF

I didn't hate any particular subject, I hated high school. So much that I went an extra summer and graduated at the end of the summer my junior year. Then I went to college for a year and a half and hated that too. And failed everything educationally related. Majored in smokin' and jokin', minored in fun and games. It was very frustrating to my Mom as I had been tested at 12 and showed an IQ of 138. So why am I always failing school? Just don't try, lazy, what?

So second try at higher education I try a technical community college. Viola! The truth is reveled! I'm dyslexic (sp?). I have problems reading dense material (textbooks) and following written directions (letterboxing has helped this a LOT). I spell things so badly that even I can't read my notes sometimes. My dictionary is the most used book on my desk. I rely on memory, not written material.

I'm also ADD and can't learn in a lecture class. Let me DO it, don't just tell me about it. I learned math with the Saxon workbooks and now love math stuff. If I could find Saxon type books for History I might even learn to like that also. My college degree is an Associates in Drafting and Design and I made all A's and B's because it was a doing course and not a lecture course.

You young whipper snappers don't realize that 30 - 35 years ago these types of learning disablities were not known/accepted. If you didn't learn in class, you were stupid or lazy. No other explanation allowed. I'm not lyin' when I say I quit school in seventh grade and they just made my body keep going until I was 18.