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Reply to: #181940 by Eidolon
Feb 1, 2008 7:12am
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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
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Reply to: #181924 by Mn8X
Feb 1, 2008 7:17am
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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
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Reply to: #181834 by Suzy Lou
Feb 1, 2008 7:25am
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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
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Reply to: #181834 by Suzy Lou
Feb 1, 2008 7:49am
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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.
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Reply to: #181834 by Suzy Lou
Feb 1, 2008 7:52am
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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.
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Reply to: #181968 by TRH N T
Feb 1, 2008 7:57am
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The funny thing is that I am a teacher now.

If my teachers could see me now....
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Reply to: #181968 by TRH N T
Feb 1, 2008 8:04am
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Quote 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
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Reply to: #181941 by Sheba
Feb 1, 2008 8:23am
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lovely picture of a dissected earthworm


Isn't that an oxymoron? lol
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Reply to: #181992 by Butterfly Suzy
Feb 1, 2008 9:18am
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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)
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Reply to: #181964 by Lilac Butterfly
Feb 1, 2008 9:22am
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What, exactly, ARE 21st century skills?

DebBee, who couldn't even imagine the 21st century when she was in school
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Reply to: #182017 by DebBee
Feb 1, 2008 9:34am
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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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Reply to: #182021 by Lilac Butterfly
Feb 1, 2008 11:30am
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Quote 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
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Reply to: #181979 by She Runs
Feb 1, 2008 11:31am
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College... Ugh... Organic chemistry made me absolutely crazy! I should have taken physics...

Knit Wit
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Reply to: #182066 by knit wit
Feb 1, 2008 1:19pm
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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*
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Reply to: #182121 by snapdragon.retired
Feb 1, 2008 4:36pm
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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.
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Reply to: #182068 by knit wit
Feb 1, 2008 5:03pm
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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)
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Reply to: #182230 by Jolly Roger and Chickadee
Feb 1, 2008 5:06pm
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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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Reply to: #182219 by scraphappy
Feb 3, 2008 7:36pm
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Quote 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
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Reply to: #182930 by Blooming Flower
Feb 4, 2008 6:16am
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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.
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Reply to: #183024 by judithandsparky
Feb 4, 2008 10:09am
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I remember hearing a comidian once say.

"When I was a kid, they spelled ADD...B-R-A-T"

I have a nephew who was labled as "slow" when he was a kid. He's 38 now, and he still has a tough time with it sometimes.

We hear about how lables hurt, but it can go pretty deep sometimes.

I had a lot of classes that I loved, hated, was indifferent. I was an average student who probably could have done better.

I had an English prof in college. It was actually more interesting watching the second hand on my wrist watch than listening to him.

In high school, I was lucky enough to have Mr. Kovaleski for history.

He was the type of teacher who would jump on top of his desk to imitate a kamakaze airplane

seriously

=0D
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Reply to: #183108 by Sits N Knits
Feb 4, 2008 10:36am
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Quote He was the type of teacher who would jump on top of his desk to imitate a kamakaze airplane


That is just... so cool!

My favorite high school history teacher was Coach Crawford for World History. He called all the students "Mr." or "Miss" plus the last name. He made us feel so grownup! We would have debates, he would lecture, he would have us research and teach the class. He never had to yell at us to behave or raise his voice at all. Heck, he never even stood up from his desk except to write something on the board.

Then there was Dr. Vipperman in college--US History up to 1865. He didn't even bring in notes. He told us stories complete with color commentary and play-by-plays of all the important events from 1066 to 1865. Yep, he said, "You won't understand why the Pilgrims came here unless you know how the government in England developed following the Norman Conquest." It was fun flying through those 800 years though. :-)

Knit Wit
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Reply to: #181916 by LUNA crew
Apr 4, 2008 8:43am
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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


to be or not to be, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
That's all I know of that one.
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Apr 4, 2008 10:28am
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To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--
To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action. -- Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.

Scraphappy aka
thespian nerd
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Reply to: #209179 by scraphappy
Apr 4, 2008 10:59am
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wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

SJ
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Reply to: #209179 by scraphappy
Apr 4, 2008 11:13am
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*Fluffy Cow giving a standing ovation*
Bravo! Bravo!
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Reply to: #209209 by Fluffy Cow
Apr 4, 2008 12:54pm
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*bowing modestly*

thanks you....I am glad my English lit minor and theatre major have come in handy somewhere. :)

Scraphappy
who is now an RN-and wishing that stage makeup classes could have counted as
credit for something! (wound care 101? I do do a mean bandage....)
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Reply to: #209255 by scraphappy
Apr 4, 2008 12:58pm
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Being a nurse does require a bit of acting... "This won't hurt a bit"

hee hee hee
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Reply to: #209255 by scraphappy
Apr 4, 2008 3:25pm
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I do do a mean bandage


Scrap -- don't do do on the bandage, mean or otherwise... :D
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Reply to: #209317 by Butterfly Suzy
Apr 4, 2008 7:52pm
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Quote I do do a mean bandage



Well, if it's mean, I guess it deserves it! LOL!!!

moonshowr
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Apr 5, 2008 12:25pm
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Scrap -- don't do do on the bandage, mean or otherwise... :D


LOL! You have a 'sick' sense of humor...there must be nurse in you somewhere! :)