What was your favorite subject in school?

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Dammit my pea brain forget the best class.

@ProfessorPlum77 I went to tech school for electronics and had to change courses from technical to servicing because I got in a fight with a math teacher for demeaning the students that weren't grasping the formulas used in circuit analysis. He was just awful to them and I got so pissed I skipped his classes for a week and a half. The Dean came and pulled me out of a lab class and gave me options. Repeat the whole semester with the same math instructor or go into the servicing curriculum. I said as long as that SOB is teaching here I won't go through it again. He's doing this school a disservice. Two years later he was fired. The school was Ryder Tech and has since been taken over by Lincoln Tech.

@Gibbon My goodness.

@ProfessorPlum77 Yeah it was a bummer getting an electronic servicing diploma instead of an Associates. But as you can see from your jobs post it still paid off well for me. I survived every layoff and only got stung when General Dynamics stole the work from our division and gave to another to save and shut us down as a result. But I got a small pension out of it and big severance which allowed me to get out the house I could no longer afford and pay a years rent forward where I currently live as good faith payment since I was unemployed.

@SmileOnYourBrother You must be a math person.

@ProfessorPlum77 Eh 🤷 ... I just liked it. Numbers don't lie. lol

@ProfessorPlum77 I think I just like to figure things out on my own rather than have programmed information shoved down my throat to memorize. Does that make sense?

@SethGreene531 Interesting.

@hippyjoe1955 I agree about math and physics.

@BizSuitStacy Another math person.

@SunshineGirl You actually got that right, the north was blockading the southern states from trading their tobacco and cotton with the UK and Europe, they had gotten immensely wealthy from it, and the north was jealous. The spark was when southern trade ships fired upon the north occupied southern port of Fort Sumpter, South Carolina, to run one such blockade. The rewritten portion is that modern public school textbooks essentially ignore those parts and focus on slavery. The truth is that the HUGE major majority of Confederate soldiers did not care about slavery, most of them actually opposed it, what they cared about and fought for was how the northern Yankees were encroaching on their state's rights, as the 9th and 10th amendments guaranteed, which the north was ignoring.

@NativePortlander1970 But slavery (and the way in which it distorted international markets) was still a factor, right? And the subsequent path of history - in which the property rights of former slave owners in the south took precedence over racial integration and basic human rights - might be a reason why some people take an interest in that particular facet. While others choose to interpret it in terms of constitutional ideals. History belongs to everyone. All views are welcome.

@SunshineGirl Slavery played a very, very small part in the war, Abraham Lincoln actually didn't even focus on it until 1863, two years into it, in fact during the famous 1860 Lincoln-Douglas debate, attendees wrote in diaries, journals, and in letters to others, that they essentially laughed and joked about slavery issues when they came up. I read one such letter, my late ex fiancee's ex brother in law is a massive civil war buff and participates in re-enactments with his New Jersey group, he has a huge collection of artifacts and papers from it.