What was your favorite subject in school?
My favorite subjects were English and history.
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Gibbon · 70-79, M
Math and History especially because of one high school teachers open approach and telling it like it is. He didn't twist anything like they are trying to do now. He also explained all the forms of government at the time without bias and let us use our own minds to evaluate them.
Math? Mah. I had changed counties going into high school and found I was a year ahead of the curriculum in doing so. It was smooth sailing through graduation. But I'm baffled with the ways it's being taught now and fear I'd find myself fighting over the methodology. I'm glad I don't have to experience that.
English I never got passed C's in testing yet I Aced creative writing under the same teacher. To me that said I was better than those tests implied.
Math? Mah. I had changed counties going into high school and found I was a year ahead of the curriculum in doing so. It was smooth sailing through graduation. But I'm baffled with the ways it's being taught now and fear I'd find myself fighting over the methodology. I'm glad I don't have to experience that.
English I never got passed C's in testing yet I Aced creative writing under the same teacher. To me that said I was better than those tests implied.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@Gibbon Interesting.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@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.
ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP
@Gibbon My goodness.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@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.
