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comment_3535182

As I sit around and watch my students take thier test, I thought it would be interesting to know what your favorite class in high school was. Was it because of the subject material? Was it because of the specific teacher? Was it because it was easy? Was it because you could skip and still pass the class? So, what was your favorite class and why?

comment_3535303

My favorite class in high school was Sociology in terms of the subject matter, the open discussion and the teaching quality. Sadly, it was only a semester course and there was nothing you could take after the intro.

 

The most fun "class" was me being a teacher's aide 6th period of senior year when she didn't even need a teacher's aid. I sat in there with a really good friend of mine, who was the other teacher's aid, and we just listened to music the whole time and talked. The teacher was out of the room the majority of the time.

comment_3535430

My favorite class was basic C++ (most comparable to CSC 115), because I did almost literally nothing in it besides surf the internet and watch these two megaposers sitting next to me (and, well, everyone else in the class) make asses of themselves on a daily basis. It also provides me with the wonderful memories of my teacher punching my monitor like a dumbass thinking it'd fix a problem, and all the token asian and token female comments.

 

The most fun class was US History, because the debates were not only good, but pretty damned funny. Our teacher kicked ass for someone so painfully white and nerdy, and everyone got to goof around and go off on tangents in class, although the homework was unbearable for anyone who hates writing by hand. Also, I got to impress people with my originality :) ...... until next year in AP Euro everyone was at or above my level and I lost participation points every day <_<

comment_3535432

My Modern European and Canadian History courses. Both were taught by the same teacher, which was part of the reason. The guy was just an excellent teacher (even if he looked like Santa's evil twin) and plus, I like history.

 

We'd also have weekly debates on various things; how would so-and-so be remembered if they did this instead of this, what if these guys won this war, etc. Good stuff.

comment_3535491

Ah man, we had none of that. This guy loved history, you could tell, and he managed to convey that in his teaching.

 

He's a big part of the reason why I have a BA in history.

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comment_3535564

I never had a good history teacher. It was always a coach who needed something to do on the side. Hated history in high school for that very reason. All he would do was give us worksheets or read to us from the textbook. There was also a lot of looking up definitions.

I had Honors History classes so I did not have that experience with History teachers in high school. However, I know exactly what kind of teachers you are talking about. Now, with the high-stakes testing affecting history and science, you see less coaches being hired to teach the core subjects.
comment_3535608

Yeah, even my AP US History teacher (we didn't have an Honors World History or anything else, just US History) was a coach. We had to write a lot of papers, but we were given no direction and the assignments were really vague. Find a historically significant book and do a book report on it. That leaves things pretty wide open, doesn't it? I would have preferred "find a Civil War book" or "find a WWII book" ... anything, really. I also don't think any of my history classes in school did enough to teach anything after WWII. By the time we made it that far, the year was over. I know absolutely nothing about the Korean War or about anything in the 50s really.

comment_3535646

I know absolutely nothing about the Korean War or about anything in the 50s really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s

 

I don't know what's missing or inaccurate in that, I forgot most of that part of the course. But, well, there you go. A link to the Korean War entry is in there too.

comment_3535682

My favorite was actually called an "internet" class, done before the internet was something everybody has access to. The school literally started it my senior year for the sole purpose of keeping everybody from going to the joint vocational school. We'd have assignments and were free to do whatever when we were done (provided we weren't reading/viewing obscene material), and with the class taking two periods, it was literally like having a study hall where you could actually have some fun.

comment_3535741

Crank your up nerd-proof goggles, but I think my favorite class would either have to be Physics or Band class. I liked doing music a lot, so Band was obviously an outlet, both concert and (yes) marching band. Physics was just cool because you could figure out some of the most inane things, like the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.

 

My favorite class was basic C++ (most comparable to CSC 115), because I did almost literally nothing in it besides surf the internet and watch these two megaposers sitting next to me (and, well, everyone else in the class) make asses of themselves on a daily basis. It also provides me with the wonderful memories of my teacher punching my monitor like a dumbass thinking it'd fix a problem, and all the token asian and token female comments.

I quote this only to mention that I didn't even have a C++ course in my high school. The programming classes were QBASIC and Visual Basic - what a waste.

comment_3535743

My favorite class was a World History class taught by a guy who worked as a shoe salesman during the summer and called himself the black Al Bundy. Every Friday we had "game day" where we'd have a gameshow style quiz game based on history. We'd get competitive and it'd get pretty nuts. It helped that the teacher could have been a QVC pitchman. When he got revved up, he made Don West seem lethargic.

comment_3536245

Newspaper. Had it my last three years and the laid back atmosphere, excellent teacher, things I learned, and comradire, made it easily the best class I ever took in school.

comment_3537512

I quote this only to mention that I didn't even have a C++ course in my high school. The programming classes were QBASIC and Visual Basic - what a waste.

Yeah, that's really looking ahead and covering all your grounds, teaching them kids crappy languages that only work on DOS and Windows ;) I think our high school had Pascal before C++, and then Java some time after I graduated.
comment_3545704

Mine was probably American History or Political Theory / American Government (Civics).

 

 

Both were because I love history anyway but the experience was made better by the fact that I had two really fun teachers.

 

The one for American History was a 65+ year old man who'd been teaching at our school since it opened in the 1960s. He was eccentric to say the least and also had some other quirks, like the fact that he had no sense of smell. (I can't recall if that was due to a car accident or a war wound, as he was in the Korean War and had also gotten in a bad accident at one point)

 

 

The no-smell thing was a long-known thing about him any each year, some class would find a way to have fun with it.

 

In my year, several students would smoke while he was watching the board and got away with it until one was seen exhailing after taking a drag. By the next morning, some of the students had gotten together and put up a "No Smoking" sign in the back of his room for shits and giggles.

 

 

 

As for the American Government teacher, he's a real piece of work.

 

He's one of the younger teachers at the school (very early 30s), is the brother of one of the middle school teachers, coaches several sports including swimming, is not afraid to get plastered in public, and probably the worst-kept secret in school was that he was gay.

 

All of that made for some interesting situations.

 

One of which involved an awkward situation in which a Saudi student made some comment about how he didn't think gays should be teaching, not realizing that Z was gay.

 

 

Another was when my sister and one of my good friends went to Bon Fete, a free concert / carnival downtown, and ran into Z and a female friend of his who were both plastered.

 

Z didn't recognize any of us, despite the fact that my sister had been in his class about 4 years before, I'd been in his class 2 years before, and my friend had been in his class the previous year.

 

We found out later that, for shits and giggles, he and his friend had both gotten into a porta-potty together and started making all kinds of noises to make the people around them think they were screwing in there.

 

 

He also knew a bit about some of the more obscure bits of history that he found fascinating and shared with us.

 

At least one of those things was the lesser-known badges that prisoners wore in Nazi Germany, like the Pink Triangle for gays and certain other shapes and colors for the Jehovah's Witnesses, gypsies, etc.

comment_3550105

Mine was probably Mathematics. I was good at it for one thing, lots of friends were in my classes, and the teacher was either a hockey coach (who, unlike the coaches Loss described, were actually smart, knew their stuff, and were entertaining when they taught) or some equally smart hot chick.

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