What was your least favorite class in school?

[MiniMandaRuth]

Poll question: What was your least favorite class in school?

Well... mine is... P.E closely followed by math. We have the teacher from hell in fitness. Argh. I had him last years... All I wanted was to NOT be in his class.

Argh. Double argh.

Holy friggin' schopork.

So, what was YOUR least favorite? Specify

[Z_I_Peevey]

1. Speech.

Sheer torture.

[Maine Mary]

2. Math 1rst, but I also hated Government

Who'd of thought I'd end up being a State Rep? :shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

21. LOL!

Love the irony!

[Parrcrow]

3. Grade 10 Biology

The teacher was a prick.


If he's still alive, I imagine he's still a prick.

[Floogeldy]

4. What school?

High school?

[Fox Mulder]

5. Math...

by far.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. MATH! It was always my nemesis........

Followed by PE......:scared:


Otherwise, I enjoyed school.....oh well....:shrug:

[BulletproofLandshark]

7. Language Arts

I loved the literature part of it but hated the grammar part of it. I don't need no grammar trainin' no how!

[deadparrot]

8. Science. Math was awful, too, but I could do it pretty well. nt

[RoyGBiv]

9. P.E., but all measures ...

I played baseball, was a good pitcher, but the curve ball my coach taught me screwed up my elbow, after which I became not so good. He told me it was all in my head, to stop being such "a girl" about it. I couldn't really play baseball anymore -- was no good to the coach anyway -- but still had to take a PE course, during which I ended up running a lot for no particular reason and being ridiculed on a daily basis. I hated that man. Still do.

Luckily, my mother was, in the words of that coach, a "crazy bitch," and with the help of a few friends somehow managed to get the school system to change its policy regarding physical education. After this little battle, people with chronic asthma, in wheel chairs, or dealing with some other physical ailment that made the generic "hang out in the open and listen to some bastard tell you how worthless you are as a human being" their only option for the PE requirement no longer had to deal with that ass.

[WCGreen]

10. PE.....

Now this was back in the 70's mind you....

I had my mother write a letter to the gym teacher that I was to be excused from the wresting unit because I thought it was homosexual i nature...

You should have seen the look on his face....

Now, before you all get all over me, this same teacher use to take the weakest kid in the class and pit him up against the strongest....

That kind of crap...

A real sadistic Ass Hole....

I wanted no part of that action what so ever....

Sure enough, about three years later they stopped doing the wrestling unit.....

[DS1]

11. English. Who needs it? I'm never going to England.

:-)

[trackfan]

12. P.E. - what a fucking waste of everyone's time....

[scarlet_owl]

13. Math and P.E..

I sucked at both.

[alarcojon]

14. Ahhh, let the math bashing begin

I hope we're teaching it better now than we were in the past.

My own anecdotal results: when I meet someone and they ask me what I do and I reply "teach math," at least 80% of the time I get "oh, that was my worst subject."

Yawn.

[eyepaddle]

67. Hey, I only say Math because I cared enough to worry about it.

I slugged it out through Calc I, but no question about it, it caused me more worry than any other subject.

If I could change one thing about myself academically I would like to be more natural at learning math.

[alarcojon]

69. Most people struggle with math

but hating it with the passion so many people do is, to me, anti-intellectual, pure and simple. It is very unfortunate that so many people have been soured on this subject, often by a crappy teacher

Mathematics is perhaps THE most useful subject around. It is considered the queen of the sciences AND the queen of the humanities.

Some fractal art for your consideration. The term "fractal" refers to fractional dimension - a space between two and three dimensions.

[auntAgonist]

15. P.E. I was the

chubby girl in class and I had no coordination. Uneven parallel bars made me dizzy, I hated climbing and I hated the stupid gym uniforms (bloomers) we had to wear.

We had the stereotypicl Miss Ballbreaker as our teacher too!!!!


:scared:

[LaraMN]

16. Yup! Running the mile was a nightmare since I was a smoker, already.

I was happier on the last day of p.e. (in tenth grade) than I was on the last day of high school.

[SeattleGirl]

24. OMG!

You had the bloomers too??? Yikes, I hated those things!

[philosophie_en_rose]

26. P.E. = Future Abu Ghraib Prisonguards of America...

I was never the best in gym. I was chubby and, yes, sort of lazy and reluctant to participate. I just don't feel a thrill at the thought of people throwing balls at me and such.

It's partially my upbringing, but it my aversion to P.E. is a direct result of freaking mean kids that snapped towels and called others names.

And is there a rule that gym teachers need to be sadistic. It's one thing to be inspiring or to be tough or to push for progress. It's another to shame, blame, and ridicule.

[RevCheesehead]

70. Going jogging outdoors in allergy season,

trying to keep your bra up (before sports bras were invented)... the list goes agonizingly on and on...

and yes, I was usually the last person picked for teams. Cruel bastards.

[chknltl]

17. No math wizard here!

I had the dubious distinction of flunking out of the only math requirement offered up for Anthropology majors at my university, not once but twice! (It was "Quantitative Statistics). I was also the first ever to flunk that course and the second ever to flunk that course a year later... with much help I made it through with a B in my third year. The Doctor and I are both traumatized for life over this.
ps: just did the spell check and found out that I wrote the word quantitative right...whooo hooo!

[shanti]

18. any math, arggggh! hated it!

my favorites were any english classes, oh, and p.e.

[enigmatic]

19. Math

Not even close..

[SeattleGirl]

20. Math

Because it was a struggle for me, still is. But I adored all my math teachers! My junior high teacher used to give us quizzes on Friday's. We would take turns bringing in cheeze and crackers and other munchies, and when we finished the tests, which were pretty short, we would listen to Simon and Garfunkle music. The dear man, my math teacher, passed away some years ago, and I still miss him!

My guidance counselor in high school supported my petition to re-take algebra, because I felt I did not understand it well enough to go on to higher math. My math teacher was great, and really took time to help me. (Note, my junior high teacher was also a great TEACHER -- it was the student, not the teacher, who had the problem.)

My stats teacher in college was so totally cool -- Hey Dr. C! -- that I took Stats II when it wasn't required! And, he had ME teach Stats I when he went out of town for a week. I was shocked when he asked me to take his place. I said, hey, don't you remember? I'm the one who had her own personal kleenix box in your office? He said, yeah, and that's exactly why I want you to teach while I'm gone. Because you understand the struggle people have with math and stats. And besides, you learn best when you teach. Well, that was one of the coolest weeks in my life, and Dr. C was right -- I DID do well, and got to see lots of light bulbs going off over people's heads as I taught the theory of regression.

[mvd]

22. P.E.

I never was the athletic type.

[6000eliot]

23. Also, Math

Rows of numbers make me dizzy and give me a headache. I wasn't crazy about PE either, not because I didn't like sports, but because I didn't like the way it was taught and I didn't like jocks.

[Omphaloskepsis]

25. I hated P.E..

I rock Math.. Everything else was easy.

[njdemocrat106]

27. Chemistry

There were 2 chemistry teachers in my high school, and I got the one everybody dreaded (she by far gave the most homework out of any teacher I had in high school). Also, I pretty much got stuck with all the tough teachers during my time in high school. For example, there were 5 first period World History classes in my freshman year, and I got with the workoholic who just loved putting us in groups for every little thing and made do frequent group projects (I absolutely hated working in groups or anybody else). And my world history teacher regularly blurred the lines between church and state with some readings from "Chicken Soup from the Soul" and other moral lessons with explicitly religious implications (keep in mind she would sometimes drop everything and start in with the morality stuff). She left after my sophomore year, and supposedly she went to become a nun. Since I shared my time in high school with brother (yes, we're indeed twins, even though if we're together, we never introduce ourselves as such, waiting for whomever to figure it out themselves :) ), I was shocked about how easier his classes and teachers sounded. Of course, he got better grades because he had the easier teachers, muchso that he got to wear a gold "honors sash" during the graduation ceremony and I didn't, leading many fellow classmates asking if he was smarter than me. Well, I'm definitely a better liberal than him ;) (he's not a Bush fan, but he's said numerous times that he hopes Giuliani runs for president in '08).

Whew, thanks for letting me vent, people!

[noonwitch]

28. Math-they did a poor job teaching it in the 70s

Luckily, I'm a girl and don't really need it, or so I was told by one the male teachers I had in 6th grade.

Seriously, it was that whole "new math" thing coupled with all that "work at your own pace" crap that ruined math for me. That may have worked well with kids who had a natural ability for math, but not for kids like me who struggled with it. I had a really good teacher in 7th grade, who taught traditional methods, but it's really hard for one teacher to make up for the previous 6 years.

Thank God for calculators!

[MissHoneychurch]

29. Physics

we had the chance after the 11th grade to drop that subject - the whole class did :)

[kick-ass-bob]

30. In high school: English.

In college: well, English.
:P

[huskerlaw]

31. Math.

Geometry, to be specific. Never did understand what the point was or when I'd ever use the information I was supposed to be gaining.

In subsequent academic endeavors, I would say partnership taxation and legal process. I still have nightmares.

[samplegirl]

32. Grade 11

You and the law which was a part of govt. class

[ghostsofgiants]

33. P.E. and Math

P.E. because I fucking hate physical activity.

Math because I just had really shitty teachers. (And I found it boring as hell.)

[mainegreen]

34. Band. That bass drum was HEAVY!

Murder on your back to march around for an hour with a drum half my wieght hanging off my sholders, going "BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM" all that time.

[Ikonoklast]

35. Latin

Pointless. I took two years as required and promptly forgot as much as I could. Just memorization with absolutely no practical application in the real world. Took time away from more useful instruction.

[trof]

36. Math, specifically trigonometry.

I was good at algebra and geometry, but I just didn't "get" trig.
I dunno, my brain could never get around it.
I never understood how it worked or what it was good for.

[El Fuego]

37. P.E.!

I actually liked the rest of my classes.

[Left_Winger]

38. Math: It was always alien jibberish to me

P.E. runs a close second

[kwassa]

39. Statistics (lies, damn lies, and .....)

Of course, this was graduate school. Still hated it.

[xmas74]

40. Art.

I can't draw anything beyond a stick figure. I was good in everything else.

[Ron Mexico]

41. Social Studies

I had the same teacher for all three years of high school (it wasn't offered senior year, but mandatory from grades 9-11) who was a Vietnam Vet and skilled brainwasher. He had half the school convinced that using atomic weapons on the "gooks" was the only way to go. I just shut my mouth, passed the tests and brain-dumped everything he "taught" me.

[flamingyouth]

42. Tie between math & PE

[edbermac]

43. Biology, and my father was a doctor and my mother a nurse...

Go figure...

[CornField]

44. I am a geek. I liked them all.

I'm all about "knowledge for knowledge's sake"

[annonymous]

45. Math was always my worst subject.

I also hated PE because the two years in high school I was required to take it, I was lousy at any team sports except cross country. I also had to wear a gym suit which I hated because it was so ugly.

Math and I don't get along. I had to repeat Algebra and Geometry.

[lpbk2713]

46. Other .....

I always found that it was the teacher who usually made most of the difference in whether I enjoyed a class or not. But all things being equal, I didn't care for math classes much.

[Arugula Latte]

47. God I hated Math.

I'll never forgot the first time I didn't have to take a math class -- 2nd trimester of college. I felt so Freeeeee.

[Initech]

48. MATH, especially since my Algebra II teacher was a total psycho

I mean, seriously, my Alg. II teacher was a total anal retentive lunatic. To this day, I refer to him as the guerilla terrorist of math teachers.

He had all these weird things to put on the heading and if it wasnt 100% correct, you failed the assignment. He once gave me a 0 on a 50 point assignment because I put the date as 4/23/97 instead of 4-23-97. I nearly had to repeat the class because of that bullshit.

[JVS]

Math ruled!

[Taverner]

49. Witchcraft

;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4059742

[IcyPeas]

50. American History

[no name no slogan]

51. HATED P.E.

I was small for my age and young for my grade (late August birthday); consequently I was always behind everybody else in physical stature. I absolutely loathed PhysEd and all the bullshit that went with it.

[bigwillq]

52. Math (nt)

[youthere]

53. History..hands down.

I swear I had the world's WORST history teachers. Now I love it.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

54. Band, no contest

Mommie Dearest wanted me to start playing an instrument in elem school. Went on through JHS and then into HS. I Hated Every Minute, but she had made this "investment" and wouldn't let me quit. In HS it was the only way I could get out of the house, with ball games and band trips. But senior year I quit. I was making C's in band and it was keeping me off the honor roll. Made almost all A's senior year. There were other classes that I struggled with, like geometry and chemistry, but band was honestly the only one I hated.

[Nikia]

55. Accounting

Why did I ever take that class? The teacher was one of the hardest teacher's at the school. I swear that you could have more points deducted than you could get on some of the assignments. She assigned a lot of homework too.
The only good thing about taking that class is that it made me confident that I did not want to be an accountant.

[u4ic]

56. Gym - hands down

the vast majority of the classes involved track & field or gymnastics...both at which I was terrible at.

I thought I was unathletic because of gym class...then I'd go home and play baseball, tennis, badminton, street hockey, cycle, ride horses, skip rope, etc.

It was only years later I realized I wasn't athletic on THEIR terms, but, in actual fact, I was.

In high school, gym and physics were the classes I detested the most.

[Darth_Kitten]

57. physics........

only course I could never "get". :(

[Left Is Write]

58. P.E., I suppose.

(We called it Phy.Ed. though).

Interestingly enough, I am now something of a fitness buff.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

59. second language (bengali) and third language (hindi)

[Pithlet]

60. I hated gym

I played a lot of sports and ran track, so I think it was just because the teachers were usually so mean and that must have been a requirement at the schools I went to.

[dr.zoidberg]

61. Pick a math, any math.

[DanCa]

62. Math and Anatomy and Physiology I hated punnet square

would have gotten in a in botany but i couldn't do the mutation tables and wound up with a d. My next choice would be Biology lab with the disection requirement. They wanted me to put down a cat. When I said I wouldn't I got a D for the lab. Still averaged a c for the course.

[fortyfeetunder]

63. PE with a negative passion

I hated the shit wearing the garish gym wear, the taunts from the girls, I won't even go into detail. And if you had no ounce of athleticism, screw getting a grade better than C.

The day I watched in horror as my classmate slipped from the parallel bars and almost crunched her head was the final straw. We ran away from the class the next session and the PE teacher caught us. But once we did our time in high school, we were finished. We were both in marching band so we were getting our exercise marching anyway.

Given a choice between math and PE, I'd gladly take math!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

64. Ouchebra. It begins and ends with ouchebra.

[AuntieM1957]

65. Dodgeball is an evil game nt

[Flying Dream Blues]

66. Physical Science. BORING!!!

[Rabrrrrrr]

68. The one I graduated with. My class was FILLED with cliquish fucks

and not just cliquish, but also ignorant and worthless. My class was one of the most obnoxious, stupid, shitheaded classes of the decade. God, how I hated my class. The classes before me (going ahead a good 6 years or so, which years my older sister knew), and the ones below me, were pretty good.

Mine sucked. Totally fucking sucked.

Self-absorbed, jock-loving, learning-hating imbecilic trash.

[graywarrior]

71. Home Ec. Cripes I hated that class.