Re: High School classes

Posted by oldtanker on September 25, 2017 at 10:56:58 from (66.228.255.59):

In Reply to: High School classes posted by 37Chief on September 23, 2017 at 16:03:11:

High school for me was interesting to say the least. I started HS in NJ. They graduated about 1000 kids a year and that was in 1969. Because my mom forced the issue I took Algebra I&II my first 2 years along with biology I&II. @ years of Spanish too. And yea, wood and metal shop too. Then for my junior year I attended a small rural school here in MN. Moms plan was that I would be taking geometry in my 3rd year. Wasn't offered. She planned on a couple of more years of Spanish or Latin I&II. No language classes that I hadn't already had. I had to have math so it was book keeping, they wouldn't let me sign up for general math because I'd already done algebra. Had to have a science too but wasn't allowed to take general classes because I'd had biology. Took botany because it was the only alternative they had. As a senior I was handed the same history book I'd had in 8th grade in NJ! SO my first 2 years of high school I busted my hump. My last 2 were so easy it was ridiculous! Then I dashed my mom's desires and plans for a career as a doctor and joined the Army. My days at school were pleasant because I didn't have to put up with mom telling me I had to be a doctor over and over and over again. It was bad enough that mom planned on signing me up to take EXTRA classes at summer school in both of my first 2 years. Dad saved me on that. Now don't get me wrong. I loved my mom. I miss her now though she's long gone. But she was obsessed with the idea that I was going to be a doctor.

Now my last 2 years of high school were a breeze. I didn't really need to study. The schools here just didn't have the money to offer what I'd already had. I do go to bed every night thinking, gee, another day and I didn't use any algebra.

Life experience has made me understand that a lot of what was taught was either done wrong or didn't key where it needed to. A*X/Z+D=10? OK, they were trying to make us memorize a formula. But in real life A,X,Z and D would be knowns. And it would have a purpose. I didn't learn that until I was learning route reccon in the Army and had to figure out if a bridge would take the weight of a tank. I recognized the formula from HS algebra. Was so much easier when you had all the numbers! I knew then that they could be making math so much easier for kids in school. I hated history in school. After I was out and started reading on my own I came to love it. Biggest problem in school? Dates! The date something happened is not as important as the event. And as long as the sequence of events are in order that's what the student needs to learn. Does it matter when the Declaration of Independence was signed or was the singing of it more important?

Rick

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