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[conlt]

I was terrified of the balance beam too. I did not like Gym Class at all. 

[spiderw]

Geometry and Chemistry were a waste of time for me.  It  has never had a negative affect  not putting my all into these subjects either.  

[bikerbabe]

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@just bee wrote:

Transformational Syntax.

On the first day of class, our English professor told us that, if we didn't approach the course as if it were a math class, we would have difficulty with it.

From that moment on, the class was my enemy.

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Sounds like my kind of class!🤣

Art in jr high was totally wasted on me. Thankfully, I took no home economics because I would have been miserable. 

[Enufstuff]

@smoochy  @conlt  @Meowingkitty

  Same here. Phys.Ed. was a complete waste of time for me. I hated it. I have never been athletic. I never had any upper body strength and I was always the smallest one, all through school. I was always last, when they chose teams for basketball. In high school, I was only 4'11".

   Why on God's green earth would anyone ever think of or want to climb a rope? I was never able to do that. In junior high, a couple of times they let us bring in our 45's and we could dance in Gym class. That was fun.

   The only physical activities I liked were dancing, roller skating, ice skating and hiking. I always exercised when I was young and did yoga until my arthritis kept me from doing a lot of the floor poses.

  Thank goodness, I went to a small private girls' high school and the best part was, they had no gym. No more Phys Ed.

   The subjects that I enjoyed were Latin, French, Art, Geometry and Biology, especially when we worked with microscopes.

   My degree is in Food Science and technology, so I did get to work in a lab in microbiology and using chemistry and algebra

in analytical work. Knowing Latin is useful in any of the sciences and in communications.

[Meowingkitty]

I had a couple. PE for starters. I'm a klutz (it's all I can do to walk around some days) and I was good at nothing. Fortunately I had a very good friend who had arthritis pretty bad and she let us walk around the field instead of doing PE stuff.

Algebra. Fortunately I only needed basic math to graduate. I tried Algebra 3 times in college and failed 3 times. Still got my degree somehow because Algebra wasn't required and I didn't go to a traditional 4 year school. I went to a college that took every credit and it didn't really matter what they were in.  Again could get away with basic math. 

Literature. Hated to read books then and I still hate to read today. Now maybe give me a juicy tell all and that would be different but to read things like Shakespeare I found to be very boring. 

[RetRN]

Phy. Ed. was a total waste of time. The teacher was a nut who eventually committed suicide.

[We rescue cats]

Physics and probably Geometry. I find the roots of words interesting so I semi-enjoy Latin. (And I'm Catholic so had to learn a bit of it before the Mass was said in English!)

[Desert Lily]

I skipped grades in school which made me younger & smaller than my classmates, so I hated PE.

My BFF in Jr. High & H. S. hated PE, too. When we had to play softball, she & I always volunteered for the positions no else wanted - in left field. Then, we'd sneak across the street & hide behind the garage of the house there until we heard the whistle that it was time to go in.

In H.S., we had to take 2 different swimming classes. The house I grew up in had an indoor pool, so I was a fairly good swimmer - who still hated PE. I signed up for Beginners Swimming & then Advanced Beginners Swimming. We blew bubbles in the water, held onto the edge & kicked our feet, & floated on our backs.

My BFF didn't know what the word "Endurance" meant back then; she ended up having to swim lap after lap & begged, "Help me!" each time she swam past me.

Eventually, we decided that in our required black 1-piece swimsuit & white swim cap, no one could tell us apart unless they were in our face in the water. So, she quit the laps & played in the water with the Beginners instead.

When we had the Presidential tests, my BFF always brought her own red pen and we "fixed" our scores. When the gym teacher walked by while doing sit-ups, we'd be counting "14, 15, 41, 42."

One Prez test included holding ourselves up on the high parallel bars. After about 10-15 seconds, my little arms just gave way & I fell chin down to the floor with a bang. The 2-level gym fell silent.

I took ballet & pointe outside of school, but what did I learn in PE? How unfair it was & how to cheat at it. LOL

[shoekitty]

Gym. lol seems I always had gym first thing and swimming. It was the 60's... we couldn't even fit hair in that darn cap. 

[Carmie]

I had such an awesome education from 1 to 8th grade that I could have skipped high school altogether, IMO.

I took secretarial/business in the morning and college prep classes in the afternoon.  I had no free time or study periods.

All my classes made me well rounded and I learned something, but I have always been a big reader and could learn just about everything on my own.

When I was in 3rd grade, I was moved to the 8th grade reading class....I remained there until I was in 9th grade.

Home Ec was probably the worse class.  I could cook 100% better than my teacher.  She was pretty bad.  She finally spent a whole semester teaching us how to choose China patterns and water and wine glasses to match, how to set a table, etc.

I used to argue with her in cooking class.  I told her she was teaching us to cook slop.  She told me I'd never find a husband.  Ha, she was single.

She had us cook potatoes cubes in water with celery and onions and salt and pepper...she called that potato soup.  I threw mine down the garbage disposal.  It was awful.

She could sew though and I did learn a lot of sewing from her.

I excelled in PE.  I was on the gymnastic team.  I was young and limber and petite.  I wish I could do half of that today.  I can still bend over and palm the floor and not just touch my toes.  But, it takes me a few minutes to get up if I sit on the floor.