What was the most useless class that you took in high school?

[JerrySTL ★]

RG's "Just so you know, Latin edition" got me to thinking of how useless my years of Latin classes were in high school.

1. The nuns said that I needed Latin to go to college. Most likely a lie plus I didn't go to college just after high school. When I did, no Latin needed.

2. Nobody speaks Latin except for Roman Catholic priests, some lawyers, and a few other odd-balls.

3. After high school I moved to New Mexico. I should have studied Spanish instead!

You?

[maddmaxx ★]

Gym.  I was a 3 sport athlete.  Gym was BS.

[ChrisL]

1 minute ago, maddmaxx said:

Gym.  I was a 3 sport athlete.  Gym was BS.

Same.  I didn't play HS sports but was an amateur cyclist and super fit in HS but since I didn't play school sports had to take PE...

[Razors Edge ★]

2 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Gym.  I was a 3 sport athlete.  Gym was BS.

Dodge ball is NEVER BS!

Tom

[late]

20 minutes ago, JerrySTL said:

RG's "Just so you know, Latin edition" got me to thinking of how useless my years of Latin classes were in high school.

1. The nuns said that I needed Latin to go to college. Most likely a lie plus I didn't go to college just after high school. When I did, no Latin needed.

2. Nobody speaks Latin except for Roman Catholic priests, some lawyers, and a few other odd-balls.

3. After high school I moved to New Mexico. I should have studied Spanish instead!

You?

Latin has always been one of the things admissions people love to see.

It was a real plus when I was a kid, these days they'd prob faint.

 

[Indy]

7 minutes ago, maddmaxx said:

Gym.  I was a 3 sport athlete.  Gym was BS.

But I liked Gym and it was an easy A.

I'll have to go with Spanish.  Took it because I made the mistake of listening to a freaking guidance concealer who said by the time I graduate college's will require at least one year of a foreign language.  That was in the 90s and they still don't require it now.  Also I've learned doing lots of international business, everyone freaking speaks English that has any power to actually do anything for you.

[ChrisL]

6 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Dodge ball is NEVER BS!

Tom

In grade school we used to play a version of dodge ball on the volley ball courts (no nets) and we used volleyballs, not squishy soft balls like they use now.  kids would get bloody noses and all sorts of scabs & torn clothes from diving on asphalt.

Ahh the good ole days.

[Longjohn ★]

For me it was biology lab. I wanted to take art classes but they said my schedule was too full. I told them I wanted an art class, scratch whatever class interferes with that but they refused to do it. And that’s why I hate school. 

[bikeman564™]

Gym, I've always been active. And art, I'm not an artsy person.  What is stoopid to me is, requiring to take 2 credits of PE or health in college ?

[sheep_herder ★]

I think this very much depends on the ability of the instructor to teach the class and not so much the content.

[Chris...]

English. I already spoke English. ?

[donkpow]

I liked every single class I took in high school. The majority were useless. In fact, I was following a pre-college drop out course of study. So it was more like a prep school than anything. Except we didn't have much drugs and sex. Stuff like that.

[parodybot]

robotics

 

[Kzoo]

2 hours ago, maddmaxx said:

Gym.  I was a 3 sport athlete.  Gym was BS.

Athletes didn't have to take gym.  I spent that time in the library and got A's for those 3 years.  

Drivers Ed.  PA had a mandatory drivers ed. class.  There were 60+ kids in the class (half our junior class at a time) stuffed into a classroom designed for 40 max..  A friend (I'll call Larry) and I noticed the teacher didn't take attendance.  The short version of the story is Larry and I never went back and got straight Bs for the year.  I spent that hour in the library as well.

So Drivers Ed was really the most worthless class I never took.

[parodybot]

1 minute ago, Kzoo said:

Athletes didn't have to take gym.  I spent that time in the library and got A's for those 3 years.  

Drivers Ed.  PA had a mandatory drivers ed. class.  There were 60+ kids in the class (half our junior class at a time) stuffed into a classroom designed for 40 max..  A friend (I'll call Larry) and I noticed the teacher didn't take attendance.  The short version of the story is Larry and I never went back and got straight Bs for the year.  I spent that hour in the library as well.

So Drivers Ed was really the most worthless class I never took.

You got a B for doing nothing.  That is better than you do in here.

[Road Runner]

Study hall.  I spent most of the time trying to amuse a certain young lady.

[BuffJim]

Auto Tech.  I couldn't do the assignment so the teacher has me do some errand for him, and he spun balanced the tires for me. Just wasn't my thing.

[jsharr ★]

Ethics.

[Kzoo]

3 minutes ago, jsharr said:

Ethics.

Nominated

[TrentonMakes]

I was going to say English Lit 5 but maybe I can't count that since I dropped it after two weeks.  No way I needed that time suck for an elective class outside my college major.

I was one of those annoying people who liked high school.

[jsharr ★]

1 minute ago, Kzoo said:

Nominated

Does it really matter?  I will win anyway.

[Mr. Silly]

rittin' 

[Kzoo]

9 minutes ago, jsharr said:

Does it really matter?  I will win anyway.

Good point.  Maybe just polish up the trophy and hand it to yourself.

[jsharr ★]

3 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

Good point.  Maybe just polish up the trophy and hand it to yourself.

Sounds like a job for RG

[2Far ★]

3 hours ago, maddmaxx said:

Gym.  I was a 3 sport athlete.  Gym was BS.

Yeah, my senior year I had PE first period and during hockey season, when we practiced before school at the local college, I had to get dressed to survive the Rottenchester winter to get to school to go to PE.

[late]

21 minutes ago, jsharr said:

Ethics.

Ethics?

In high school??

 

[The_Karen_Cooper_Incident]

Sociology. 

The subject matter was fine and I really enjoyed the class in college, however the class in HS was taught by a self proclaimed Communist.  To say the lectures were a little biased would be an understatement.  Any discussion critical of the opinions of the teacher were shut down with a negative grade.

Couch

[jsharr ★]

4 minutes ago, late said:

Ethics?

In high school??

 

okay, so I lied

[jsharr ★]

1 minute ago, Couch_Incident said:

Sociology. 

The subject matter was fine and I really enjoyed the class in college, however the class in HS was taught by a self proclaimed Communist.  To say the lectures were a little biased would be an understatement.  Any discussion critical of the opinions of the teacher were shut down with a negative grade.

Couch

was any one shot or sent to the gulag?

[Kzoo]

Just now, jsharr said:

okay, so I lied

I change my nomination.

[jsharr ★]

Just now, Kzoo said:

I change my nomination.

Does it really matter?  I will just lie and say I won.

[The_Karen_Cooper_Incident]

Just now, jsharr said:

was any one shot or sent to the gulag?

I post here, don't I?

Couch

[jsharr ★]

Just now, Couch_Incident said:

I post here, don't I?

Couch

Ice see what you did there, comrade 

[Prophet Zacharia]

43 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

Good point.  Maybe just polish up the trophy and hand it to yourself.

 

39 minutes ago, jsharr said:

Sounds like a job for RG

That is a euphemism, right? NTTIAWWT.

[Prophet Zacharia]

Media. I did TV sports productions for my High School, so the class itself was literally a blow off. I’d watch movies or edit projects in the back room while the class was going on.

[Further]

High School was a waste for me. I was a troublemaker, I didn't want to be there, why they gave me a diploma I don't know. They should have booted me out at 10th grade. 

[Tizeye]

Memory Retention. It was so useless that I can't recall any of the classes today.

[late]

1 hour ago, jsharr said:

okay, so I lied

I took a few philosophy classes in college. I was even masochistic enough to study modern philosophy, but ethics?

A good professor will tie you up in knots, and then let you stew in your juices for a while. No, thanks.

Collegiate BDSM.

[late]

I had a great history teacher in high school. I learned a lot about how to think from him.

[KrAzY]

Study hall. 

There was no damn hall, and what the hell did I have to study for? There were no tests or teaching.

[shootingstar]

3 hours ago, Further said:

High School was a waste for me. I was a troublemaker, I didn't want to be there, why they gave me a diploma I don't know. They should have booted me out at 10th grade. 

You're lucky you got the diploma.  Seriously.

I avoided taking any math and science courses in final year of high school. I was stuffing in art and English literature courses....  (I have degree in English literature. My comments on shitty Powerpoint slides is partially derived from writing well in a succinct manner.  But here on forum, I'm verbose.    )

 

[Further]

2 minutes ago, shootingstar said:

You're lucky you got the diploma.  Seriously.

 

I know.  

[Ralphie ★]

French.  Total waste of time.

[Longjohn ★]

5 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

French.  Total waste of time.

I had two years of French, both years had a hot French teacher. The one was a big flirt, at least with me. I still would have rather had art.

[Ralphie ★]

Just now, Longjohn said:

I had two years of French, both years had a hot French teacher. The one was a big flirt, at least with me. I still would have rather had art.

Les epinards est tres sale. 

 

[Kzoo]

1 minute ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Les epinards est tres sale. 

 

Eh?

[shootingstar]

20 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

French.  Total waste of time.

I took French twice at university...because it was a requirement that I graduate with 1 mandatory foreign language course.  At the time, I was furious and exhausted.  But looking back, even remembering a little French now, helps getting around in France (I've been there 3 different trips and Quebec several times.   Believe me...it helps...compared to being in Japan.

[Page Turner]

...it's hard for me to believe most of you people went to high school.

[shootingstar]

20 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Les epinards est tres sale. 

 

Je pense vous avez fou.

[shootingstar]

21 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Les epinards est tres sale. 

 

Les epinards est bien pour le sante mais sans le sel.