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Post by Ragtop on Mar 13, 2024 5:34:14 GMT -5
I was a pretty good student, got As in the classes I liked and Bs in those I didn't. Played football, basketball, and track until my senior year when I just didn't care anymore, and was tired of running all the time. Ended up getting kicked out in March of my senior year, and I deserved it (long story). They mailed me my diploma, which was fine with me. I had a fair number of good friends, and several of us keep in touch to this day.
I went to most of the reunions, and they got better as the years went by. When I was still living near the ol' home town, I would host an open house the night before the reunion, and it was usually more fun than the actual reunion. But we've moved to another state since, and don't do that anymore.
We had our 50th last summer, and I went back for it and had a good time. But I think I'm done, have no plans to attend the next one.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 13, 2024 8:53:27 GMT -5
My wife and I both graduated from the same high school in 77. Neither one of us was remotely interested in class reunions, but a classmate/bandmate/friend was also our class president. Coerced with limos and guarantees of a great time we went to our 5th, 10th, 20th, and 30th. Had fun until the 30th which turned into a surreal assembly of low lifes and drunks. One classmate kept hitting on my bud's wife and they shortly afterward fled in their waiting limo. That guy shortly afterward drank himself to death. We moved away and didn't bite at any further class reunion invites. There are and have always been just a small group of people from my high school that I care to see and have other opportunities to connect.
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Post by gbfun on Mar 15, 2024 11:43:48 GMT -5
Thanks for the "F" stories ! I almost fell out of my chair at one point. I vividly remember a chronically drunk economics teacher(did he foresee 2008 to present ?) and yes indeed, a new kick ass tax accounting teacher(the heaviest course I ever took, even more than Contract or Constitutional law). Before the big tax accounting midterm, I saw a lot of worried looks(including Me because this covered both tax law AND accounting all at once) and somebody asked him if he graded on a curve. He said no and went on to predict that it would be a fair test and it should result in a couple of A's and a half dozen B's and the rest would be C's. Well, I studied IRS code to the max and I'd already had accounting courses and the test called on everything I had. It was far too dense to do a good job on all the answers so time ran out before I could fully complete it. I got my test back with a D grade. I knew a lot of stuff and the teacher was pretty good, so I was shocked. I'd never gotten a D in my life, and as I looked around the room, everyone was in shock when they got their tests back. Turns out...almost everyone got a D or worse ! My class friend got an F ! Once the teacher got back to the front of the class again, with a slight smile, he announced that he had changed his mind and that he was now considering grading on a curve because the highest grade on the test was a C+ and there weren't many C grades either. Ha. I can't remember what my adjusted grade was but I suspect it was a C. Later tests went far better for me, thank goodness, but there were no A's involved ! Probably the most important class I ever took though. I even learned a lot from the drunk economics teacher! He'd sometimes goof up something and me and the other students took perverse, wicked delight in correcting him almost every day. This forced us to study more because he was a bit unreliable to say the least. And it was actually pretty funny and made the class a lot more fun. Sure don't see that in college every day ! But maybe drunk teachers could solve our distracted student issues of today ? Hmm. Worked for me ! He actually knew his stuff, so that was cool. He was clearly drunk most of the time though. I don't think the multiple choice student review we had to fill out had ANY references to teaching drunk, so the guy probably taught for many semesters after I graduated. I got an A and wanted to keep it that way, and had fun, so I wasn't saying nuttin. Good times !
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Post by jrc on Mar 18, 2024 19:28:14 GMT -5
Disappointed to learn that this was not a Stanley Clarke thread.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Mar 19, 2024 9:09:41 GMT -5
Thanks for the "F" stories ! I almost fell out of my chair at one point. I vividly remember a chronically drunk economics teacher(did he foresee 2008 to present ?) and yes indeed, a new kick ass tax accounting teacher(the heaviest course I ever took, even more than Contract or Constitutional law). Before the big tax accounting midterm, I saw a lot of worried looks(including Me because this covered both tax law AND accounting all at once) and somebody asked him if he graded on a curve. He said no and went on to predict that it would be a fair test and it should result in a couple of A's and a half dozen B's and the rest would be C's. Well, I studied IRS code to the max and I'd already had accounting courses and the test called on everything I had. It was far too dense to do a good job on all the answers so time ran out before I could fully complete it. I got my test back with a D grade. I knew a lot of stuff and the teacher was pretty good, so I was shocked. I'd never gotten a D in my life, and as I looked around the room, everyone was in shock when they got their tests back. Turns out...almost everyone got a D or worse ! My class friend got an F ! Once the teacher got back to the front of the class again, with a slight smile, he announced that he had changed his mind and that he was now considering grading on a curve because the highest grade on the test was a C+ and there weren't many C grades either. Ha. I can't remember what my adjusted grade was but I suspect it was a C. Later tests went far better for me, thank goodness, but there were no A's involved ! Probably the most important class I ever took though. I even learned a lot from the drunk economics teacher! He'd sometimes goof up something and me and the other students took perverse, wicked delight in correcting him almost every day. This forced us to study more because he was a bit unreliable to say the least. And it was actually pretty funny and made the class a lot more fun. Sure don't see that in college every day ! But maybe drunk teachers could solve our distracted student issues of today ? Hmm. Worked for me ! He actually knew his stuff, so that was cool. He was clearly drunk most of the time though. I don't think the multiple choice student review we had to fill out had ANY references to teaching drunk, so the guy probably taught for many semesters after I graduated. I got an A and wanted to keep it that way, and had fun, so I wasn't saying nuttin. Good times ! The first test in my high school biology class was like that. New to teaching high school, the teacher wrote a brutally hard test. I got mine back and I'd gotten 26%. I was freaking out as my normal MO was to blow off the homework but get A's on the tests. My 26% was the highest grade in the class!!
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Post by LeftyMeister on Mar 19, 2024 11:08:01 GMT -5
I still have 3 good friends from high school and we’ve stayed in touch throughout the years. They are as much my brothers as my biological brothers.
I played football, wrestled, and played tennis in high school but I wasn’t one of the jocks. I made the honor roll my jr year but missed a heap load of days my senior year from skipping out. I still had a C+ average.
I went to one reunion a decade ago and that was enough. Been there, done that.
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Post by Mike the marksman on Mar 19, 2024 11:54:19 GMT -5
I dropped out after my junior year- I wouldn't have had enough credits to graduate for two more years. I just didn't do anything, really. I had really bad social anxiety and was (and still am) seriously introverted. I didn't do assignments, I didn't do homework, I didn't even dress out for PE. I went there, sat in the back of the room doing as little as possible, then went home. I was miserable there.
I got my GED during the summer and then joined the Army not long after.
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Post by Laker on Mar 19, 2024 12:33:45 GMT -5
Good educators should take pride in teaching a pupil to become as proficient as themselves. I totally agree with you. In college I had a class called “persuasive writing” where the professor, a small, corduroy-clad, long-haired little woman would tell her class that she would teach them the correct way/methods to be successful. She made the class interesting and informative to those who listened and absorbed. After my graduation I told her she was the best teacher I had experienced in my time at the college.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 19, 2024 12:50:39 GMT -5
I had a third grade math teacher, Mr.Lubinski, who's method for teaching involved 4 walls of chalkboards and problems. He patrolled the class with a paddle and whacked anyone deemed slow to solve the problem. I honestly think that experience made be deficient in math and created an analysis paralysis reflex.
The best teachers I ever had wouldn't loom, either physically or intellectually. They made me like the subject, not from some extraneous effort that impeded the class, but simply by being good people with a genuine interest in developing young minds.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Mar 19, 2024 13:02:26 GMT -5
We had a 6th grade teacher that was amazing. He created a game called "The buzz game" which was basically 4 doorbell buttons wired to a board with 4 lights and a buzzer. We'd line up the desks into 4 columns, each was a team. You'd take turns with a person from each team going to the front of the class. He'd hold up a flash card with a question and whomever buzzed in first got to answer. A correct answer yielded points for your team....more points for a more difficult question.
There were some that were very high point, but they were things that we hadn't learned yet. I remember going to the library to read and learn about the Pythagorean theorem because it was worth 25 points!! His name was Mr. Lammers and he was a hero in my opinion. The really crazy part....he was a very strict teacher, yet everyone loved him. He had that ability to command respect while holding us to the highest of standards of behavior and still remain likeable. We had three classrooms in every grade and everyone wanted him for 6th grade.
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