<p>Business Foundations - I got to sit and listen to my teacher talk about the news for fifty minutes a day, and then get tested over material in a book I never even opened. I somehow managed to still get an A, but wasted 12 weeks of my life that I could have used to satisfy a gym credit. Now I’m going to be a senior still having to take gym, lol. </p>
<p>Tech Theater - We never did anything substantial in the class besides build props for the school plays. Then the teacher decided we should have a final so that there’s at least one grade in the class, and I got my only A- that semester (which affected my weighted GPA and class rank) </p>
<p>AP European History - The teacher sucked so much. The class was really boring, and not even close to being as interesting as AP World History. Plus I got a 3 on the exam, which sucks.</p>
<p>Pre-AP (Honors) Physics…I thought it was going to a challenge and I would learn a lot of new things. Turns out that the teacher is disorganized and can barely teach. We only got to Chapter 8 in the textbook and I can’t really say I have learned much this year. Was also really boring, never did anything besides what was in the book. Really regret signing up for it.</p>
<p>How can you guys be saying it isn’t fair to grade you in gym on your ability?!? That’s exactly what they do in every other class, so why not in one that involved physical activity? We do an external PE exam, with 25% of the grade on ability, 25% on technique, 10% on writing about the sports we chose, and 40% on theory.
Just because you guys possess no athletic ability doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be graded on this.
Obviously it’s a little different with someone who’s had foot surgery</p>
<p>@UKGirl23 - The thing is, with every other class, even if you are garbage at said subject, you can study and work at it and see the improvement in a timely manner. With sports and athletic ability, it’s not so simple. Over my semester long gym class, I only dropped my mile time by about one minute. The improvement isn’t so quick, and not everyone comes in on a level playing field. It’s not really fair.</p>
<p>I think that’s easy to say when you are great at academics, but people come in on vastly different levels and are able to learn at different rates.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t know how bad you are at running, but dropping your time by a minute in a 5ish minute race seems like quite a lot to me.</p>
<p>But, akacesfan, it can also be said that someone going into calculus has been prepared with precalc and algebra and they have tried in those classes to prepare for calc. Just like that, physical activity can almost be expected of students today to maintain a healthy lifestyle and therefore get a good grade. So maybe go for a run? Play some bball with friends?</p>
<p>Every non-major class (so every elective) besides JROTC and Foods I that I had to take the graduate.</p>
<p>Ceramics made me feel like a useless human being and Piano just made me feel uncreative. When we got our transcripts halfway through the year, my history teacher saw mine, burst out laughing, and asked, “How on earth did you manage a 77 in Ceramics I?” The teacher didn’t like me and always criticized me for working slowly and being behind everyone, when I had switched in three weeks after the class started…and had managed to catch up with the majority of the class. gg. My Piano teacher is a nice guy but he’s one of those “WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY CLASS?” teachers. I had to run a form down to Guidance and it would’ve literally taken me a minute (because Guidance is just down the hall), but he gave me a 5 minute long diatribe/spiel about how everyone uses his class to do things like make up tests. And I never, ever missed his class. And no, I cannot write a ‘good’ piano composition, considering I have never played an instrument before.</p>
<p>This class was GPA killer for me, I finished with a C. The teacher was bad, but I didn’t study for any of the test. I have no clue why I didn’t study for the class, I gave up earlier in the year. My first C :(</p>
<p>Woah, these stories are crazy! I only regret taking pre alg b, as I literallY learned nothing new in that class. Another girl and i were always trying to get moved up to a higher class, but the teacher was so green she had no cluenwhat to do, so she was like, " i could give you some extra probLems…" and i was like lol no ( ihad a great teacher in pre alg a, and I’m pretty sure he taught us everything:P)</p>
<p>Orchestra, I didn’t really seriously practice my violin so I got a B and it totally ruined my GPA and I took it for two years. I used to get As but then a new teacher came it and the way he tests us is so different I just couldn’t adapt to it.</p>
<p>Latin 1.
I had already taken three years of Spanish (two in middle school and honors my Freshman year) and I could have taken something more challenging instead. However, my teacher is one of the best at my school and actually received an award for being one of the top teachers in the state.</p>
<p>Social studies in freshman year. I did not learn anything at all. We would start off each unit with a study guide for a test. The teacher would tell us the questions that would be on the test, and also the answers to those questions. Then we would take the test the next day. Sometimes he would throw candy at us though.</p>
<p>Freshmen: Interior Design, Integrated Science AND freakin Algebra 0.5A… -___-</p>
<p>Those don’t even count as high school credit -_- So it was literally a waste of my year. I didn’t know back then, I was a freshmen lol, and my counselor forced me too. </p>
<p>Junior: Ceramics (I was forced ; ~ ; ) US history (I SHOULD’VE TAKEN APUSH ALSKDJFALDS) Spanish 3 ( My teacher just made us watch movies the WHOLE time…)</p>
<p>@OP… Are you serious your teacher said that? *** hahah, gawd…</p>
<p>Journalism and Photography/Newspaper Design, this past (sophomore) year. I learned nothing but the final was really difficult, and if I get a B in this class just because of that stupid exam, I’m going to be so mad. Also, I regret it because I took it instead of my required technology credit which I am now going to have to take later with all the underclassmen.</p>
<p>There should be a thread like this for every school, so upperclassmen can warn the younger students on what not to take.</p>