The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[StarWarsGirl]

We also have 7 classes a day and lunch. My Freshman year was English Grammar, English Literature, Algebra 2, Physical Science, US Government, German 1, P.E./ Choir(alternative days). Sophomore year: English Grammar, English Literature, Geometry, Biology, World History, German 2, P.E/ Choir. This upcoming Junior Year: English Grammar, English Literature, Trigonometry, Chemistry, US History, Health, Drawing/ Choir.

Yeah, I think they also did it the way they did it because in junior year they switch over the upper level English kids to AP English. So they do teach you grammar there because there is some of it on the AP Comp exam. They don't in senior year for the AP literature exam. I also continued with the Spanish so I could take the AP exam; I was in Spanish 4 when I was a sophomore and was like, eh, why stop now. And then when I was in school, there weren't alternating days. Now they have A/B days and longer classes, like 90 minutes each; IDK if they take 7 classes or 8 nowadays. And yes, not getting a full PE credit was indeed stupid.

Oh, and then there was engineering, which I was just plain bad at. This is going to sound really horrible, but most of the assignments were partner-based, and I found a partner who was Korean and super good at that class. His English was a little lacking and some of his drawings were messy, and he couldn't write neatly to save his life. So I told him do the draft of the drawing, explain what he was doing to me, and I'd write all of the explanations, and he could design and build to his heart's content and just let me know if he needed help or if there was something simple he wanted me to do. It worked really well; we both got A's. But yeah, no way would I have passed without him.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

I love this movie!

Watched "The Mighty Ducks" last night.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

You should watch McFarland. Sports movies are iffy to me. I'm not fan of basketball so that out and football but I don't mind Rudy (though I haven't seen it in forever) and Invincible. I used to not mind Blind Side but now it ehhh.

That is on the list to watch.

 

[FutureCEO]

We also have Foreign Language as well. I do think having class that teaches us the proper way to write and grammar is great. It is also awesome that you had an English teacher that did both within one literature based class.

You know what people need but they don't do it for some reason.

I took home ec and a basic financial course (and when I say course, probably a one block of class in home ec). in high school. Americans are dumb when it comes to money. They need a class to teach Americans how invest, save and etc.

Of course, the government wants you to spend more so maybe that's why it's not taught in schools.

 

[Goofyernmost]

There was a whole conversation in my house about the CDC recommendation that you wear a mask during sex.

Probably if it is with strangers, but if you live together in any sense of the word, it's kind of late to worry about that. Besides that kind of protection should be the least of your worries at that point. It's amazing the amount of opinions being formulated without actually thinking about the big picture. I wonder if anyone should look into whether or not the inability to have proper brain function is a symptom of Covid19.

 

[Lilofan]

You know what people need but they don't do it for some reason.

I took home ec and a basic financial course (and when I say course, probably a one block of class in home ec). in high school. Americans are dumb when it comes to money. They need a class to teach Americans how invest, save and etc.

The American economy is being supported by the "slaves to debt" mentality and personal lifestyle and choices. If more Americans actually made sacrifices and learned to save and invest, our economy would collapse.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Figgy, my heart is breaking. Deb was one of my first WDWMagic friends. We corresponded frequently and had the pleasure of meeting at our beloved Poly back in 2015. She introduced me to the Lapu Lapu.

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I lost touch with her when she left this site, as I am not on any other social media. Please PM me with any info you may have, thanks.

I've been part of this board since 2003, however, I very seldom even notice who is posting something. I read the post, enjoy or comment when I feel the need and really have no connections to anyone personally. Well, there is @JenniferS but she doesn't count cause she's Canadian. I do recognize more now actually because of Jennifer I seem to pay more attention to identities. Anyway, I don't recognize the "name" at all. Which one is she... left or right! At any rate... sorry to hear about that. At my age I get those notices way to often for comfort. May she RIP!

 

[Songbird76]

At my school it seems anyway or I just don't pay attention to groups. I guess there are different groups like band, artsy theater, sporty and stuff like that but I just look at them as people that go to my school. I was also in the musical my Freshman year where I played Marty Maraschino in Grease and this past year the musical got cancelled. My main thing is cheerleading that I do in the Fall for football and Winter for Basketball. I love that. I have been to all the dances expect for the proms because I am not a Junior or Senior yet. Well I am gonna be a Junior this year. I do like going to the sports parties but not all the time. My boyfriend plays on the Soccer team so I almost always go to when they are having a party. My parents don't put a ton of pressure on me. They want me to do my best, but they also want me to enjoy my school life and I do think that is what I am doing.

Well all that is going to look good on a college application. Being a well-rounded student. You have more than just academics or sports. So well done! I did cheerleading in junior high when we only had cheerleading for basket ball and we had to try out and everything, though it was a small school and we didn't do any tumbling and weren't allowed to do any big stunts. My freshman year, they decided to let everyone be a cheerleader who wanted to. You still had to try out, and you could put a prefference for which sport you'd like to cheer for, and you could put more than one as long as they weren't at the same time, but everyone would get a spot somewhere, mostly for wrestling because you sat at the side of the mat and only used arm movements, so you didn't have to be as coordinated. There were also no half time routines for Wrestling, so that's where most of the girls went. I cheered for football and basketball...I don't think I'd do football again, because it's just too cold in Wyoming and we didn't have an actual coach, just a faculty advisor. She didn't want us to wear coats, even lettermans jackets, because it covered up the uniform. But when it's barely above zero and snowing, you can't be out there in a mini skirt and short sleeved shirts! My mom was furious.

Anyway, when they let everyone on at least one squad, there was one girl who had tried out in junior high and hadn't made it. I had been on the squad for 2 years, and she asked me to help her. So in the summer, I spent the whole summer teaching her the cheers, helping her with her technique, etc...she made basketball cheerleading, which was the hardest squad to get onto, so she did well. But we were freshmen, it was her first time cheering, and she thought she should be captain, because her mom had been the captain of her squad when she was in school. I was like...no, there's a senior who has been cheering since her freshman year....she's the oldest AND has the most experience. SHE shoud be captain. Then one of the girls ended up moving, but hadn't told anyone yet, and it was this girl's best friend. So when we went to order the uniforms, the one girl wasn't there that day for some reason, so the captain wannabe told us not to order one for the girl because she was moving and wouldn't be there. She wasn't even supposed to know the girl was moving. When the girl came back to school, she was asked about it, and the captain wannabe blamed it on me, saying I had told everyone she was moving. I hadn't even known. The other girls stood up for me and said it wasn't me who blabbed, it was her best friend....then the best friend got mad at me for not taking the wrap for her. It just got to be less than fun because of the one girl, and I sometimes had to choose between speech and debate and cheerleading, so I didn't go out for it again the next year. She got to be captain, the senior graduated, and the other upper classmen didn't go out for it. Sad, but it all worked out for the best. I ended up loving speech and debate even more. Plus I already had student council, honor society, plays and musicals, and I babysat a couple times a week. More activities just wasn't in the cards, and I have never been a partier. Even in college, I only went to 2 parties, one of which I spent taking a nap. It's just not my scene. I did go to all the school dances, though.

 

[Tuvalu]

I've been part of this board since 2003, however, I very seldom even notice who is posting something. I read the post, enjoy or comment when I feel the need and really have no connections to anyone personally. Well, there is @JenniferS but she doesn't count cause she's Canadian. I do recognize more now actually because of Jennifer I seem to pay more attention to identities. Anyway, I don't recognize the "name" at all. Which one is she... left or right! At any rate... sorry to hear about that. At my age I get those notices way to often for comfort. May she RIP!

She is on the left.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

For sports movies my favorites is Miracle.

That is also my favorite. Next would be “The Cutting Edge”.

 

[Songbird76]

Just so long as band and orchestra class doesn't teach kids to hate music!

That's completely dependent on the teacher. I had one really awesome band/choir teacher, then she retired and we got an AWFUL one. He yelled as us every day and called us losers, and told us we were never going to amount to anything, and how much we sucked, and that he wished he was back in his old school. That was the one and only thing my mother ever let me quit before the end of the year. At the last concert, he yelled at the parents and told them how bad they all were as parents because they didn't make their kids practice enough, and their kids were all worthless human beings. Somehow, his contract didn't get renewed! I didn't go out for band the next year, but then they got an alcoholic who threw things at kids when they made a mistake, and she ended up getting fired for choking a student and they found her alcohol stash in the filing cabinet. I never took band again.

 

[Figgy1]

B's been in the pool in 55 degree weather. He doesn't do that anymore, but he'll go out in 65-70 degree weather.

Boys

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

You go for it. I honestly don't mind reading books on my own terms. It is when I am told to read a certain boring book and then I have to write a paper on it or take quizzes and tests on it and I actually haven't read it. The PE thing wouldn't be so bad except there is way too much running. That is all we seem to do in P.E. is run. I get sick of the timed runs. I am not going to be a long distance runner or a sprinter or any of that. I'd much rather play basketball or soccer even though I'd suck at it just let me do that. Going to Disney well I don't have any problem with that at all.

When I had PE (we called it gym class), we would choose a different sport each semester. The only class that was a running class was called “jogging”, where we had to run around the track. I took that my last semester because no other class fit my schedule, but then I got to go home after so it wasn’t too bad. I actually learned to like it because I saw myself start to run farther with not tiring out so much. I saw progression and the ability to see progression is a motivator to not be so negative about something you think you do not like. Now if all you do every semester in PE is run, that stinks. I took volleyball, tennis, badminton, gymnastics, and soccer. I would think that in FL they would give you more variety.

 

[Songbird76]

We also have Foreign Language as well. I do think having class that teaches us the proper way to write and grammar is great. It is also awesome that you had an English teacher that did both within one literature based class.

Foreign language is an excellent way to learn grammar, too! Is it required at your school? It wasn't in mine, but I took one year of spanish and 3 of german. I don't remember my German because it's just similar enough to Dutch to get me confused when I was learning to speak Dutch, so I focused on that and let the German go. I can still remember a very small bit of spanish, but not even enough to have a basic conversation. I can ask where someone is from, how they are, and where the bathroom is, and that's about as far as my level will take me.

 

[Figgy1]

 

[MinnieM123]

That is also my favorite. Next would be “The Cutting Edge”.

I like that movie, too, because of the figure skating. I also liked Ice Castles (Robby Benson was the star in that one -- an oldie.) ⛸

 

[MinnieM123]

I wonder if anyone should look into whether or not the inability to have proper brain function is a symptom of Covid19.

Don't think that's necessary, although I can only respond for myself. I've been afflicted with bran malfunction my entire life -- long before COVID-19.

 

[Songbird76]

It was so stupid when I was in school. We only had to have one PE credit. But if you were in honors or Gifted science classes, you had four days of PE and one day that was an extra science period for a lab. So they wouldn't give you the full PE credit. It was basically being punished for being smart. I think they've since fixed that. Anyway, you weren't allowed to pick what you took. Nope. You did what the rest of the class did. And let's face it, the asthmatic who hates running hated most of what we did. I was fine with soccer if I could be goalie. I was actually very good at goalie, and I didn't have to run. I liked softball because you only had to run short distances. I didn't mind football for the same reason; you ran and then you got a break. We also had a ping pong unit that I liked because we didn't have to get dressed. Oh, but I hated pretty much everything else. And with my asthma, if it gets below 55 degrees, my lungs don't want to do it. If it's allergy season, my lungs don't want to exercise outside, especially running. But gym teachers for the most part don't get that, so they see that as being lazy.

Oh, and the pacer test that I mentioned to @Letteyeti . It's literally running across the gym to the sound of a beeper until you can't do it anymore. That used to get my asthma going horribly to the point where my allergist finally wrote me a note to get me out of it because I'd end up needing my nebulizer afterward. But I could pass the sit-up test with flying colors, much to the amazement of the PE teachers. One time I was the last one going, and the teacher was just staring at me like she couldn't believe it.

College we only had to take one PE credit, so I chose ice skating. It was fun; I enjoyed it. Indoors, it doesn't bother me to be in the cold; I guess because it's regulated. But it took me years to get over the mental block of hating exercise that PE taught me. Now I'm a very active adult. I go for walks on the weekend, I do cardio on my mini elliptical during the week, but I've figured out I need my exercise to be fairly mindless. I can't put a lot of thought into my movements or what I'm doing, and I need music or conversation or something else to be mentally focused on. I feel like if PE were more tailored to kids who were like me, then maybe it would be better. Or if there were more options like you had with weight training. I probably would have gone for that.

I liked anything dancy, but we never did anything like that in PE. It was mostly units on different sports, like football, volleyball, basketball, badminton (you SO don't want to put a racquet in my hands!!! It is not safe!) and I am just not that coordinated with anything beyond my own body. I could do the cheerleading moves, or choreography in swing choir, but give me any sort of prop or tool to use, and you're asking for trouble. I can trip over air, and when I first started my job almost 12 years ago, we didn't have carts, so we had to carry a basket through the aisles to collect the items needed for each order. I don't know how many times I ran into a stupid support beam with the basket because I always underestimate the amount of space I have...I still run into door handles frequently. I'm just not athletic at all. Had I been in a bigger school, I'd have never made a cheerleading squad and it's amazing I made it through that relatively unscathed, with the exception of the time I fell. I hated PE because it made me look like an idiot, not because I hated the sports. I actually played basketball in junior high, and I was a fantastic bench warmer. I was lucky if I got to play for 30 seconds in a game. But then when I got into high school, girls basketball coincided with boys basketball (cheerleading) and speech and debate...I couldn't do cheerleading and basketball, so I went where it was more fun and I was actually decent at it. If there had been something dance-like, I would have loved it!

 

[93boomer]

I like that movie, too, because of the figure skating. I also liked Ice Castles (Robby Benson was the star in that one -- an oldie.) ⛸

Loved Ice Castles!!!

 

[Songbird76]

Yeah, I think they also did it the way they did it because in junior year they switch over the upper level English kids to AP English. So they do teach you grammar there because there is some of it on the AP Comp exam. They don't in senior year for the AP literature exam. I also continued with the Spanish so I could take the AP exam; I was in Spanish 4 when I was a sophomore and was like, eh, why stop now. And then when I was in school, there weren't alternating days. Now they have A/B days and longer classes, like 90 minutes each; IDK if they take 7 classes or 8 nowadays. And yes, not getting a full PE credit was indeed stupid.

Oh, and then there was engineering, which I was just plain bad at. This is going to sound really horrible, but most of the assignments were partner-based, and I found a partner who was Korean and super good at that class. His English was a little lacking and some of his drawings were messy, and he couldn't write neatly to save his life. So I told him do the draft of the drawing, explain what he was doing to me, and I'd write all of the explanations, and he could design and build to his heart's content and just let me know if he needed help or if there was something simple he wanted me to do. It worked really well; we both got A's. But yeah, no way would I have passed without him.

Was engineering in place of a science credit or something? That's not something I would have ever thought would be a required course. What in the world are non-engineers going to use that for? We had the 4X4: 4 years each of Science, Math, Social Studies, and English. And each year was a specific class for that requirement. For math, freshman year was algebra, sophomore was geometry, junior was Algebra II, and Senior was either Trig/Pre-Calc, or Math Applications, which was like math in the real world...balancing a checkbook, calculating a sale price, etc. I was in the advanced math program, so I took everything one year earlier and then my senior year I had calculus. For science we did Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and then Physics or Natural science....I did Physics. For Social Studies, I know sophomore was World History, Junior was US History, and Senior was Government/Economics. I don't remember Freshman year....geography maybe? I really don't know. And then we had to have 2 years of PE, and we got 2 electives every year, 3 in the years when we didn't have PE.

I know in the bigger town, they had more fun options for the core classes...like, they had a Psychology class, they had a poetry class, drama and debate counted as an English credit, and I think they had specific period literature classes where we just had "English class" which was part grammar/writing, and part reading. We didn't have any options. You took the same core classes as everyone else in your grade. Of course, there were only 32 of us in my graduating class, so there were only 2 teachers in the school for each subject anyway. One took 2 grade levels, and the other took the other 2. They couldn't really offer anything other than the main subject.