Which High School elective class are you glad you took?

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I was on the phone today and while chatting with someone I just looked down at my keyboard and kinda chuckled. My keyboard at work is old and I'm the only one that uses it. After many years of use, I'm missing many of the printed letters on the keys such as the D, E, F, K, L, N, R, S and T. Some are entirely gone and some are partially gone and I didn't even notice it until today. I don't think my hubby would be happy to try and use my computer at work. LOL!

I attached a pic of it that I took. For some reason I couldn't just copy and paste it? My chromebook is a finicky. Anyways, the glare makes it look like the numbers are gone too, but they are all there.

I'm soooo glad I took typing in high school. I remember that when I took it, I had a really heavy load and I wanted an elective class that wouldn't require homework. At the time I was vying for the Salutatorian spot, playing sports, and taking advanced classes. I thought typing would be an easy A without homework, so I took it. I did get that A and actually really enjoyed the class. It is (by far) one of the most used skills I learned in high school especially considering it was an elective class. It has saved me more time than I will probably ever know.

What elective class in high school are you glad that you took? Reading, writing, and arithmetic were required, so those don't count!
 

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We had several vocational classes. I picked Auto Mechanics. Took 3 hours my sophmore and junior years. I had already planned to be a mechanic and this was right up my alley. Was working as a mechanic my senior year. That lasted about 4. But it was still a good building block for getting into Industrial Maintenance after Electronics School.
 
Oh, I agree! I took typing class as many semesters as I could, two I think. I also became a swift typist and it has helped me immensely.
I've been able to do more than 80 wpm., yes, correctly.
Fencing, haha. I learned how to not jab my future sister-in-law who at the time was a good friend.
Drafting. Didn't do well in it but enjoyed it and helped me to understand architecture.
 
Bacpacker said:
We had several vocational classes. I picked Auto Mechanics. Took 3 hours my sophmore and junior years. I had already planned to be a mechanic and this was right up my alley. Was working as a mechanic my senior year. That lasted about 4. But it was still a good building block for getting into Industrial Maintenance after Electronics School.
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We had shop for males and home economics for females.

I'm glad that I took typing, but when I was in h.s., we didn't have other choices. Maybe shop class taught a variety of things like auto mechanics. I do know they learned woodworking.

Since I was already the chief cook and cleaner at home, I didn't want to take home ec, but that was I was told to take by the school counselor. I was not happy about it. It never occurred to me to take shop, or to try to. A girl in the grade behind me took shop. I wish I could have.
 
Patchouli said:
Oh, I agree! I took typing class as many semesters as I could, two I think. I also became a swift typist and it has helped me immensely.
I've been able to do more than 80 wpm., yes, correctly.
Fencing, haha. I learned how to not jab my future sister-in-law who at the time was a good friend.
Drafting. Didn't do well in it but enjoyed it and helped me to understand architecture.
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I failed my language of French so I substituted typing. Was dyslexic so failed typing. Substituted art as my language and passed.

I took calculus, physics, and lab assistant in my senior year of HS.

Ben
 
Typing served me well through the years, probably more than any other single class. I can still type today. They wouldn't let me take algebra and calculus the same year or graduate early, so I took typing for 2 years. Could never break the 70word a minute barrier though. The teacher wasn't much help. The mean kids would climb out the window, go around, knock on the door and ask for themselves... just to watch the poor lady get confused when she couldn't find them.

(the math classes came in handy too)

edit to add...the poor lady retired after my first year. Then we got a new typing teacher and one electric typewriter for everyone to practice on. The rest were manual, smith corona's seems like.
 
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I think typing was one of the most beneficial classes I took really. I've used it throughout all my jobs, college all that.
Home economics was a fun class but It was just a filler for me.
I took a bone head algebra my senior year..I didn't need it as I had whatever math I already needed to graduate passed a year prior but I sucked at math. I knew going to college I'd have to take more math so I took the college bonehead algebra.
I'm so glad I did..this teacher was a great teacher . He explained math in a way that clicked with me and he was the first math teacher to tell me some people think about math problems differently and suspected i did this. I actually did really well and for the first time ever enjoyed solving math problems. So I kept taking the next up ones through him all year.
I'm so glad I did because they were all the required college math classes so when I took math in college and was struggling with the teacher and got my first D grade in years..prettybig blow for my honor roll for years student ego..the counselor advised me that I didn't need it anyway..
A good teacher can definitely make a huge difference tho..
 
I don't remember high school electives. I guess some of the classes I took must have been. What I remember were Math (Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Calculus), Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Government, German - stuff like that. I don't remember a whole lot of choices (what I consider an "elective" to be). Possibly, I was so sure of what I wanted to take that I just considered them all requirements and not electives. Maybe was Band considered an elective? I took that. I did like Band. "And this one time, at Band Camp, ..."
 
Auto body and shop. I was the only girl I knew of who took those classes. No home ec thank you, I learned skills that I did not use a whole lot in later years, but those teachers gave me self confidence and respect. I had to do no less than any of the guys. I was not as fast or proficient, but I did it and was encouraged. No discrimination, no harassment. Good memories.
 
Oddly enough, the most useful - Bachelor Living, (Home EC for boys).
We had huge teenage appetites, and being able to cook (and eat) something besides cafeteria food was wonderful!
And it helped me a ton when I lived single for the next decade, and the decade between wife#1 and #2. :D
...Never once found a use for algebra or calculus. :(
 
Patchouli said:
Fencing, haha. I learned how to not jab my future sister-in-law who at the time was a good friend.
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My daughter started up a fencing group and teaches on the Kona side of the Big Island. Here are a few from her group, and some that came over from the Hilo side, and even one that flew in from Oahu for her birthday. She hadn't even met the one from Oahu (had heard of him though). Word had traveled about her group, he somehow also heard it was her birthday, and decided - Hey, why not fly over there and join the festivities! She brought a couple of the group here to Colorado a few months ago to compete in a huge SCA multi-day event. Everyone knew about "The Hawaiians" on the battlefield.

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I've never touched a typewriter in my life. In high-school I took; welding, auto mechanics, wood shop, forestry, agriculture and general shop classes. At my school we could check out the schools tractor and take it home.
In my senior year we had what we called work release classes. Usually the last couple classes of each day we went to work. My jobs at that time was ranch work.
 
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