Which High School elective class are you glad you took?

[angie_nrs]

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!

 

[Amish Heart]

I'm with you on the typing. I learned to type decently and it got me jobs. I met my husband at work and was hired because I was a fast, accurate typist.

 

[Bacpacker]

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.

 

[Patchouli]

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.

 

[Weedygarden]

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.

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.

 

[Neb]

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.

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

 

[Pearl]

I was "A" student, top of the line, ONLY WANTED TO GET TO THE RANCH!! I truly didn't care about school! Yet, I'm in the "Key Club"! Won a scholarship, didn't take it.....

 

[Peanut]

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.