Which High School elective class are you glad you took?

[Duncan]

My first high school (9th - 10th grades) was a Jesuit school overseas, and the only 'elective' available was boat-building. But I studied Latin for two years (mandatory, of course, at a Jesuit school) and then two years more when we got back to a government school in the States, and then two semesters of Attic Greek at college. Now I can read (slowly) all of the Romance languages except Romanian.

Since I live -- for all practical purposes -- in a country with two 'official' languages, my wife and kids all became pretty fluent in Spanish as well.

Come to think of it, I probably would've been a lot better off if I'd taken wood shop instead!

 

[UserNameTaken]

Wood and metal shop. And choir. If ya think football players and cheerleaders get all the hook ups. Ya ain't never been to band camp!

Other good classes were scuba diving and surfing. Yes, we had surf "class" for credit. LOL And my other school had skiing one day a week. I can't add or speel, reel good, but I can drive a tank, and fly a plane.

 

[Peanut]

I’m amazed at some of the electives available to many of you. Alabama’s public education system was ranked 49th in the nation during my time. Thankfully there was Mississippi so we weren’t last. Still annoyed they didn’t have an early graduation program. Had to come back for a 12th year just for an english or math class. Where I grew up english should have counted as a foreign language anyway so I took another math ya’ll.

I didn’t need shop class, grew up farming, I lived it. I took it because I could leave school at lunch jr and sr year if I had a farm job. I had a never ending supply of farm jobs.

 

[d_marsh]

If ya think football players and cheerleaders get all the hook ups. Ya ain't never been to band camp!

Or youth group at church!

 

[Peepaw from Tex]

Ag class learned record keeping, welding, band saws , cutting torch, wood working, and even how to file taxes.

 

[OldSchool]

Auto Body Repair and Paint.

It revealed a hidden talent. I even made good use of it. It distracted from my electronics engineering classes, but I wouldn’t change it if I could.

 

[Spikedriver]

Creative Writing has been a plus for me. I only took it because the teacher was a sexy 24 year old, but learning how to craft stories and how to craft sentences inside those stories actually made me better at things like writing resumes. Sometimes it's not what you write, it's how you write it...

 

[Sourdough]

DECA program.
Was a retail business joint venture local retail business and the High School.

I only had in the school classes till noon.

 

[LadyLocust]

I didn’t . I took AP English, advanced science etc. Wish I would have taken a fun class or two. (((Hindsight)))

 

[angie_nrs]

I didn’t . I took AP English, advanced science etc. Wish I would have taken a fun class or two. (((Hindsight)))

Well that stinks! I took the more difficult classes as well to prepare my brain for college. But, I had a little wiggle room for choices since I didn't have the option of getting out of school early or taking AP classes for college credit. Dang, kids nowadays have it easy. I could've had most of my core classes done before I even graduated HS.

Looking back, I wish I would have taken shop class. I also wish I would have taken Spanish. We really didn't have a huge library of classes to choose from since my school was pretty small in compariison to most others around me. The other elective I took was band. It was fun to learn new marching routines and go to pep rallies and football games. I also think it's important to be able to play an instrument of some sort, even though I'm probably not very good at it anymore. I didn't go to band camp....but I did go to basketball camp. Yeah, not the same thing.......

I can't remember now what my typing speed was back in the day. We were heavily penalized for mistakes, so that played more of a factor back then, espeically considering it took a long time to correct mistakes via white out. LOL! Here is a typing test I found. My first attempt was 49 but my second was 61. I think perhaps doing this test daily would help to increase the speed. I just think it's fun.
https://www.typingtest.com/index.php