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Which subjects at high school made you most anxious?

Dodge ball in Jr High gave me horrible memories. Boys threw balls as hard as they could at you. In elementary school l was picked as pitcher for softball. I actually loved to run in elementary school around the field. Math in Jr high was taught by a chauvinist male who believed woman didn't need or couldn't learn math, so l ended up hating him and the class. In high school, a English teacher was asking me a bunch of strange questions like did l dye my hair and were my eyelashes real? What? Excuse me, you don't think l feel self-conscious enough? If my hair was dirty, it turned pitch black, and l am very pale, l was goth before it became a thing. Lol
 
Absolutely no question - PE. I already knew I had no physical coordination. There was absolutely no need to rehash that at the High School level. My school was also JUST shy of 2 miles from my house, so I could not ride a bus to school. I had to ride my bike or walk the almost 2 miles each way, so I was getting all the physical fitness I needed just going to school and back.
 
marc_101 said:
I guess that growing up in a poor, third-world country has it advantages. I was a free-range kid with PE classes that consisted of a bunch of kids playing soccer or chasing each other. :)
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That sounds pretty similar to what I had, but I'm glad you don't see that as a nightmare.
 
Mostly subjects would make me anxious if the teacher was firm and the consequences were personal.

My first grade teacher was quite firm. She could be loud, too. So you didn’t mess with her. I tried harder than ever before to be on my best behavior. The one thing that made me most anxious then was the SRA Listening Skill Builder exercise. The teacher would read a story, and then we’d do two exercises in our workbooks: Answer yes and no questions, and then choose pictures in our workbooks based on the questions the teacher would ask. I didn’t do too well at it, and I often got answers wrong. After each question the teacher would ask for a show of hands for how many students got the answer right, and I often didn’t raise my hand. Eventually the teacher would single me out in front of the class. One time before the exercise the teacher said to me, “You’ve got to listen very carefully. You’ve been getting too many wrong.” Then when I’d get an answer wrong she’d criticize me. Naturally, that didn’t help me much. At a later time after the exercise she’d say to me, “Your listening is getting worse.”

In third grade Art would make me anxious because we had a new art teacher who was firm and didn’t take mistakes lightly.

Of course in later years, if a teacher was being unfair, I wouldn’t just accept it. I’d protest, rebel, or answer back. (That actually may have started in second grade.)
 
P.E. classes, like most others here. Unlike many others I always had superb balance, fast reflexes, and I was very fit. It was the social aspect of team sports that I couldn't stand, I enjoyed the physical side of things though. I excelled at things like wrestling and gymnastics. I liked wrestling, a chance to embarrass my bullies. I liked archery too, but I got banned for deliberately targeting seagulls after I hit a second one.

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Something I didn't like, it didn't really make me anxious but we had a class called "kristendom". That means "Christianity". It was a solid 45 minutes crammed full of religion. And the teacher was a small, elderly woman with a bad temper. Mike Tyson would have been a little scared of her, she was rough. That class was a little stressing.
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That's something that doesn't happen in public schools here, there'd be riots in the streets if anyone tried to introduce it. Even in Christian schools they're not allowed to force children to study their religion. We have strict laws about that sort of nonsense.
 
Didn't you hate it when the classroom was really quiet (under strict orders to be quiet by the teacher), and everyone was a bit scared of the teacher, and the teacher would suddenly yell out your name across the classroom because he or she caught sight of you making a tiny mistake on your work? It was one of the most scariest experiences of my school life and so very embarrassing, as all the kids in the room probably thought ''oh they're shouting at the quietest, shyest, timidest kid in the class, how ironic and embarrassing'' and you just sit in your chair shaking and wanting the ground to open up and swallow you.

I remember when I was about 15 I had an art teacher who often had mood swings; one day he was funny and making everyone laugh, the next day he was shouting very angrily for no reason. So one day when I was in his art class he went into the art class next door and shouted ''can you keep the NOISE DOWN??!!!!'' to the class in there so loudly that it made us all jump too, and we all put our heads down and quietly carried on with our work so that we wouldn't get in his bad books. When he returned, you could hear a pin drop in our classroom, and I done the same as what all the others were doing; quietly getting on with my work. But suddenly the art teacher shouted my name across the room, and started yelling at me because I was using too much black charcoal on my paper (even though it was part of the exercise to make a picture using charcoal and pencil). So I nervously put down my charcoal and picked up my pencil to shade in the lighter bits, but then he yelled my name again and sighed ''what are you doing??'' So I put down my pencil, unsure of what he wanted from me. I was so nervous, I just wanted the class to end. I hate when a teacher is in a bad mood and they suddenly start taking it out on one of the quietest, innocent, well-behaved kids in the class.
 
I was often scared of the PE teachers so didn't often dare to excuse myself from PE classes. Whenever I did, I always felt guilty or embarrassed, like the PE teacher might not believe me and I had to pretend I was really feeling unwell to make it believable. Sometimes the teacher would have a go at you for not doing PE, and I hated being yelled at by teachers. So I just did the classes. It was only 2 hours a week the first 3 years of high school, then 1 hour a week the last 2 years, unless you took PE as an option, which I definitely did not.
 
I hated, hated, hated labs. I could never get them right and they were all so tedious with a ton of moving parts that overwhelmed me. Not to mention all the various warnings like "if you do this by accident, you'll create a toxic gas and kill the whole class."

I can write code to check if I calculated an abstract equation correctly. Not the case when doing real world equations like measuring out the right volumes and such.
 
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That's something that doesn't happen in public schools here, there'd be riots in the streets if anyone tried to introduce it. Even in Christian schools they're not allowed to force children to study their religion. We have strict laws about that sort of nonsense.
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They don't do it now, it was replaced with a new class called KRLE. That's short for "Kristendom, Religion, Livssyn, Etikk". And that means "Christianity, Religion, Lifestance, Ethic". When I went to school it was just "Christianity class".

We had that class because the country was built on Christianity. They converted the vikings to Christianity 1000 years ago, so it has a long history here and that's what we learned about. But surprisingly, religion is not a big deal here. the majority of people don't care about it.
 
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Considering the widespread influence of Christianity throughout history and now, it's just bigotry that stops it from being taught. Not that it should be taught as an evangelistic tool but as part of a well-rounded education. But, of course, I could not be more biased.
 
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Not that it should be taught as an evangelistic tool but as part of a well-rounded education.
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I mostly looked at it like that, it was just a class like other classes. Where we learned about the history of Christianity and how it affected our country. They didn't try to make us religious, that would have been different.
 
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P.E. classes, like most others here. Unlike many others I always had superb balance, fast reflexes, and I was very fit. It was the social aspect of team sports that I couldn't stand, I enjoyed the physical side of things though.
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I noticed that many here did not like PE class. I was like you, I enjoyed the physical side of things. But as you mention, the social aspect wasn't great. If I look at only the social aspect, I didn't like PE class. But the physical aspect made up for it. I could always focus on that, just training hard.
 
PE class just made me anxious because of the competitive kids mostly. They'd take games in PE really seriously and if things like that aren't really your thing and you let the team down, they'll swear at you.

However, I liked group activities like one time we had to form two lines facing each other and one of the kids at the front of one of the lines would throw the ball to the kid standing at the front of the other line opposite then run to the back of their line. Can't really explain it but I remember doing it, and it was so much fun.

Like I said, if it was just simple exercise or games then I was okay. But if the rules were too complicated and kids were too competitive then I just got anxious.
 
PE, Public Speaking, Biology, Theater, Math.

I really liked math, but there were times it would be challenging. It takes me more time to process information and I would have to learn a different strategy.

I hated biology because to me, it was so boring. I hated those Punnett squares. I hated public speaking because of my trauma of bullying. Never liked theatre because of my anxiety and how it would affect me. I didn’t like PE because of my lack of coordination and confidence.
 
I remember sometimes in French or Spanish class we had to get into groups of about 4 or 5 and practice a full conversation in French or Spanish then speak it out in front of the class, and this always made me really nervous because I didn't like standing up speaking in front of the class, even though it was rehearsed. I wasn't very good at languages so that was why it made me so nervous.
 
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Our French teacher lost her temper one day: "If all you're going to do is sit there saying 'dunno' all the time you can at least learn to say that in French. French kids say 'je pas'.".
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I'm gonna start saying that. Thanks!

Edit: Wait, what the heck. I googled "je pas translation" and it came up "I'm a dog" in latin. LOL

2nd Edit: I'm gonna start saying it anyway.
 
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