Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Were you ever bullied in school? If so, what did you do?
Bullied is probably a strong
word for what I went through. I was teased a lot. The teasing happened during
elementary school and junior high but in High School I was mostly just ignored.
I was never beaten up and of the three fights I actually got into, they were
not with the popular guys and I won two of them.
Share a memory you have
from your school days.
Didn’t I just talk about
this? Oh well, let me come up with another story. My Biology teacher was mister
Shaw and he loved me, and I loved him. I actually got a 100% in Biology 30
(that would be like AP Bio). He was the ultimate environmentalist (I was going
to say “tree hugger”) and continually preached that to us. He was LDS but
refused to toe the “culturally” expected line. He would only have two kids
because to have more would eventually overpopulate the world. He loved horses
because on a hiking trail their poop would eventually turn into a soft covering
on the trail but hated cows because their “cow pies” would never be acceptable.
He called roadkill “sail bunnies” because road kill was usually rabbits and in
time they could be thrown like a frisbee. He hated California because it
represented everything that he found hateful. Overpopulation, pollution (in
those days LA was covered with continuous heavy brown smog) and people who were
famous for ridiculous reasons such as movie stars and professional sports.
If anything was stupid or made
no sense, he would call it “Micky Mouse”. For example, if someone gave a dumb
answer to a question, he would say that it was a micky mouse answer. I had a
hard time getting Mr Shaw out of my mind when we decided to move to California.
I remember one time when we
were studying genetics, we had a couple of aquariums full of fruit flies in the
classroom. Over time, several fruits flies escaped, and they were all over the
classroom. He told us that fruit flies were clean and carried no diseases and
if he caught anyone killing a fruit fly, he would dock points from their
grades.
What was your best subject
at school?
Apparently, it was biology. I
got a final grade of 100%. I did get “A’s” in Chemistry and Physics as well
though. I also got “A’s” in auto mechanics and drafting.
Just for comparison, the only
“F” I ever got was in PE when we were doing wrestling. What a disgusting sport.
I couldn’t stand the thought of grabbing onto some guy’s sweaty body. Ugh.
What was your least
favorite subject in school?
After that last question you might think I would say PE, but I actually loved PE and being physical. I just hated wrestling. My least favorite subject was social studies. At the time we were only required to take one social studies class so that is all I took. As I’ve grown older, I have begun to love history and psychology and I feel I missed out on some good information. To be honest though, I wouldn’t have appreciated it in high school.
Did you participate in extra-curricular activities?
There weren’t any
extra-curricular activities that I was interested in participating in. The year
after I graduated, they started a biology club that I would have joined but it
was a year too late for me.
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