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Worthless Classes

Created on: 05/24/09 03:45 PM Views: 567 Replies: 9
Worthless Classes
Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:45 AM

So what were some of the most worthless classes you had at TVHS?

My list includes:
1) Whatever that class was that Bernie Hickman the year he got sick. I honestly don't remember what the class was.
2) Jerry Porteus' class - He was the AD so he averaged being in the class about 15 minutes a day.
3) Chemistry with "Jumping" Joe Burcher, which is ironic since teaching chemistry is one of my favorite science topics. All I remember doing in that class is bending glass tubing and taking the multiple choice test that the correct choices spelled out "Happy Thanksgiving."

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."
-Homer Simpson

 
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:47 AM

Jim McCullough wrote:

So what were some of the most worthless classes you had at TVHS?

My list includes:
1) Whatever that class was that Bernie Hickman the year he got sick. I honestly don't remember what the class was.
2) Jerry Porteus' class - He was the AD so he averaged being in the class about 15 minutes a day.
3) Chemistry with "Jumping" Joe Burcher, which is ironic since teaching chemistry is one of my favorite science topics. All I remember doing in that class is bending glass tubing and taking the multiple choice test that the correct choices spelled out "Happy Thanksgiving."



Oh, wait! I do remember Brenda Arnold catching her armpit on fire by reaching over a Bunsen burner.

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."
-Homer Simpson

 
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 04:27 PM

Typing class with Mr. Wortman. I spend all the class time at his desk talking to him, could type 7 words a minute and got an A- for the class.

 
Edited 05/24/09 04:28 PM
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 08:55 AM

Douglas C Eppley wrote:

Typing class with Mr. Wortman. I spend all the class time at his desk talking to him, could type 7 words a minute and got an A- for the class.


I had forgotten about that guy. Biggest thing I remember about his class was him sending guys to their locker for them to bring him a copy of Playboy to "read."

I will have to say typing is one of the more useful classes I took. I am hardly a masterful typists but knowing the home keys and their various counterparts has made my typing serviceable.

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."
-Homer Simpson

 
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 03:31 PM

Bernie Hickman taught Government. We were the first class that had Government as a semester course and Consumer Econmics the second semester. I don't remember the name of the sub who took Hickman's place that year. At least the girls didn't have to sit up front after Hickman left.
Porteus has a window-washing business in Coshocton now. He can usually be found washing the windows at McDonald's on Wednesday mornings around 9 AM.
Jumpin Joe's record for the number of "uh's" in a fifteen minute period while we were there was around 140. He broke that record a couple years later while I was observing him for an Ed. class, when he hit 186.

 
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Tuesday, September 1, 2009 07:22 AM

I think Government with Mr. Childers was worthless. We took notes every Monday, and had a multiple choice test every Friday straight from the notes. I would look at my notes at the end of Typing class the period before the test on Friday and Ace every test. I didn't learn a thing. Buster and Oz sat behind me and copied all the time.

The funniest thing that ever happened in there was one day Mr. Childers was talking about all the "rough, hard looking" women who worked at Essex Wire in Zanesville, and OZ, (completly unaware) pipes up with "My mom works there!" Childers was so embarassed he left the room and never came back the rest of class. We were all loosing it, and Oz was smiling from ear to ear. He couldn't figure out what was so funny.

 
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Friday, October 9, 2009 12:41 PM

Well, it seems there were a lot of bad classes during our tenure at TVHS, but since I don't see anyone else mentioning it I have to put in my vote for Miss Debenedictus's English Class. Good only as comic relief for all the things that were done to distract her and keep her from teaching bad english. The class was chaos (chalk flying, everyone talking and rolling their eyes, convincing her she lost a test or homework assignment that was never turned in and her giving a decent grade for it), and she could be convinced wrong answers were right and right ones wrong with just a little fuzzy logic. She always looked (probably was) confused.

 
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Thursday, July 8, 2010 10:06 PM

Robbie Haines wrote:

Bernie Hickman taught Government. We were the first class that had Government as a semester course and Consumer Econmics the second semester. I don't remember the name of the sub who took Hickman's place that year. At least the girls didn't have to sit up front after Hickman left.
Porteus has a window-washing business in Coshocton now. He can usually be found washing the windows at McDonald's on Wednesday mornings around 9 AM.
Jumpin Joe's record for the number of "uh's" in a fifteen minute period while we were there was around 140. He broke that record a couple years later while I was observing him for an Ed. class, when he hit 186.


I think Jim Cope was the sub.

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."
-Homer Simpson

 
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Thursday, July 8, 2010 10:08 PM

Darla Sarbaugh Neptune wrote:

I think Government with Mr. Childers was worthless. We took notes every Monday, and had a multiple choice test every Friday straight from the notes. I would look at my notes at the end of Typing class the period before the test on Friday and Ace every test. I didn't learn a thing. Buster and Oz sat behind me and copied all the time.

The funniest thing that ever happened in there was one day Mr. Childers was talking about all the "rough, hard looking" women who worked at Essex Wire in Zanesville, and OZ, (completly unaware) pipes up with "My mom works there!" Childers was so embarassed he left the room and never came back the rest of class. We were all loosing it, and Oz was smiling from ear to ear. He couldn't figure out what was so funny.


That's a great story!!!

Ironically, Childers became a pretty decent superintendent. Didn't he also tend bar at the Barn or Swallows when we had him as a teacher?

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."
-Homer Simpson

 
RE: Worthless Classes
Posted Thursday, July 8, 2010 10:11 PM

Rick Middleton wrote:

Well, it seems there were a lot of bad classes during our tenure at TVHS, but since I don't see anyone else mentioning it I have to put in my vote for Miss Debenedictus's English Class. Good only as comic relief for all the things that were done to distract her and keep her from teaching bad english. The class was chaos (chalk flying, everyone talking and rolling their eyes, convincing her she lost a test or homework assignment that was never turned in and her giving a decent grade for it), and she could be convinced wrong answers were right and right ones wrong with just a little fuzzy logic. She always looked (probably was) confused.


How that woman ever made it through a job interview is mind boggling! Were the interviewers on crack?

I remember Ed Glover used to go to her class multiple times a day just to raise hell. Beth Potter once asked her where she when to college. Ms. Debenedictus replied, "None of your business!" Beth said, "Oh! None of Your Business College! How nice!" I would love to be that quick witted.

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."
-Homer Simpson

 
 



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