What was your best and worst subjects in school?

I didn't take religion class in high school. It was optional and I never got around to it. In College, almost every class was religion class.

i remember you went to bible college

Correct. Homiletics (ie. preaching class) was my best subject in Bible college and I even won an award for doing outstanding work in the homiletics program.

lol. Ass. Technically true, although nitpicking something awful there. I imagine you're referring to the faulty parallelism and unnecessary plural of "subjects."

Did you want something along the lines of: "What was your best and your worst subject in school?"

Mine:

BEST: History and Econ/Personal Finance and Gym/Health (and before anyone says that's not a subject, let's look at the obesity rates, the inactivity levels, and the amount heart disease and type II diabetes in this country)

WORST: Chemistry and Math (post Statistics) Pre-Calculus, etc.

English/Language Arts is a subject I hated originally but gradually grew to favor it more and more throughout high school, college, and my early working adult life. Of course English/Language Arts is the subject more than any other that is rife with the absolute worst teachers and worse people who go into the profession. Oddly enough however, it also happens to be the subject with the best teachers too, although they're as rare as a moment in a Chris Nolan film where the camera holds still.

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Our music teacher was terrifying. Among other things her face was scarred which frightened us. One day she said we must compose a short musical piece & then perform it to the class. After 5 years of these lessons I still could not (and cannot) read music & the thought of her choosing me was horrifying. Luckily, she chose someone else.

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You probably remember that, once you were back to homeschooling that next year, the school principal called me up and ASKED me to let you come back because you pulled up the school's averages in standardized testing.

And I remember when you hit your high school years, you asked me to switch you to math that was useful. So we started you on a consumer math course instead, and you did much better... because it was useful info and not just theoretical math.

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Best: English classes
Worst: Science classes

If I didn't see a need to put in a lot of time for an assignment in any class (even ones I enjoyed), and I could still get an A (or perhaps a B, depending on the class), I wouldn't waste my precious teenage time on it.

When I found out that our district didn't require taking a math or a science course past tenth grade, I dropped both of those subjects like a hot potato and substituted them with English electives instead. I think I took every English class available by the time I graduated.

When I first did this in eleventh grade, I was called into the guidance counselor's office and asked why I wasn't signed up for a science or a math class. We wrangled back and forth a bit, with him saying I would need to be more well-rounded to get into a good college, and with me saying I intended to be an English major and therefore was specializing early.

He couldn't stop me from taking what I wanted, so I forged ahead. No math or science after 10th grade. I applied to just one school, Carnegie Mellon, for early decision. I got in. (Early decision meant that if they accepted you, you'd go there and not apply elsewhere.) So, I guess I was right.

I've always been not exactly intellectually lazy, but rather intellectually picky and focused. If something interests me, I can dive pretty deep. If it doesn't, no amount of requiring me to read about it will make it sink in.

You made a lot of good decisions. You were very focused even as young as 15.

I went to a good prep school, but was extremely bored. I never knew if it was the teachers or whether it was me.

Boredom in school could be the fault of the teachers, for sure. But it could also signal that the content/material was just not stimulating enough for you.