My preps for 16 yrs was—US Government, 32 semesters of teaching it. American History, one year of it. Economics—bc two different high school’s Administration didn’t know that working in real estate and wholesale mortgage is a Business dept(Financial) class and confused it with ‘the economy’. ♀️.
My two Favorites—World History, I taught for 13 years.
And the class I created from scratch bc we needed electives in the Social Studies dept , and the Sociology class did an all school survey and my class title was the one that had the most votes, Women In History.
I created it to ANNOY two male teachers in my dept. that did not like that I have a hyphenated last name, I as told ‘pick one’ and it’s ’not professional that I allow students to use my initials instead of Mrs(which I’ve never gone by personally, always Ms) xxxx.’ My students always called me JC or Ms JC. Those two guys HATED THAT!
My Women In History class lasted 7 years until I had to leave for disability for tremors, fibromyalgia and migraines.
I had the entire football team take that class as an elective two. Many years I had 2-3 preps of it (that means enough students for 2-3 classes each semester). All for a class that was created as a joke.
