Monday, March 10, 2014

You Do The Math.


Each of the middle school students at The Hellenic take English, Social Studies, Math, Science, and Greek every day. Once a week, they have Spanish, Art, Music, Computer, Library, Gym, and Religious Education.
So, which classes do the students look forward to and which do they dread?
It’s a very close race between the top three classes – they are separated by just two votes. 
Nosing ahead for the win is Science. (Pardon me while I take a bow.)
Right behind Science is English.
The students love Mrs. Minaker’s English class. It’s a great class – full of life and action but, really, it’s not a fair competition between Science and English. I mean, they’re not launching rockets, experimenting with dry ice, or smashing rocks in English, right?
You don’t have any exploding sonnets upstairs, do you Mrs. Minaker?
The third most popular class is Math. I guess my endless word problems centered around a UPS truck full of negative packages have not deterred their interest.
This brings us to the class some of our students dread. It’s the one daily class more students dislike than any other
It’s….drum roll please……Math. 
Third most popular and least popular class at the same time. Funny how that works.
I’m sure we have students who’d be happy to skip Math every day.
“I’ll have the high-quality middle school education, but, please, hold the Math.”
Yeah, it doesn’t really work that way.

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