Best Boring Class

The bane of every student’s existence, a boring class with a boring teacher where the waves of boredom flow through the class bringing most to tears, but there are some classes where the teachers (normal veterans of teaching ) find ways to bring life to the class with just some good old fashion humor. Now some of these attempts fail miserably and makes every student hate that class just a little bit more. The using of comedy in class is even more crucial for higher level classes for the average student can cause a massive amount of stress. This situation where humor can make or break the class is all too real and in all honesty to many of the students.
One class this was true was my sophomore world history class in Vero Beach, Florida. Mr.K was my teacher he was a veteran of the air force and a veteran teacher of 15 years. Now history classes can be either immensely enjoyable or what seems like the most boring waste of time in all of human history. This class made me fall in love with history. Mr.K knew just how boring it could be and the first day of his class he told us he hated how history was taught, how it is way more than just remembering dates and times. With the inclusion of a healthy amount of sarcasm, a dark sense of humor and anecdotes that helped history come to life rather than some bland boring words on a page.
Going into the class I could tell right off the bat that it was going to be different instead of just getting busy work it was just a lecture, but it was different most lectures put people to sleep more than the average person learned. But this was different while learning about the invention of the written language. A boring topic but to make it more interesting he showed the first ever written joke in cuneiform from ancient Sumer. As I looked around I didn’t see a sleepy class. I saw everyone laughing along with the teacher. That class helped not only me but everyone else to see history as the story of humans, that we are the same as humans that lived five or ten thousand years ago.
Mr.K was an older teacher he was in his early seventies and he was very self-aware that stereotypes about old people and we would be in awe of how well normal kids could use technology, but he would always joke around when he needed a students help with the computer saying something along the lines of “ yea sure your good with computers but when I was a kid we were busy trying to make a still so we didn’t need to steal from our parents I didn’t have time to worry about early computers” This was the way he addressed younger generation knowing that they are better with technology. He had cancer many times at the time had cancer six different times or six different types, he never specified, but most would become bitter or depressed with a situation like that.That did not stop Mr.K he used it as a joke saying things such as “ I don’t think ill ever die mother nature has tried killing me off six times and I’m still alive.” no matter whatever bad happened there was a joke about it. I’m thankful for that sense of humor turning awkward sad moments happy. To turn a depressing topic like aging or death to something you kind of feel bad laughing about such dense and depressing topic.
There are many unforgettable moments that came from this one quirky strange teacher that taught one of the most boring classes in the history of high school. He transformed that one boring class into one of my favorite classes that I always looked forward too. He would always have little stunts to make it interesting to people. While learning about the thirty years war, Most in the class even with integrated jokes was still very dry so to make it more interesting He had two lines in the grass that are fifteen feet apart and he threw a bunch of ball on each side he then started giving a lecture and he said one side was the British and the other French and he told us that we are not in Vero Beach but A field in what is modern-day Germany. Since muskets were so inaccurate We had to throw with our non-dominant arm and it was one of the most fun classes in my whole school career.

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