I’m going to talk about my least favorite subject in each school year that I have been doing Ron Paul Curriculum (every year) and talk about why I disliked it. This should hopefully give you some good insight as to which courses you should try to avoid.
I don’t really remember what I did for grades 1 and 2, but I can say for sure that, in the beginning grades, reading was really hard and time consuming. Pages and pages and pages upon pages of worksheets, sight words, vocabulary AHHHHHHH. I don’t think I could ever go back.
In grade 3, reading was definitely my least favorite subject. It was just grade one and two but you have way, way more worksheets than before. It was also really time consuming Again, I don’t think I could go back.
In grade 4, I hated science. I did not like the insect portion, not because I’m afraid of insects, but because I did NOT like the collection parts where I’m supposed to make an insect collection. I received leave from my parents to skip the collection part, but that didn’t change the fact that that was my least favorite subject.
I hated my grade 5 math teacher. You couldn’t read his writing, his videos had audio issues, it was old content, and the problems were easy. I ended up testing out of that year of math and got half of a school year without math.
Luke Mullins was my 6th grade grammar teacher. Mr. Fish hired Mullins to teach half of 6th grade English. Luke Mullins had all the same issues as my 5th grade math teacher. The difference was that I couldn’t test out this time.
In 7th grade I hated science, mostly because of the fitness first aid parts of the course. I’m still doing the 12 week fitness program. In short, in all my past school years, there has been a single subject that stood out as the hardest and/or most frustrating one for each year. Here are my predictions for 8th grade: English will be a little hard but also very enjoyable. Math will be hard and a little frustrating, but not the kind of frustrating that makes me mad at my teacher. Science will have some outrageous projects as usual, and will probably be my least favorite again. History will be middle difficulty and just the same as every year. Nothing to complain about, but nothing to really like either.