People Break Down The Most Ridiculous Things They Ever Had To Memorize For School

​"My sixth-grade teacher..."

"My sixth-grade teacher taught us a trick to always remember the difference between desert and dessert. The extra 's' is because you always want more dessert.

It's just always stuck with me."

darksidebandit

I never heard of this, but that's actually brilliant. Don't think I need it, however. I'm a good speller!

"Kings..."

"Kings - Kingdom

Play - Phylum

Chess - Class

On - Order

Fine - Family

Gold - Genus

Stools - Species"

DarkAsDarkestNight

"Has anyone..."

"The Pledge of Allegiance. Has anyone recited it outside of school?"

musical_dragon_cat

No, thankfully.

And hopefully never again.

"I was given..."

"My alphabet backward. I was given a magnetic alphabet board and taught the letters but no one told me we read left to right. So I learned my alphabet backward first."

darrevan

"Also..."

"The "old Indian chief" SOH-CAH-TOA. Also, the South American countries and their capitals as presented on a CD in a rhythmic beat by a nasal Spanish speaker."

oldatheart515

I wish I understood why this was neccesary.

"I had..."

"I had a math teacher who made a lot of drug jokes. His acronym for SOH-CAH-TOA was "Some old hippie caught another hippie tripping on acid."

NewAlt_

"In Idaho..."

"In Idaho, all school kids learn the counties by song in 4th grade.

I still knew it when I was 15 and taking driver's Ed.

I know it now at 35.

Plus side? I know where everyone is from just due to their license plates."

AngeDeNeige

You must be fun at dinner parties.

"The song..."

"The song we sang in our first year of English class years ago. It went something like this:

Yellow and red makes orange

Yellow and blue makes green

Red and blue makes purple

Yellow and white make... .. Cream?"

TheWelshTiger

"We had to learn..."

"The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou. We had to learn all the capitals of every country around the globe and our teacher said that you will forget many of them but you will remember the capital of Burkina Faso and somehow that worked."

tadhgcarden

Somehow it did. And now I need to go to YouTube so I can learn how to pronounce it.

"I dreamed..."

"Caracas, Venezuela…. Bogota, Columbia…Quito, Ecuador…. I dreamed that damn song in High School."

Wookiebarto

After reading these, all I can think is... why? Just why?

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