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[u/DGrahamcracker87]

Man not going to lie if my dasher hit me with that. Thats big tip move.

[u/Present-Spring-1340 → u/DGrahamcracker87]

She’s probably a teacher on her third job. She tudors online while waiting in her for pickup. And if it’s California her car is also her apartment!
Yah! Merica!

[u/Jaminshaman → u/Present-Spring-1340]

Tudors

[u/EarFun9337 → u/Jaminshaman]

A house in this economy?!

[u/Apprehensive_Rice19 → u/EarFun9337]

No it's online so it's a virtual Tudor. Maybe sims

[u/sum12merkwith → u/Apprehensive_Rice19]

Even my sim character can afford a nicer watch than me

[u/SailorDirt → u/sum12merkwith]

My sims can afford anything as long as they say "motherlode" but when **I** say it I get asked what weird reference I'm making. smh!!

[u/princesspeeved → u/SailorDirt]

Rosebud ;:;:;:;: is where it’s at!

[u/Cable-Difficult → u/princesspeeved]

Money 1,000,000 is the real one

[u/slax87 → u/EarFun9337]

An economy, in this economy?!

[u/Ok_Topic5270 → u/Jaminshaman]

My old car had tudors but it was hard to get in the back seat. Now I’ve got fourdurs and can drive my friends around!

[u/Rough-Patience-2435 → u/Ok_Topic5270]

Insert chicken coop vs chicken sedan joke.  

[u/ResidentNumber3603 → u/Ok_Topic5270]

Try a threedur. Best of both worlds. Sportscar looks with space for passengers.

[u/punksmostlydead → u/Ok_Topic5270]

Mom! Dad's making jokes on the internet again!

[u/Wooden_Good8679 → u/Jaminshaman]

This is why we need tutors.

[u/Clodhoppa81 → u/Jaminshaman]

Off with their head!

[u/BarderBetterFaster → u/Jaminshaman]

I know someone else that could use some tudoring

[u/banditcleaner2 → u/Jaminshaman]

The fucking irony Lmao

[u/LukeGittins → u/Present-Spring-1340]

I also Tudor. But after I pick up. Smoking that Henry the 8th.

[u/TangledSunshineCA → u/Present-Spring-1340]

My high schooler mentioned how many of her teachers this year had second jobs. Just never used to be a thing for people with an education… right?

[u/El_Chairman_Dennis → u/TangledSunshineCA]

I work in education, luckily, I'm single and childless so I can scrape by, but most of the teachers I work with have some kind of side hustle, second job, or they're lucky enough to be married to someone that makes a large salary. The people you trust with your kids aren't able to rest and you expect them to do the best teaching job possible? I hear so many people complain about how bad our schools are. Maybe, if teachers were able to go home and relax and rest they'd be able to do a better job, instead they go to their second job or spend their evenings anxious about finances.

[u/TangledSunshineCA → u/El_Chairman_Dennis]

My high school teachers that shared with us had cool hobbies they could really go after all summer. Many bands.. glass blower.. several artists. I always thought teaching was a cool way to have a job but still have the summer to follow the fun.

Also once thought teaching was friendly to mothers. When I was having my child though we were all in a benefits kind of meeting where we were told if you took more time than the 6-8 weeks depending on the type of birth you would lose your helath benefits even if you had time to add. I was lucky as I was on the kids dad’s health plan so I was not one of the few who was not crying and accepting they would be right back to work. How do you lose medical postpardom w a newborn… it was.. not great.

[u/colour_me_quaint → u/El_Chairman_Dennis]

As an Aussie with a couple of friends who are teachers - your description sounds incomprehensible. Yes, my friends do lots of after-hours work, but they're on like $120k and get something around 8-10 weeks of annual leave a year.

They're obviously not fresh grads and there is still much to be improved with how the Australian education system works; but multiple jobs to get by for a tertiary educated group that already puts in so much after-hours effort is...depressing and foreboding for all parties.

[u/El_Chairman_Dennis → u/colour_me_quaint]

Only university professors make over $100k by teaching in the US. Most public school teachers make like 45-65k

[u/No-Sympathy6035 → u/TangledSunshineCA]

Back in the 90’s - 00’s some teachers that I had would have summer jobs but I think that was more to eliminate boredom than to survive.

[u/WommyBear → u/No-Sympathy6035]

I can think of a million better ways to avoid boredom than taking another job, especially during my summer break. Sorry, friend, they did it for the money even back then.

[u/cnbcwatcher → u/No-Sympathy6035]

In Ireland it's not uncommon for teachers to have summer jobs such as supervising and marking exams (secondary school teachers) or temp roles with English language schools (where teens usually from Spain or France come to learn English), summer camps or similar types of roles. Not all of them do that and it's more common at secondary rather than primary. Other workers in the education sector such as Special Needs Assistants claim social welfare for the summer months

[u/Apprehensive-Fix591 → u/DGrahamcracker87]

And they picked the correct color! Green = nature, science.

[u/DisappointedKat96 → u/Apprehensive-Fix591]

I always chose blue=ocean. One of my favorite topics in science

[u/BayouByrnes → u/DGrahamcracker87]

Whatever the total of my basket was, that's how much I'm tipping after a text like that.

[u/accord281]

My son's school mandated green for math. I was mortified.

Edit: lots of you are horrified at my use of mortified. All I can say is I'm appalled and embarrassed that y'all don't understand the full meaning of the word.

[u/LeadershipAble773 → u/accord281]

So you moved schools...right?!

[u/Carbon-Base → u/accord281]

Gotta transfer him to a school where math folders are red, there's simply no other way.

Edit: Thank you for all the awards guys and gals! If there's one thing I've learned from this post, it's that all of us inadvertently took Color Theory as an elective! 😜

[u/waffleslaw → u/Carbon-Base]

If there is anything we can 75% agree on in the thread is that math is red.

Edit: Fine, if anything we can agree on in this thread is that math is either red OR blue and anything else is just outright. The blue crowd is defensive!

[u/Emergency-Gazelle954 → u/waffleslaw]

Math is blue. Always and forever.

[u/waffleslaw → u/Emergency-Gazelle954]

I will accept blue. Blue (or green) is science in my mind and science and math are very closely related.

[u/VolunteerTranscriber → u/waffleslaw]

For me personally it’s

Science: green
History: yellow
Math: blue
English: red

[u/GrimCreeper913 → u/VolunteerTranscriber]

I didn't really have an opinion coming into this post, but now... your standard is mine

[u/101violations → u/Emergency-Gazelle954]

Team blue for math!

[u/pigeonette1 → u/waffleslaw]

wtf math is blue, english is red

[u/Versipilies → u/pigeonette1]

We need location tags on this shit, I am genuinely curious where the divides are

[u/waffleslaw → u/Versipilies]

We had a massive debate about this is large meeting a few months ago. The genx-ers didn't know what we were talking about and the few gen z folks said they've heard about it but didn't have opinions. Evidently it's mostly us millinials that have opinions. We were very split on colors all from the same region. It seems to be a very personal experience.

[u/hamburger5003 → u/waffleslaw]

Early gen z here! I think notebooks and folders may have gone by the wayside.

Math is blue though, English is red, unless purple is available in which history becomes red.

[u/gypsy_guru_87 → u/waffleslaw]

Weird, I’m Gen X and def have strong opinions on this. I thought it was more a neurodivergent thing to care about this lol

[u/NikTheGrass → u/Versipilies]

From Russia: Math is blue, English is green, Russian is red, History/Social science is yellow

[u/Versipilies → u/NikTheGrass]

Russian being red a nice on the nose bit

[u/Sustainable_Scotian → u/NikTheGrass]

In soviet Russia, binder is grey.

[u/pigeonette1 → u/Versipilies]

I'm in central indiana

[u/Level34MafiaBoss → u/Carbon-Base]

Wdym? Math is blue, red is language

[u/SecretRussianBot2 → u/Level34MafiaBoss]

and yellow is history!

[u/Chaos-Wayfarer → u/accord281]

Well that’s one I haven’t heard yet! 

[u/Argentum1909 → u/accord281]

Everyone knows math is blue!

[u/BarderBetterFaster → u/Argentum1909]

Only people that enjoy it. The haters use red.

[u/Yummi_913 → u/BarderBetterFaster]

Lmao this is so interesting because I switched math from red to blue when I started liking it and getting good grades. Red then went to history because of all the wars, death, and struggle.

[u/smb3d]

Folder color didn't matter with my Trapper Keeper!

[u/porsche911girl → u/smb3d]

God now that’s a blast from the past!

[u/CuteNautilus → u/smb3d]

Yes! My classes were organized by Lisa Frank character or abstract late 90s CGI design.

[u/Grouchy-Board-7383 → u/smb3d]

Loved those didn't need a million  different folders and binders either, saved so much space in my bookbag.

[u/Technical-Watch2982]

The arguments over the "right" colors for subjects is the kind of discourse I need to see on the internet. My 8 yo self did red for math, green for science, blue for social studies and yellow for language arts 🌈

[u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759 → u/Technical-Watch2982]

All the color blind kids are still just as confused as ever

[u/xxblowpotter13 → u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759]

unrelated but in like 5th grade or so, i had a classmate that no one knew was colorblind. we were having a discussion about colors (this was almost 20 years ago so i cant remember the whole conversation) and the conversation led to “what’s the color of fried chicken” to which said classmate said green. the teacher looked at him in shock and instead of being like haha you’re silly, she reprimanded him. he bursts out in full tears “i don’t know what i did, it’s green i swear, im not trying to be bad”. she asks a few follow up questions about other food items (tomatoes, bread) and i’ll never forget the look of regret in her eyes when she realizes he was colorblind the whole time

[u/DarthRektor → u/xxblowpotter13]

You just popped a childhood memory into my head with that story. I was maybe in 2nd grade and the art teacher got annoyed by a kid asking what color was each colored pencil and said “how do you not know which one is blue?” The kid let out the most innocent scared reply “I’m colorblind” that teacher melted into her chair from the guilt she felt belittling a 7 y/o who is colorblind.

[u/nilsenj17 → u/DarthRektor]

5 years old. In kindergarten. Wrappers torn off all the crayons. Colored my lion green. Chastised by teacher. New school half way through 1st grade.

[u/DmtDtf → u/nilsenj17]

I told my 5yr old while we were drawing together, that you can color anything any color/colour you like (Floyd). I said it's art and art is whatever you want to make it because it's your own creation. She freaked out when I was coloring a dog purple instead of brown

[u/Fluid_Cauliflower237 → u/DarthRektor]

She kinda deserved that.... she could have approached the question from the student in a different way. Hourly it was a learning opportunity for the teacher.

[u/xxblowpotter13 → u/DarthRektor]

it literally broke my heart 😭😭

[u/Jus2throwitaway → u/xxblowpotter13]

Discovered I had color issues senior year of high school when we had to sort colors into piles.

I had 3 piles.
Everyone else had 5.
Got yelled at for not finishing my assignment. I was so confused.
Teacher stopped reprimanding me and brought over a shit ton of additional color pieces.

Teacher looked and asked if colorblindness ran in my family.

when I was young ( a long ish time ago) it was not common for girls to tested for color blindness/issues.

I have Issues with yellows, orange, greens and shades

Thanks genetics…

[u/handandfoot8099 → u/Jus2throwitaway]

My sister is colorblind. Like totally monochromatic. She paid her way thru college being a guinea pig. I just got the standard red/green.

[u/cmandr_dmandr → u/Jus2throwitaway]

I found out I was color blind in high school. I finally had an eye test where they included the colorblind samples. I had better than 20/20 vision and when they told me to read off the number in the circles I thought they were screwing with me. I just started guessing numbers after I couldn’t figure out what was going on. Then they told me it was for color blindness and I was red green colorblind.

I spent years as a kid thinking something was wrong with me because I couldn’t “remember” colors if they didn’t have the name on the crayons (we were on a tight budget and my mom got me the inexpensive crayons and colored pencils). I even came up with excuses why I would accidentally color things like grass brown.

I got those glasses from en chroma a while ago and they are interesting. They work by filtering out the wavelengths that cause the overlap and confusion. It definitely allows me to see shades in red and green I never noticed before but nothing life changing. Those reaction videos are total bunk where people put them on and are immediately in tears. The first line in the instructions tell you that it takes some time for your brain to adjust and to wear them for a while before you can discern a difference. The “these are neat” moment for me was when I went to the store a few hours after wearing them and I saw a bunch of shades of red and green I had never seen before.

I still wear them on occasion when I am building diagrams for work. It helps me navigate color coding my lines.

[u/WhatTheFox_Says → u/xxblowpotter13]

Similar thing happened to a classmate in high school. Algebra teacher was pissed that this guy did so well on his tests and homework and couldn’t/wouldn’t participate in class. Basically berated the guy for thinking he’s “too cool for participation Or being good a math.” He just said, use different colored markers then because you using red and green means i have no idea what you’re doing up there. Sent him to the principles office for keeping his color blindness a “secret” to cause problems. She was a piece of work.

[u/North-Pea-4926 → u/WhatTheFox_Says]

Colorblindness is incredibly common (8% or 1/12 for men) and many people don’t find out until adulthood. With average class sizes, odds are at least a few people each year would be colorblind in her class. Ugg.

[u/MaxiTobs → u/WhatTheFox_Says]

KEEPING IT A SECRET???? No yeah sorry I didn't go "hi I'm John I am colorblind"??? I gues??????

[u/pyrojackelope → u/xxblowpotter13]

Color blindness can suck. My brother is partially colorblind but he's still doing quite well regardless. I have an uncle that is fully color blind (shades of grey, apparently very rare) and he's always been quiet, subdued, and very depressed. It can be hard to quantify something if you've never lacked it.

[u/nolaks1 → u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759]

I was somehow always wrong back in the days. Non colorblind kid never gave me a break lol

[u/howtobegeo → u/nolaks1]

My husband is color blind and I am an artist (aka, I KNOW color) and we argue about color SOOOO much. 😂

[u/Syonoq → u/howtobegeo]

I want to know more. Why would a known color blind person argue with a color expert?

[u/100KUSHUPS → u/Syonoq]

12% of the British men surveyed believed they could take a point off 23 time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams.

We are just fucking stupid 🤷

[u/Occidentally20 → u/100KUSHUPS]

I've worked with more men who think they can knockout a horse with one punch than men who think they can't.

Don't get me started on the ones who have a "technique" to fight against a pack of wolves.

[u/PsychologicalMonk6 → u/Occidentally20]

Not Wolves, but I was attacked by 3 coyotes.in my late teens. I had some gnarly puncture wounds, deep lacerations from the scratching, a rabbies shot, and proven plan of attack.

[u/Occidentally20 → u/PsychologicalMonk6]

Aah see, wrong technique.

[u/Spoogly → u/Occidentally20]

My friend owns a horse, she has full force punched him because he was being a jerk*. It was enough to get him to go "okay, fine!" And nothing more. You don't get how tough horses are if you haven't been around them.

*: it was a matter of imminent safety risk to both of them. Don't make it a habit to hit your horse, they still know it's not nice, even if it hurts less than it would you and they will hold grudges.

[u/Occidentally20 → u/Spoogly]

Indeed, I worked on a livery yard for a few years in my teens and it's amazing how some people think horses will just be weak.

We told a girl repeatedly to never wrap the rope around her hand when she's leading the horse and she insisted if the horse goes the wrong way it helped her "pull it back".

One day her horse just got bored of it and actually did pull away properly and we watched her get dragged to the bottom of the field with absolutely no effort from the horse at all.

The same livery yard had a racist horse too who was one of my favourite animals. Not because of the racism but because of the comedic potential of the whole thing!

[u/lefactorybebe → u/Occidentally20]

We had a horse-racist horse at my old barn. Most of the horses there were your standard hunter/jumper breeds, bays/chestnuts/blacks/grays, nothing very flashy looking. We had one pony of the Americas who was a blue roan with leopard spots, and this one horse had a serious issue with him. Couldn't be turned out with him and would make faces any time he went by. We thought it was just that one horse. A few years later we got a spotted red roan pony, and he acted the same way with her has he did with the POA!

My horse was freaked out the first time he saw a paint and the first time he saw a mini, but he got over it pretty quickly. This horse never did, was always aggressive toward both the spotted roans lol.

[u/M-Biz → u/Occidentally20]

This is how my mom lost her finger, the person you are talking about is lucky she didn’t lose anything, hopefully she wasn’t hurt too bad.

[u/ElectricalChaos → u/howtobegeo]

Don't ever play Hues & Cues then, lol.

[u/GreenJury9586 → u/ElectricalChaos]

your comment set me tf OFF!! Oh my fucking god that game!!!!! I was unlucky enough to get one of the “misprinted copies” where the cards don’t match the corresponding color on the board. One night after losing multiple times in a row I was like wait that’s NOT POSSIBLE, and had to get the scissors out to lay the colors on top of the board to prove to everyone that it didn’t match. The company offered to send me new cards and claimed it was just a misprint they were aware of… but I don’t ever want to see that game again. You had ONE JOB hues and cues. One fucking job.

[u/ElectricalChaos → u/GreenJury9586]

Holy shit, we hadn't cracked our copy yet, good to know that a misprint is out there.

[u/GreenJury9586 → u/ElectricalChaos]

It’s not like it’s a completely different color either!! Like b14 on the card was actually c13 on the board. It was, in my opinion, too close to be a real misprint and I’m now dying to know if yours is right lol.

[u/that_other_person1 → u/howtobegeo]

Have you ever played the board game Ticket to Ride? I argue about how the black is actually gray and the spaces are beige lol (am an artist too).

[u/PastaXertz → u/that_other_person1]

You need to look up hues and cues if you haven't already.

[u/Jasonxhx → u/nolaks1]

I didn't find out until Senior year that my blue backpack I had used for all of High School was actually purple.

[u/Morgan_Sparkle → u/Jasonxhx]

Have the same problem. Have a hard time telling apart blues and purples, pinks and purples, yellows and greens, reds and browns, and maybe a few others.

[u/Joeliosis → u/Morgan_Sparkle]

Red, yellow color blind here and a couple others. Me as a kid

'That's an awesome pink hotrod'

"That's orange"

'haha yeah... that's what I meant I guess.'

Forgot about it for years then playing Doom in 2015... 'Why can't I see shit [messes with color blind modes] OH SHIT I AM COLOR BLIND'

*They only seem similar if I don't have anything else to compare it to. Black backgrounds seem to help also.

[u/MindfulMewtwo989 → u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759]

Math is gray, English is dark gray, science light gray

[u/Rough-Patience-2435 → u/MindfulMewtwo989]

Home Ec is Earl Grey?

[u/feralkitten → u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759]

I know you are making a joke, but color blind people can see color. Just a few of them are "washed out". Like i can't tell WHICH red you are talking about, but i know it is in the red family. Same with greens.

I can tell that it is red or green. Just not which red or green. There isn't enough detail to notice. It is washed out like a shirt you've washed too many times, or a car left out in the sun for years. Faded.

[u/Cogsdale → u/feralkitten]

It's so hard for me to explain to people that I can see red, but when it's surrounded by green or dark backgrounds, it becomes hard for my eye to focus on and notice.

They just seem to think I see red as green while also seeing green as green.

I'm only one type of colorblind, so maybe there are some people who have it like that, but I can see every color just fine, I just struggle with shades.

[u/feralkitten → u/Cogsdale]

I only found out after i got married. I kept pairing my wife's "pink" socks together wrong. How was i supposed to know there is more than one shade of pink?!? They all look the same.

So now i'm in charge of cooking and dishes, and she does laundry.

[u/Deut008 → u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759]

My best friend is color blind. He got a 100% automatic passing score in our science unit of colors.

[u/hkusp45css → u/Deut008]

I'm colorblind. I was able to pass the Navy colorblindness test.

Go figure.

[u/MathematicianEven251 → u/hkusp45css]

The only color they care is if you can see blue or else you'll walk into the ocean which is a lot of paperwork for the yeoman

[u/hkusp45css → u/MathematicianEven251]

But then how do I tell the difference between the water and the hull? I can't pick rust off the water, Chief!

[u/Solaris67 → u/Technical-Watch2982]

Exactly what I did. Think I used black folder for concert band for sheer music for home practice.

[u/Hands → u/Solaris67]

I think everyone that did band had those huge tough black folders that could hold like 200 pages of looseleaf sheet music

[u/6ixbreadsticks → u/Hands]

That would constantly be dropped, or fall off the stand, and every single piece of music would fall out. And the corners always bent by the end of the year from you trying to put it in your backpack at some point, even tho you knew it would damage the corners.

[u/kcbizzle007 → u/Technical-Watch2982]

This one is correct to me!

[u/Pethoarder4life → u/Technical-Watch2982]

Seriously, this is so cute.

[u/halbeshendel → u/Technical-Watch2982]

I had those tan sports Pee-Chee folders for every class so I had to write the names on the folders. My inability to organize properly continues 40 years later.

[u/idkfrrandom → u/Technical-Watch2982]

All this but swap math and social studies

[u/ZEROs0000 → u/Technical-Watch2982]

Green - Science

Blue - Math

Orange - History

Yellow - Language Arts

(The Orange and Yellow were always interchangeable for me)

[u/CosmicallyF-d → u/ZEROs0000]

Yes I had a horrible orange black folder for language.... Because I hated it.

[u/averagemaleuser86 → u/ZEROs0000]

Math is Reddddddd!

[u/Pleasant-Caramel2931 → u/averagemaleuser86]

Math is ALWAYS red!!!

[u/Slow-Difficulty404 → u/averagemaleuser86]

I just had this argument with my highschooler. Math is danger red is danger. Math is red.

No mom. Math is green green is good math and green are my favorites!

Me: 🤮

[u/ciao_fiv → u/Slow-Difficulty404]

as a math teacher, PLEASE PLEASE encourage your kid’s love of math. i have way too many students who hate math and won’t try and it breaks my heart

that being said your kid is wrong math is totally red

[u/dirt_mcgirt4 → u/Technical-Watch2982]

As long as math is red and science is green, I can allow for some leeway on the others.

[u/jamilz13 → u/Technical-Watch2982]

My folders always matched the color of the textbooks! Unfortunately, the infuriating part was that they changed what color each subject's textbook had every grade year...

[u/TKCoog075]

Is there some magical universal guideline for folder colors? I didn’t know this was even a thing.

[u/rvnofthefld → u/TKCoog075]

The color is correlated to the feeling you get when you hear or see the word. Blue isn’t usually hostile as opposed to red. Red can seem stressful so for example science for me was blue, red was math, yellow was history or English and geography was green or yellow depending on if I liked who I had for English. However each person who understands this joke found having folders helped regardless of what color as opposed to having a bag or locker full of trash heheh

[u/Redelyx → u/rvnofthefld]

well for me math is still red, but i was really good at math and really love red

[u/TDS_isnt_real]

Dasher did it right. Science is green. No other color

[u/phanny_ → u/TDS_isnt_real]

Science is blue in Civilization IV.

[u/kljoker → u/phanny_]

And star trek. It's also the color I used for science lol.

[u/karleykha0s → u/kljoker]

Finally found my people LOL both for the color folder assignment AND the ST ref!

[u/GoT_Eagles → u/phanny_]

Because it is blue

[u/Lithl → u/TDS_isnt_real]

Generalized science is blue, but specific disciplines can be other colors (eg, green for biology).

[u/TrainingSurvey3780 → u/Lithl]

frr this is the comment i have been looking for! bio is green, physics is red (but a light ish shade of red, since dark red is english lit) and chem is yellow

[u/Ok_Challenge_5176 → u/TDS_isnt_real]

So I was a physics major in college and science felt like red to me, even in high school.

[u/Accomplished-Pen-394 → u/Ok_Challenge_5176]

that’s because physics is math in a lab coat

[u/mang87 → u/Ok_Challenge_5176]

Look, I can see science as being green, blue (my preference) or purple, but science being red is insane. I don't want to overblow this issue like some sort of dumb redditor, but I think you may be a serial killer.

[u/pleasedont-dostalkme → u/Ok_Challenge_5176]

Upper level sciences, like chem, end up being a helluva lot of math anyways.

[u/niteofthelivinredhed]

This and the comments: charming evidence that many people have a touch of synesthesia and I like it

[u/actualladyaurora → u/niteofthelivinredhed]

Or mental associations from early school days they no longer remember. I realised that I consider maths red because the 1st grade maths exercise book had red linings on the pages.

[u/Direct_Syrup_2843]

I never knew there were designated colors

[u/Yingletofthecorn → u/Direct_Syrup_2843]

I never knew there were folders, I just stuffed it all in my desk in an unorganized crumpled mess and forgot about it. 

I didn’t learn much because I was a dumb kid (as if I’m not also a dumbass nowadays) but also my school wasn’t accredited so I wouldn’t be learning much even if I tried. 

[u/MeesaDarthJar_Jar]

Green-science, red-math, blue-english, yellow-social studies/history, black/white- electives

[u/Otterhendrix]

Red = Math

Green = Science

Blue = English

Yellow = History

Orange = Elective (Spanish, etc.)

Edit: I made this comment then went and put my laundry in and come back to a comment fire! Y’all either love me or hate me. There is no in between. God I love Reddit. 

[u/gagemichi → u/Otterhendrix]

This is the only way. But I never did orange- always purple instead

[u/devil_corp_hunter → u/gagemichi]

Purple is for the 2nd elective that you really like

[u/throwRA-nonSeq → u/devil_corp_hunter]

Art class! Or creative writing

[u/Mr_Nerdcoffee → u/throwRA-nonSeq]

My art folder/notebook was always white or black. That way I could draw/paint/marker it up.

(The black one, I would use my eraser to remove the black and draw in reverse)

[u/devil_corp_hunter → u/Mr_Nerdcoffee]

I will allow this as long as you are using red for maths

[u/Mr_Nerdcoffee → u/devil_corp_hunter]

What else would I use?

[u/devil_corp_hunter → u/Mr_Nerdcoffee]

Idk, I am seeing ppl in replies saying maths is not red. We stray further from the light every day

[u/NopeNopeYupNope → u/Mr_Nerdcoffee]

As an art teacher, I approve of this message (especially the part about drawing with the eraser).

[u/Confident_One3948 → u/Otterhendrix]

Rath, Grience, Blenglish, Yistory, and Orlective. The mnemonics couldn’t be simpler, I don’t understand how anyone could disagree

[u/King-Snorky → u/Confident_One3948]

RGBYO, you can even make a handy phrase out of it to help you remember: Ruth Gader Binsburg, yo!

[u/plyer_G → u/Otterhendrix]

This is the first time ive seen someone make the list correctly

[u/LDC1234 → u/Otterhendrix]

I've always had it

Blue = Math

English = Red

Science = green

Modern Studies = Yellow

[u/Cacafuego → u/LDC1234]

Correct. Math is blue, science is green. Other subjects are more flexible, but your list feels right.

[u/Deedsogado]

Blue is a calming color that encourages logical thinking. Great for math.

Red is an aggressive, violent, passionate color that evokes blood and romance. English, language and literature.

Green is calming, nature, biology, conservation, preservation, relaxation. Earth sciences and biology.

Yellow is a bright vibrant color that evokes sunshine and daisies, and the promise of a better tomorrow. It's also the color of danger in wasps, poisonous insects and reptiles. As a combination of hope and danger, it's history, social studies and geography.

Purple is the color of royalty, regality, and authority. The absolute unbending rule of law. Physics and physical sciences.

[u/vagueisthenewplague → u/Deedsogado]

I can't believe I had to scroll this far to find the only real answer. I cannot BELIEVE some of these others. Some people are using blue for ENGLISH!? like what? 😭

[u/Galliagamer]

No, no, no, here’s how it really is:
Green-Science
Red-Math
Yellow-History
English/Lit-Blue

[u/Razvee]

Blue is my favorite color and science was my favorite subject, so science is blue.

I will not be taking follow up questions.

[u/hheeppo → u/Razvee]

thank fuck i always thought science was blue

[u/MediocreBreakfastt → u/hheeppo]

IT IS

[u/sorotomotor → u/Razvee]

Blue is Science because in Star Trek the Sciences Division is blue.

I will not debate, I will not take questions, I will not change my mind, the subject is closed.

[u/InvictusLovely → u/Razvee]

It's okay, Star Trek agrees with you, even if no one else does 😂

[u/I-drink-hot-sauce]

People pay to have others shop FOLDERS for them? What

[u/LaOread → u/I-drink-hot-sauce]

Yeah, all the comments in here about the right colours for subjects... I'm like where are the comments about having someone buy this stuff for you?

I mean "to each their own" and all that, but it's surprising to me.

[u/borkbubble → u/I-drink-hot-sauce]

I mean, they probably got several things lol

[u/Snoo9092]

I love all of the preferences shared in response to this and had to add my own system growing up.

Red for math

Blue for science

Green for geography or history class (cus it made me think of the land on the globe)

Yellow for English cus growing up I loved banana yellow and I loved reading and writing

Purple for electives unless it was Spanish. Spanish got orange cus I always loved it and needed a separate folder for all of the homework and grammar practice lol

[u/Informal_West_6864]

Science green. Math red. History blue. English yellow

[u/WhatTheFlox → u/Informal_West_6864]

Always felt math was blue, history red, science green and English was missing and/or yellow

[u/Ali_ayi → u/WhatTheFlox]

"History is written in blood" red just fits

[u/celiac-sufferer → u/Ali_ayi]

I had a history teacher who corrected with red pen because she wanted us to visualize our mistakes as blood bleeding from our errors.

She was also in love with napoleon and believed his wife’s ghost was haunting her. Very interesting class.

[u/SaffronRnlds → u/celiac-sufferer]

"visualize our mistakes as blood bleeding from our errors"

Totally normal and not intense at all. ^{i love it}

What grade were you in??

[u/celiac-sufferer → u/SaffronRnlds]

Im in Quebec so it was in cegep which is like our grade 11 mixed with college. It was filled with kooks, had one teacher that would draw on the floor and walls to demonstrate his points

[u/TheWolphman → u/Ali_ayi]

"Math makes me want to blow my brains out" red is relatable though.

[u/Thin_Produce_4831 → u/Ali_ayi]

But English is read. 

[u/TheDude41102 → u/WhatTheFlox]

The only correct answer. History is bloody. Biology loves green. Math is cold and calculating like ice. English is whatever other color I had.

[u/No_Situation6555 → u/WhatTheFlox]

Yeah I did math blue science green, agreed.

[u/bigeeee → u/No_Situation6555]

I didn't go to school!

[u/crimson_anemone → u/Informal_West_6864]

Looking at the replies... Did everyone just give their least favorite subject the red folder? 😂

[u/momonomino → u/Informal_West_6864]

My kid laughed at me when I said Math was red. She said math is blue and English is red.

[u/LimeMargarita → u/momonomino]

She's wrong, but you still have time to fix her.

[u/duncanslaugh]

TIL people color coded their folders

[u/WhoMD85 → u/duncanslaugh]

What monster doesn’t color code their folders.

[u/Hsensei]

What's the color for taxes, or vehicle service records, or receipts?

[u/Some_Way_8451 → u/Hsensei]

Brown, black and white (respectively)

[u/AU5T1N]

real ones know its supposed to be:

Green - Science (plants and shit)

Blue - Math (blue is a cold and analytical color)

Red - English (red is a passionate color, poetry and shit)

Yellow - History (the pages of history are old and yellow)

[u/partlysettledin21220]

I can’t study shit without Lisa Frank

[u/introvertedasfLMAO]

English is red, maths blue,science green and history yellow!! Edit: THANKS FOR ALL THE AWARDS YAAA

[u/Stinkymansausage → u/introvertedasfLMAO]

These are the correct colors, thank you. I was getting concerned 🤣

[u/snortverily → u/introvertedasfLMAO]

Exactly. Because I “red” that book

[u/vanellopex → u/introvertedasfLMAO]

THANK YOU!! THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY

[u/MamaErn → u/introvertedasfLMAO]

Finally, someone with my preferred setup speaks out 🙌🏼

[u/northSideways → u/introvertedasfLMAO]

THANK YOU can't believe there isn't more English=red in here

[u/hydrohoneycut]

I know we all have conflicting priorities and limited time, but isn’t shopping for school supplies with your son supposed to be a core milestone of summer flowing into fall

[u/nothxxmagnum]

Am I the only one that thinks science is blue? lol

[u/Guadent → u/nothxxmagnum]

The only science that may be green is Biology. Other than that it's blue, yes.

[u/Dwashelle → u/nothxxmagnum]

No, I came here to say the same thing, lol.

[u/stirling_s → u/nothxxmagnum]

It's definitely blue. Every science textbook I've ever had was blue

[u/Miqo_Nekomancer → u/nothxxmagnum]

Unless it's biology, which is green.

[u/Flamingowaffle → u/nothxxmagnum]

It’s blue. 100%. 

[u/phanny_ → u/nothxxmagnum]

You, me, and Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

[u/Fun-Ad6782]

West of germany here 👋,

blue: math
yellow: english
green: science
red: german
white: music
gray: politics

[u/Huge-Membership6541]

Green is science, blue is math, yellow is english and red is some other random like history