School Subjects and Colors

STORY BY HANNAH BROWN »
Back during our elementary school days, every class was assigned a color. This was in an attempt to teach our young minds to organize things. Color coding is a form of organization many high schoolers still use
when it comes to school.

“I don’t do it on purpose,” Alexis Connor Jr.,
said. “It just seems natural for me to color code folders
and notebooks.”
During elementary school, many classes had
consistent colors, while others changed over the years.

“For me,” said Sophomore Skylar Hartley, “I associate certain colors with math and science, because all the other classes’ colors seemed to change a lot.”
“Yellow has always been math, and blue has
always been science,” Hartley recalls. Connor agrees
with Hartley for the most part, “I’ve always associated
warmer tones with math and science and cooler tones
with classes like English,” Conner said.

Unlike Hartley, Connor does not base her organization on what she learned in elementary school.Instead, she bases her color associations off of what she
personally feels she needs.
“In math, I feel like I really need
brighter, warmer colors to cheer me
up,” Connor said.
For the most part, nearly all
EHS students agree that math is a
warmer color.
“Math is red, math has always been red,” said Nyah Coleman, Sr. When she heard that some students thought of math as yellow.

Nyah agreed reluctantly that she could see why people
would associate that color with math as well.
Strangely, it seems the majority of EHS math
teachers associate math with cooler colors. EHS math

teacher Scott Keltner stated that he would usually associate blue or green with the subject, despite the different opinions of his students.
Overall, we can see that the organization we
were taught in elementary school did seem to have
lasting effects on some of us. Color coding is something
a lot of students continue to utilize and it seems many
still associate the colors they used during elementary
school.
Some EHS students, however, don’t color code
their classes at all. Freshman Isaiah L’Ecuyler stated
that he’s never really organized his classes by color
coding them.
“I do associate English with yellow, but that’s just what I’ve always
known,” L’Ecuyler said.