People Debate Which Color Folder Correlates To Which Subjects in School

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Aug 16, 2022 1:00 PM EDT

When you're in high school, you have very little freedom. One of the few choices you can make for yourself is which trapper keeper you get from Staples. This is a critical decision, as that multiuse binder won't break for at least three years, so you better make the right choice. 

The question of "which binder color should I choose for which subject" was never one that phased me. I simply picked the binders with the prettiest colors and chose which subjects they were for based on vibes. However, not everybody makes this decision lightly. Some individuals are still being kept up at night with the question of whether green=science and yellow=history.

Historian @jackiantonovich felt very passionate about this topic, having heated arguments about it with her family. She went to Twitter to ask, "You're back in high school; what folder colors do you assign your classes? The subjects are Math, Science, English, and History. The colors are blue, red, yellow, and green. Ready, go." Her followers were eager to debate the matter.

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    Font - Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich My family is currently in a HEATED argument. Help me out. You're back in high school, what folder colors do you assign your classes? The subjects are: Math, Science, English, and History. The colors are blue, red, yellow, and green. Ready, go.
    via Twitter: @jackiantonovich
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    Product - Dana Schwartz @DanaSchwartzzz Replying to @jackiantonovich math is red. english is blue. science is green. history is yellow.
    via Twitter: @DanaSchwartzzz
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    Font - Ashley Nicole Black @ashleyn1cole Replying to @DanaSchwartzzz and @jackiantonovich This has always been the right answer. I can't believe people are even questioning this.
    via Twitter: @ashleyn1cole
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    Jaw - Doug Priest, PhD @dougpriestphd Replying to @jackiantonovich Math is blue. Science is green. English is yellow. History is red.
    via Twitter: @dougpriestphd
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    Font - Clare Conroy @missconroy Replying to @dougpriestphd and @jackiantonovich Definitely. Everyone saying History is yellow - no, it's too bright, can only be English in this scenario. History is dark and bloody. Math is chill, no emotion blue. Science is green cause nature.
    via Twitter: @missconroy
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    Font - NotABot @NotABot7238 Replying to @jackiantonovich Red math because that is the worst and hardest. Yellow - Science because that is the second worst and hardest Green history because it's easier than math and science - Blue - English because that's the happiest of the classes
    via Twitter: @NotABot7238
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    Font - Michelle J. Rozovics @RozoRuminations Replying to @NotABot7238 and @jackiantonovich You subscribe to a Traffic Light theory of folders. Red means "Stop!. No!" (Most hated subject). Yellow is "Warning, Will Rogers! Warning! Warning!" (Be careful w/subject). Green is "GO! GO! Inspector Gadget!" And Blue is free & happy like the open sky - no traffic lights at all.
    via Twitter: @RozoRuminations
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    Font - Jennifer Manganello @healthcommphd Replying to @jackiantonovich We just did this for my son and he was adamant about that colors. English is yellow math is red social studies blue and science green.
    via Twitter: @healthcommphd
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    Font - Juliepalooza @Juliepalooza1 Replying to @jackiantonovich Did y'all have that thing where you had to cover all your textbooks with grocery bag paper? And there was a trick to folding it right that I guess we all learned from upper classmen? And then you could write ALL OVER THEM?
    via Twitter: @Juliepalooza1
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    Font - John Drolte @JohnDrolte Replying to @jackiantonovich First of all, you're missing the most important color choice: black. Once we have that it's easy to see that the correct choice is that all subjects are black. Your shirt is black. Your jeans are black. Your bookbag is black. Because it's 2003 and I'm an emo in high school.
    via Twitter: @JohnDrolte
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    Product - Daryn Glassbrook @DGlassbrook Replying to @jackiantonovich Yellow is History Blue is Geography Green is Science Brown is Arts & Literature Orange is Sports & Leisure Pink is Entertainment There is no Math.
    via Twitter: @DGlassbrook
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    Organism - Kelsey Halfen @HalfenDHS Replying to @jackiantonovich The only correct options :
    via Twitter: @HalfenDHS
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    Font - feeno @ArianFoster math - red feels logical, math is logic science - sky/ocean, science is blue english - i picture some dude writing poems under a tree in a pasture. green ... history - i think of ancient egypt, rome, mesopotamia, obviously yellow i'm oddly beholden to these answers
    via Twitter: @ArianFoster
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    Font - victoria @dirtbagqueer ... dump all papers indiscriminately into backpack. never study. do homework during the class period it is due. get As Jacqueline Antonovich @jackianto.... 16h My family is currently in a HEATED argument. Help me out. You're back in high school, what folder colors do you assign your classes? The subjects are: Math, Science, English, and History. The colors are blue, red, yellow, and... Show this thread
    via Twitter: @dirtbagqueer
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    Font - Patricia Arquette @PattyArquette Replying to @jackiantonovich The person who is in high school chooses.
    via Twitter: @PattyArquette
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    Font - This is the right answer. Of course, when I was in high school there was only one color of folder: Pee Chie
    via Twitter: @abytw
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    Smile - Marshmellymel @marshmellymel Replying to @jackiantonovich I keep them separate in my Shaun Cassidy Trapper Keeper. Cause he was my boyfriend when I was eleven.
    via Twitter: @marshmellymel
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    Font - Kevin Bruyneel (he/him) @kbruyneel Replying to @jackiantonovich I just read "you're back in high school" and blacked out after that.
    via Twitter: @kbruyneel

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