What Color is Each Subject?
When students buy school supplies for the year, every subject is a different color to help differentiate which binder or folder is which. Normally, elementary school teachers choose the colors for their students' folders in a supply list. The colors that the teachers chose for each subject stick with students when they go to middle school and high school, creating this divide.
What colors are the subjects? This question has sparked up one of the most controversial arguments in history.
Kayla: An opinion is a person’s perspective on a certain topic or idea. I’m a strong believer that everyone has a right to their own opinions because there is never a right or a wrong. But when it comes to what color the subjects are, there is a right and there is a wrong opinion and if you are wrong you do not have the right to your own opinion.
Science is green. What other color could it be? It’s not like you are going to go to Chemistry and be like “Wait hold on, let me take out my pink binder,”. It does not make sense to make science any other color. Take Earth Science and Biology for example, plants are green so it would make sense for science to be green. The same goes for Chemistry but with chemicals, when I think about chemicals I think green. I feel that most people agree with this but at the same time, I know that there are people out there that will argue that Science is yellow or pink. For those who oppose science being green I want to know what color you think it is and a good argument as to why.
English is yellow or black. My elementary school teachers always made my English yellow and it just stuck with me. Also, I feel that English is the only subject that fits yellow. English is light, bright, creative, and open-minded and that is what I associate the color yellow with. But this year my English binder is black. When I think about the color black, I think professional, serious, and business-like and English has a professional and serious side to it as well. I feel like these two colors are the only two colors that really truly fit English, but I understand if you associate English with another color that is not blue, green, or red.
Math is blue. When I was in elementary school every year my math folders would switch between blue and red and I know it was the same for a lot of other people. But in sixth grade, I made my final decision that math is blue. Everything in math has an order in which we do it such as solving equations, word problems, PEMDAS, or just simply counting. When I think of the color blue I think of order and structure, which fits math. Also, the blues that are on folders and binders aren’t bright, they are darker. I associate bright colors with chaos and creativity, and I associate dark colors with order and more seriousness. This is why I can not see red as math because red is very bright and bold and math is not either of those things.
Social Studies is red. As I was saying before, red is a very bright and bold color and I associate brightness with creativity and chaos. Social Studies is very chaotic. Just think about what we learn in Social Studies, we learn about wars, violent battles, mistakes that were made in governments, and all of these things are very chaotic like red. Also, when I think about battles and war, I think red because of the violence that comes with it. I just can’t see blue or really any other color as Social Studies because no other color matches the content that we learn in it.
Foreign Language is purple. I feel that foreign languages could be any color other than blue, red, green, and yellow, but I chose my foreign language folders to be purple. Foreign language is just the leftover color that isn’t used.
Yoselin: I am a strong believer that Math is blue and only blue, history however could be either Red or Blue, but mainly red is the answer. Some might say the same could be said about math in terms of options, however, red reminds me of an ancient map with stains on it and not of ¼ (2x4)+8/2. The reason I’m saying history could be blue is because it could represent the ocean on a globe, but let's be honest, most blue folders one could buy are a DARK blue and not a celeste-ocean type blue.
Green is OBVIOUSLY green because it makes me think of dangerous green chemicals and trees. The ONLY reason I would think that science would be a different color is that if
You’re in high school and don’t care about the color of the folders because you’re just trying to pass
OR
2. You’re one of those people that have a color scheme such as grey-teal and white. I feel like white would be the only acceptable thing to make science, but even then I hope you get put in jail.
English is where there is a little wiggle room as I believe that they could either be Yellow, Purple, or black. You can’t completely choose to choose some other color like red. See, I think black would be a better choice because I think of dark, sad, and depressing stories and I get how some English major will go and say, “Well Edgar Allen Po used red to symbolize death” but honestly I think of red more as a violent enraging death, not some twin corpses pulling up to the mansion and dying right there and then. Also, again when I think of red I choose history because of the bloodshed there is in war and English really is more where you could unleash your creativity which is why yellow, purple blacks, and even white are permitted onto the property of subjects.
Finally, if we are counting foreign languages, then I have to state that it doesn’t matter. I'm not saying that the subject is bad and that I don’t care about them, in fact, I really enjoy foreign languages, however, it's really debatable what language you’re taking. For example, I’m taking Italian and the colors of the flag are green, white, and red. Green is out of the question because that will forever be science and science only. It could be white depending on if you chose that color already and honestly Italian COULD be red had it not already been occupied by History. On the other hand, you have Spanish. The colors of the Spanish flag are red and yellow. The yellow folders provided in stores are a bright almost highlighter lille yellow which seems extremely off to have if you intend on making the folder based on the flag. I might be biased because when I think of the Spanish language I think of many tropical or culturally filled countries due to the language being spoken in many languages
Both Kayla and Yoselin's arguments are great but that STILL doesn’t answer the question! What color is each subject? According to the Science Survey, 54.2% say math is blue/ 41% say English is red while 25.8% say it’s History. And of course, 78.5% say science is green. But do we here at the Mass Media studio believe that? No, which is why we are here to fix those numbers.