color correspondences of school subjects

weather: ☀️ hot pavement, hot hot hot critters: ants back to school shopping season and i noticed folks seem to have strong opinions on what color corresponds to what school subject. here are mine from my solid color notebook days1 english/literature: 🟡 yellow, to perk up the drear of the readings we were so often assigned. but i guess happy people and happy events are pretty boring to read about history/social studies: 🟣 purple, because these subjects were my favorite and my favorite color is purple. i also thought i was being clever and visually referencing phoenician murex dye. is there anything more fucking annoying than a child who reads science: 🔵 blue was for boys and science was for boys (so ran my childthoughts) so science went in the blue notebook. now i know better, of course, but think of any mad scientist character. what color is his shirt? that's right, blue. nobody correct me on this. i do not want to hear counterexamples elective: 🟢 i was a bad child and never got to…