CLASS ACTION

Four stars remember their school days.

BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL

Joshua Hoffman (R.J.)

What is your earliest school memory?

“My first memory of school was when I was in kindergarten in Santa Monica and I remember being nervous to talk to a girl in the playground.”

Would you describe yourself as a good student? “Yes, I was a very good student. I’d say I was very intelligent and I’d pick up information very quickly. But I also was very rebellious. I would want to talk and I’d end up in the hallway all the time, but I also would get straight A’s. So no teacher could figure out what I was doing.”

What subjects would you say came naturally to you and which did you struggle with? “Mathematics and English, I absolutely loved. And what I struggled with was history. And languages.”

Did you have a favorite teacher in high school? “I did. His name is Joe Bradley, and funny enough he taught science, one of my most difficult subjects to do other than history. He understood that at 6:50 in the morning, I was not ready to learn pretty much anything, ever. So he’d start us off by going outside and we’d ground ourselves on the grass with our bare feet and then we’d learn science. That was the only way I was gonna make it through that class. That man was a genius.”

Were you involved in any extracurricular activities? “Definitely. I played baseball my whole life and through high school. I was in the art club, as well, even though I never took an art class.”

Were you a good test-taker? “I was. At first I was very nervous, and then as time went on, I got good at being the last one out of the room instead of the first one out of the room.”