Do you ever feel isolated in your interests vs. the mainstream popular content being pushed?

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[–]AnarchySpeach 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (15 children)

Idiocracy.

Oh god. The flashbacks to that movie. We're almost living it. The collapse of public education is leading us there.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (11 children)

The public education isnt failing, it is being subverted by egaltarian communist values.

[–]AnarchySpeach 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

History. English. Math. Science. Everything else in public schools should be an optional class incapable of damaging your grade.

There's no logical reason for a mandatory Pottery Class that could lower my grade based on the opinions of an "Art" teacher on whether or not they liked my artistic design.

History is barely taught in schools. I've learned more history from wikipedia than 10 years of school.

English is a joke. My high school was full of people who considered Dr. Seuss a literary genius because it lacked big words. You might think, oh, foreign exchange students must have been having trouble then. NO! The kids raised in other countries would show up with fluent English better than the natives, plus their own language. Somehow their English lessons are better than ours. What's even worse is that past middle school the teachers run out of stuff to teach, so the class turns into "Book appreciation class" where they spoon feed the class a few "School Approved" books to read out loud. That's how I found out half my class couldn't read. When the teacher picked a kid to read from the book and stuttered through it so hard I thought they were joking. Then comes the "Describe how the character felt" essays that the "teacher" would dock points at random. The damn multiple choice tests were even worse. "The the main character a)Mad b)Angry or c)Irritated" How the tf is useful?

Math class wasn't all that bad most of the time. The poor teachers I had honestly wanted to help. One of mine even took time out of class to explain how debit cards work. A classroom full of teenagers with debt and we never knew how bad it all was. Wasn't part of the textbook, but it should have been. Combined with being half asleep it's amazing anybody can pass that class. There's no reason why students need to get up that early for school.

Science was a coin flip. Sometimes you get a teacher who knows shit. Other times you get one without a spine that will never correct someone talking about magical crystals out of fear that doing so could result in them losing their job. To think, that for speaking about science, the thing they have multiple degrees in, and educating a student, what they are supposed to be paid to do, they could get fired. And we all sit back and let that happen.

Colleges overprice everything because there's no way to stop them.

Private schools are a double edged sword. 90% of them controlled by different religions who don't really care about education, only money and politics.

[–]BigFatRetard 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

One thing, i think metalworking, wood working, mechanics, sewing, cooking, and home budgeting should all be mandatory as well.

When I learned that some schools don't even have those classes but they are pushing to teach the 37 genders, it deeply saddens me.

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

While I agree with you that all of those are important, I think mechanics and farming would be the nost useful. The amount of people who can't change a tire is proof that knowledge of cars should be taught in public schools. Driving is basically a requirement in modern life. You have to go out of your way to avoid it. Even I had to bite the bullet and get a car. Why is it normal in our society to expect the parents to take time out of their day to teach a child how to drive? I've known people with two working parents. They didn't have time to teach them. If something is required to become a productive citizen it should be taught in schools. Tax money is going somewhere. Might as well get some use out of it.

Farming is another thing that gets overlooked. Not everybody is going to live in a big city. America still has lots of open land for sale. People can save a lot of money growing food in their backyard.

[–]BigFatRetard 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. While high minded pursuits like English lit are important, it's equally important to have at least a basic understanding of how the fundamentals behind our world work.

[–][deleted] 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Also writing and learning grammar, vocabulary, and language expressions is also very important although I assume that goes inside the english catagory correct? I also think we should be taught different kinds of politics and philosophy in school instead of the history classes. Also it would be important to teach them how their local, state, and federal governments work. Tbh most of history classes are just propaganda, the only thing they teach you about the KKK, Nazis, and Confederates in school that they were big meanie racists that killed millions for no reason. As for science honestly most things taught in science is kind of useless like theories about things that can never be proven. I think we should just drop tectonic plate, and evolution and creationism theory anyways. The only sciences that really matter are biology, anatomy, and the scientific experiments.

[–]AnarchySpeach 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

teach them how their local, state, and federal governments work.

A class about how government functions would be awesome, although I have serious doubts such a thing would be possible to do in an unbiased manner. First time someone's son or daughter comes home telling their parents how they have switched parties people will start raising hell. College can't even do it without picking a side. There would be boycott on public schools if it was tried at a younger target audience.

As for the science argument, I believe in anything that yields repeatable results. Earth is round. Gravity exists. The idea of evolution gets tossed around because the archaeological record of bones seem to indicate beneficial mutations are passed onto the next generation. There's no other way to currently explain it. It shows a possible solution to the mystery. There's enough facts stacked to support it that it's practically become a fact. My issue with the creationism theory is that it fails to ask any questions, answer any questions, and from a scientific standpoint anything that asks nothing and offers nothing is nothing.

biology, anatomy,

The amount of people who have no idea how their own bodies work on a rudimentary level is deeply disturbing. The sex education in schools a joke. It tells as little as possible to the point of being almost useless. Fuck equal baby. No shit. Why an adult feels the need to deprive their children of this valuable information is beyond me. At the very least an anatomy textbook should be given to public high schools. It might even decrease teen pregnancy numbers.

scientific experiments.

Weirdest thing about science class: Knowing the scientific method was never on a test at my school.

[–]BigFatRetard 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It wasn't until college that I realized that science and math are backwards: if the experiment gives different results than the math, then the math is wrong, not reality.

[–]Wrang1er 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

You are spreading conservative propaganda, stop.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why both conservatives and progressives parties are owned by jews pal. I would prefer to call myself a traditionalist rather than a cuckservative. Cuckservatives do nil at conserving anything and are more so the party that everyone votes when the progressives push their egaltarian one world one race agenda too hard. Even then in a few years cuckservatives will start adopting progressive values and being against the new agenda that progressives have whether it be adding pedophilia, necrophilia, and zoophiloa to lgbtqpipoc+. Sadly there are no popular traditionalist parties because non of them get funded by jews or corporations so they never see the spotlight.

[–]AnarchySpeach 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a lot worse that a few commies. lol

[–]Thugnificent 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

egaltarian communist values

This is like criticizing north korea for being a democratic republic lmao. Nothing neolibs believe is egalitarian or communist. Or "progressive". Words don't just mean whatever tf you want them too they have actual definitions lol. Straight up mentally retarded identity politics have no bearing on reality

[–]Riva 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Almost? The number 4 show today in Canada on Netflix is "the floor is lava."

"Ow my balls" starts next week?

[–]PencilPusher55[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I had to Google this and I thought you were kidding. I’m laughing in public like a maniac. It is honestly to the point of “ow! My balls”.

[–]Riva 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

we live in a crazy world. That seems to foreshadow the horrid future. In comedy form!