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 -  (3 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.