Author Topic: 10th grade+ required classes are useless  (Read 2620 times)

Nonsensical Proverbs by Menen

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Wahhhh High School is so worthless I'm so smart.

School is not only to teach you math or whatever but quite a few other things. For example, it teaches critical thinking, time management, and math and sciences should teach you how to apply what you learn. If you just richard around and drift through all of school, college comes as quite a surprise as I learned the hard way.

Pretty much anything can be looked up on the internet, it doesn't mean some high school kid is going to want to learn about the constitution on their own.

Preschool is stuffs and giggles
Elementary School is basics
Middle School is requirements
High School prepares you for college
College teaches you about what you like

Nonsensical Proverbs by Menen
it makes plenty of sense actually. your inability to understand what he said doesn't constitute an error on his part.

Middle School is requirements
i'm actually inclined to disagree with you. the only important course in middle school is math. everything else is reiterated in high school or is just useless anyway.

School is a general teaching base, it is meant to teach scientists, engineers, farmers, social workers, builders, ect. The reason it does this is because in a crCIA, it is expected that people be able to fill these sorts of roles. After high school you can branch into any kind of specialty you want, but you will use something you learned. For example, a coder would use math he has learned to write a code that works while a photographer would use knowledge of historical art to influence his work.

it makes plenty of sense actually. your inability to understand what he said doesn't constitute an error on his part.
I remember in middleschool, everyone was required to take a class that was sort of similar to what he's describing. Teaching you how to 'learn'. Within 2 weeks we figured out that it was basically just a free-hour to do absolutely nothing, and for the rest of the year we called it 'blow-off hour'.

Most of my classes seem useful honestly.

Honors English 9, Honors U.S. History, Honors Biology, Honors Algebra II, German II

Past the 6th grade Wikipedia has been my teacher, woo for 48th worst education in the US

my school quit teaching people how to spell at 4th grade, now there's a lot of people who cant spell worth stuff their freshman year :/

I could just be the only one thinking this, but in my opinion most required classes for 10th grade and up are completely useless. Education needs to keep up with technology. If you want to find something out you can just look it up online, there's no use in requiring it to be learned in highschool grades. If you're thinking "Well where is the information online supposed to come from", well, if you want to be a math guy or chemist or whatever then you should be required to take these classes. Then you go to college and become an expert and then people who choose to will put up the information and online calculators in the Internet.

These required classes should be replaced with classes that help you move forward in your career choice. Not useless information that has nothing to do with what you want to be when you grow up.

What is the forums' thoughts?
The point of high school is to start thinking about your career choice, not to specialize in it. That's what college is for.
You realize that classes don't just teach their title at face value, right? For example, science teaches how to use logic to follow through with ideas, and how to break down and examine things. Not only that, but it helps expand your vocabulary, and helps you learn how to break down words into central components and figure out what they mean.
And that's just ONE class.
Don't try to be so edgy - and be open-minded - because your career choice may be something quite different than you predict.

This is coming from a tenth grader.

Preschool is stuffs and giggles
Elementary School is basics
Middle School is requirements
High School prepares you for college
College teaches you about what you like

Preschool - stuffs and giggles
Elementary school - basics
Middle School - stuffs and giggles
High school - loads of work
College - getting a job that isn't at McDonalds.

Preschool - stuffs and giggles
Elementary school - basics
Middle School - stuffs and giggles
High school - loads of work
College - getting a job that isn't at McDonalds.
Preschool - learn some alphabets and numbers
Elementary School - Learn some alphabets and numbers and some science that won't help you
Middle School - Learn some English, Math, History, Science that wont help you. Also have stupid 1 week relationships and learn swear words
High School - Learn more English, Language, Math, History, Science, Extra stuff that you like/are forced to take That you might use in the future
College - Getting knowledge to a degree (lol?) that will help you live the rest of your life.

this entire thread is a good example of why they're not useless  :cookieMonster:

my school quit teaching people how to spell at 4th grade, now there's a lot of people who cant spell worth stuff their freshman year :/
my old school quit teaching altogether

i hear people at my old school now use leaves and twigs to write

yknow you don't have to go to college to get a job you love and can live off, guys >.<