Things they should teach you in school

[Night Fox]

Wasn't necessary

well it was
I'm not saying christians are dumb if that's what you think

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[Harm94]

that procrastination is ok no matter what your dumb christian parents say and also about homoloveuality and transgender stuff too

I'd rather let people decided that for themselves rather than indoctrinate people into thinking what is right and wrong when it comes to those two issues.

[Night Fox]

I'd rather let people decided that for themselves rather than indoctrinate people into thinking what is right and wrong when it comes to those two issues.

what? homoloveuality and trans stuff? I'm not saying anything about right or wrong. tell them the facts and then they can think whatever they want about it, it would be better than letting parents force ideas about something like that on their children

[Port]

I really wish they taught foreign languages in school. It's kinda stupid how you have to go to a specialized school for that country or take the course online.

~Thinker, thinking every day

Seems like they don't even teach English in America either, considering how bad most of you seem to be at it.

[devildogelite]

Signing checks
Signing legal documents

But that's about it

Not really. You do know a signature doesn't have to be in cursive, right? I can sign everything with a giant richard or a swastika and it'll be all cool. My signature is actually just a bunch of circles now.


Most ideas in this thread are awful, they should work on teaching critical thinking skills way more while you're in school.

[DiceyGrammar]

having worked in finance for a number of years now, they should teach more practical finances, ie, what happens when loans go wrong, what defaulting means, how credit history and credit reporting works, reading over financial contracts and understanding inclusions etc

seen so many 18-19 year olds doing stupid stuff like getting a 50k loan for a girlfriend (now ex), or kids who walk in to a dealership wanting to buy a 10k car and walk out with a 25k loan because of insurances

[Port]

Real programming languages, instead of whatever the forget we learned when I was in high school (Turing? What the hell is this stuff?)

Turing was extremely important, what are you on about?

EDIT: .. naming a programming language after Turing? Okay, that's just.. kinda dumb.

[joe411]

Computer code.
Better fcs classes.
Not limit social skills classes to special Ed students.

[Crispy_]

the 'common sense' class

[BluetoothBoy]

How to diagram a sentence. It's a very helpful grammar tool. Also, every school should have a street hockey team.

the 'common sense' class

Kinda defeats the purpose of the "common" in common sense.

[GhostStar]

they should have kung fu classes. knowing about the mongol empire isn't going to do stuff when your getting mugged in an ally.
oh and my school used to teach Russian but now they don't. i really want to learn Russian

[sir dooble]

Ancient Greek, man I love reading up about Athens, Sparta, Greece, Rome. Those were the days, sigh.

You should study Classical Civilisations.

Which is a subject I think schools should teach more.
Traditionally Classics is only taught here at a small scale in Primary schools (ages 5 to 11) as part of History.
Once you hit Secondary school (11-16) History is pretty much entirely about modern history (such as WWI/WWII) and Medieval history.

While relevant it misses out on a really fancy area of history. I loved History, particularly Classical history.
But I had to wait from Year 6 until College (Year 12) before I was ever taught anything Classical again, as part of my non-compulsory A Level class.

And with luck I will now be going on to study Classics full time at University come September.

[Parallax]

How to do taxes, how to pay off a speeding ticket, etc.
Ironic how schools try to teach kids everything they absolutely need to know for like 18 years and they forget those. Oh and there's college.

[plad101]

they didn't teach you about apostrophes either.

Nope not really

[Starzy]

You should study Classical Civilisations.

Which is a subject I think schools should teach more.
Traditionally Classics is only taught here at a small scale in Primary schools (ages 5 to 11) as part of History.
Once you hit Secondary school (11-16) History is pretty much entirely about modern history (such as WWI/WWII) and Medieval history.

While relevant it misses out on a really fancy area of history. I loved History, particularly Classical history.
But I had to wait from Year 6 until College (Year 12) before I was ever taught anything Classical again, as part of my non-compulsory A Level class.

And with luck I will now be going on to study Classics full time at University come September.

Though I am only 13 going to highschool, hopefully they teach it at highschool. :I, sounds interesting thanks i'll look into it.