Why do teachers give you the dumbest topics for essays ever?

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Seriously, it appears as if teachers intentionally choose dumb, boring topics for you to write your essay on so that you struggle in doing it. Why not have us write about anything? Is there some restriction in the teachers giving that as an assignment?
 

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[§am§on]

They probably don't intentionally do it, it's just that they don't care.

[Maxxi]

same
my teachers give us the most boring stuff

[sorrel]

perhaps the topic choice relates to current events/ what you will be learning about/ events in general to learn about?

[Count]

Cause the real world isn't all fun and games. They make you write about social issues or politics for a reason, to prep you for college/real life.

[PowerDag]

they give you topics that're difficult to write about so that you know how to write about difficult things

[ThatRandomGuy]

I once got a topic called "Why Germany Won WWII". nobody turned it in.

[Alyx Vance]

I once got a topic called "Why Germany Won WWII". nobody turned it in.

"Cause they got them guns mhm"

[ThatRandomGuy]

"Cause they got them guns mhm"

And dat Zyklon B

[sir dooble]

Trust me, choosing your own question can be a lot lot harder.

I have to complete Gobbets for my uni assignments, and all the instruction I have is being given either a picture/artefact/passage from some work.
Then I have to somehow write an essay about it, but not just describing it.

It's so much easier when you have a question that you can keep coming back to and focussing on.

[§am§on]

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[Jairo]

I once got a topic called "Why Germany Won WWII". nobody turned it in.

what a wasted opportunity to discuss alternate history

[SetGaming]

For the 8th grade curriculum at my old school, it was based around secrets and embarrassing moments that you experienced.

My first thought was: "What the heck?" This is middle school we're talking about, so having that happen would SUCK

also I'm sick of america turning kids into extroverts with extrovert based curriculum and self - brown townysis

[Maxwell.]

I once got a topic called "Why Germany Won WWII". nobody turned it in.

as in "could have won"/"what if it won" or did they think Germany actually won it

[ThatRandomGuy]

as in "could have won"/"what if it won" or did they think Germany actually won it

They thought Germany actually won. I guess my teacher was drunk or something when they made it the previous night.