Who killed Mr. Boddy in the study and with what?: the great debate topic™®

[Maxwell.]

meanwhile you do not need chemistry when you want to be.. most things

art is even worse

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[Jubel]

meanwhile you do not need chemistry when you want to be.. most things

Most careers in trades, engineering, and even business require at the very least a highschool background in chemistry.

Why business I dont know, but I would need it apparently.

[KickFlow]

Dude, where you you put a cap to what is essential to know for a job? I think everything that is taught for maths right now is essential.

Some jobs like general knowledge above only being able to use a calculator for the most basic of equations, they like people who are at least capable of producing their own solutions to problems.

Not everyone is book smart. Not all jobs require much intelligence either. Physical labor. That's what I'm interested in and I've never been needed to use more than addition or subtraction for what length of rope I need. Even then it was rough estimating. In class I feel like I could be learning more about physical labor stuff or life lessons like mortgages, car insurance, taxes and stuff like that. However I'm learning math that I'll most likely never use.

[General]

You're not gonna be using maths at all in physical labour? Trust me, there are at least measurements involved there...

Besides, the current consensus is that kids should stay in school until they're old enough to be mentally capable to make a decision. Once you're old enough (16) you're free to leave.

[Nonnel]

art is even worse

wtf
art isn't required tho

[General]

I think it's good to have general awareness of your surroundings which is science

[KickFlow]

You're not gonna be using maths at all in physical labour? Trust me, there are at least measurements involved there...

Did you read what I said? Measurements haven't gone past what I learned in like 3rd grade yet and I worked maintainance all summer last year and doing it this summer too. I needed to make mixed gas for weed wackers and they just said "pour about this much" and it doesn't need measuring just eye balling. If it's something critical then yes we'd measure and we all know how but we could have done it without going to highschool.

[IkeTheGeneric]

You're not gonna be using maths at all in physical labour? Trust me, there are at least measurements involved there...

Besides the basic mathematical skills you learn early on, I doubt you're going to need trig to fill cement and plane boards

[General]

Besides the basic mathematical skills you learn early on, I doubt you're going to need trig to fill cement and plane boards

Ofc not, but general education comes in a package and pretty much everything in maths taught at a general level is very regularly used.

Also there's something called a foundation course in Britain that only teaches measurements, logical thinking and stuff. It would still look good to apply to a job in labour with at least a diploma at a foundation level.

[sir dooble]

Bear in mind you're going to school with thousands of other children.
Thousands of people who will eventually take a career any number of fields, from labourers, to waiters, caterers, hairdressers, businessmen, scientists, musicians, mathematicians, artists, actors, software developers, soldiers, lawyers, police officers, taxi drivers and more.

How many people really know what they want to do in life right now?
Or have always known every single thing they're good at.
If school curriculums excluded loads of subjects then so many people would never know that they had a passion for a certain thing, or were great at something, and they might never fill those roles.


When it comes down to it you get to choose the subjects you want when it matters. You get a little bit of choice in secondary school, more in high school, and even more at university.
But everyone needs a baseline to begin at.

[·::Kishgal::·]

Haha, yeah, totally, have fun being entirely dependent on Googling everything in your life.

[Jubel]

Haha, yeah, totally, have fun being entirely dependent on Googling everything in your life.

I bet he'll be googling his refute to this comment.

[IkeTheGeneric]

Ofc not, but general education comes in a package and pretty much everything in maths taught at a general level is very regularly used.

Most of the time, yeah. Pretty much everything I've been taught when it comes to math I have used at one point or another.

[KickFlow]

Ofc not, but general education comes in a package and pretty much everything in maths taught at a general level is very regularly used.

I haven't used any knowledge from school other than english last summer.

Haha, yeah, totally, have fun being entirely dependent on Googling everything in your life.

I'm not entirely dependent on googling everything though?

[Ipquarx]

School isn't just about developing theory smarts, it's also about developing street smarts. Relationship building, dating, exercising, eating healthy, even applied mathematics in high-school gives you actual practical purposes for everything you learn. That's why it's mandatory.