"Don't Stay in School"

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

i never said that i wasn't a hardheaded numbskull
i loving know that i am but this stuff that i'm trying to pass isn't working for some reason
and back to this:lol they forgetin aren'ti'm telling you that i got lost in the sea of links that was this stuffstain of a design choice and the lack of direct information on the site doesn't help

the skills required to operate a website are taught in schools. if your point is that schools don't teach that, you've failed. if your point is that there is no way for people who didn't go to school to do that, you've failed. if your point is that you can't navigate a website, you've definitely succeeded.

100% agree with his message, so much.

I was never taught anything actually important in school, not even how to manage a budget or be able to actually live in the real world. Bullcrap like trigonometry was deemed more important.

This is really what our school/education system in the US needs to be revised around, IMO. School's supposed to teach you what you need to live in the real world, but instead all you're taught is 99% useless abstracts.

school teaches you how to get/perform basic jobs. that's why many jobs require at least a high school diploma. math, and by extension thinking and problem solving skills, are very important for such jobs.

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[Planr]

school teaches you how to get/perform basic jobs. that's why many jobs require at least a high school diploma. math, and by extension thinking and problem solving skills, are very important for such jobs.

this is what it's SUPPOSED to do, but it doesn't. nobody i know was ever taught practical skills in school, like how to get a job or how to budget, or what the dozens of different money-related things like IRA's, 401k's, pensions, commissions, or interest rates are.

[ßlöükfáce]

why do people say math is useless. it helped me build up problem solving skills with whatever math problems
and with my geometry class, the basic object was to practice reasoning by making proofs about geometric things and explaining why things are true, such as a SAS or opposite angles theorems

[SeventhSandwich]

this is what it's SUPPOSED to do, but it doesn't. nobody i know was ever taught practical skills in school, like how to get a job or how to budget.

They never told you how to budget?

In other words, they never told you how to add up your income, estimate your expenses, and subtract them from your income?

You went through high school without ever being taught addition and subtraction?

[Daswiruch]

debating to me is an addiction
i can't close this goddamn tab

school teaches you how to get/perform basic jobs. that's why many jobs require at least a high school diploma. math, and by extension thinking and problem solving skills, are very important for such jobs.

schools teach you to remember information to put on a test and forget about it later
that's it
i've bullstuffted my way through every math class and social studies-esque class, just barely scraping by and i don't remember anything of it
no, seriously. go ahead and ask me what the pythagorean theorem is

They never told you how to budget?

In other words, they never told you how to add up your income, estimate your expenses, and subtract them from your income?

You went through high school without ever being taught addition and subtraction?

ok now this i can actually agree on

[Planr]

They never told you how to budget?

In other words, they never told you how to add up your income, estimate your expenses, and subtract them from your income?

Nope. We were never taught how to do that in high school.

You went through high school without ever being taught addition and subtraction?

[ßlöükfáce]

Nope. We were never taught how to do that in high school.

weird. i had a whole project once about how i'd be able to keep track of expenses if i get paid a certain salary and live on my own
(funfact, one of the kids in the class claimed that he could live off $50 a year on groceries)

[McJob]

i've bullstuffted my way

You call it that, but that's every student's favourite word for simply answering questions to the best of their ability. It's "bullstuff" because it seems too easy.

[SeventhSandwich]

Nope. We were never taught how to do that in high school.

But it's literally just addition, subtraction, and multiplication. I can't even fathom how you would fill an entire-year course just teaching people how to put their daily expenses into a list and multiply by 30.

[Daswiruch]

You call it that, but that's every student's favourite word for simply answering questions to the best of their ability. It's "bullstuff" because it seems too easy.

it seemed so easy because i was forced to review for days on end by my teachers all just to drop it from my mind the second i walked out of the classroom

[Planr]

But it's literally just addition, subtraction, and multiplication. I can't even fathom how you would fill an entire-year course just teaching people how to put their daily expenses into a list and multiply by 30.

You make it sound so easy.

[Foxscotch]

all just to drop it from my mind the second i walked out of the classroom

uh
who are you trying to blame for that? cus that is 100% your problem

[SeventhSandwich]

You make it sound so easy.

Because it is? With modern technology you can even cut out the 'multiply by 30' part. We truly live in a new age.

[Daswiruch]

uh
who are you trying to blame for that? cus that is 100% your problem

i guess it's a mental thing because i don't do it consciously
for some reason, my brain only deems things worthy of remembering as the things that are fun/things i actually, actively want to know*
i've got no other explanation for it, sorry

*which is why i can remember the names of over 150 pokemon and what they look like but can't remember the fifty states

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

schools teach you to remember information to put on a test and forget about it later
that's it
i've bullstuffted my way through every math class and social studies-esque class, just barely scraping by and i don't remember anything of it

the actual answers to the math questions are far less important than the actual skills you learn by studying and remembering the theorems and formulas. and if you can't be assed to learn your history then there's nothing anyone can do for you.

it seemed so easy because i was forced to review for days on end by my teachers all just to drop it from my mind the second i walked out of the classroom

thats completely your fault if you don't care enough to remember what you're taught.

i guess it's a mental thing because i don't do it consciously
for some reason, my brain only deems things worthy of remembering as the things that are fun/things i actually, actively want to know
i've got no other explanation for it, sorry

unless you need to be taking meds for your condition, that's just you not taking it serious. school is for learning, your point that we're teaching the wrong things is completely nonsensical if you can't be bothered to learn the things that are being taught now.