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[NEWS] Annoying Orange cutting budgets of public school programs by 6 billion, afterschool
Zloff:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on March 17, 2017, 10:24:17 AM ---and are probably a year or two behind on their mathematical skills.
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real talk for a minute here
as a software dev by trade and drafter by hobby, i rarely use any of the math i've learned throughout high school. maybe several times a year i use some wack geometry equation for a building or algebra equation in a scripted process, but nothing justifying the excessive math credits required of me in order to have graduated. honestly, i have grown to absolutely hate programming but have no idea what else i would do-- had all those math classes not wasted my time and taken up my class slots, i could have enrolled in various exploratory classes where i may have found what i really want to do with my life
but thanks to the government, the goal of public high schools is to prepare kids for college and not for real life. good statistics get you more funding, after all
IkeTheGeneric:
--- Quote from: Zloff on March 17, 2017, 10:53:13 AM ---real talk for a minute here
as a software dev by trade and drafter by hobby, i rarely use any of the math i've learned throughout high school. maybe several times a year i use some wack geometry equation for a building or algebra equation in a scripted process, but nothing justifying the excessive math credits required of me in order to have graduated. honestly, i have grown to absolutely hate programming but have no idea what else i would do-- had all those math classes not wasted my time and taken up my class slots, i could have enrolled in various exploratory classes where i may have found what i really want to do with my life
but thanks to the government, the goal of public high schools is to prepare kids for college and not for real life. good statistics get you more funding, after all
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The statement really was meant to be taken at face value. A lot of kids that are homeschooled that I know of are a year or two behind in their maths by the time they're in high-school level education. The most destructive thing that comes of this is the psychological toll it takes on the child, it makes them feel stupid, under-prepared and worthless.
mod-man:
i would wager to say homeschooling is a proper alternative, just not a proper permanent alternative
i can safely say being homeschooled for a year totally helped me out socially and academically in school. i left public school in 3rd grade because i didnt like people. i went as far as to tell my parents i was being bullied so they'd pull me out as fast as they could because i really didnt like public school. being homeschooled was amazing, but you do eventually miss people. once that happened and i was practically pretending i had other classmates at home, my parents suggested going back to public school and i was totally for it. i did get held back (which the school probably suggested, but that was 100% a choice by my parents. my mom felt like she didnt teach me well enough) but i thrived that year. i started making friends, i was getting great grades, and the rest of public school was pretty much a breeze after that (or at least as much of a breeze as public school can be)
not really sure if its relevant, but i saw a lot of people talking about how awful homeschooling is so thought id share how it benefited me
Corderlain:
I wonder if you all ever get tired of being the usual suspects in political threads? I miss when there was a hyper political thread maybe a few times a month. Now it's all there is.
Nonnel:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on March 17, 2017, 10:45:36 AM ---What classes did you take?
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not sociology, I can tell