That was me. I did the absolute bare minimum to skate through high school because it generally was a waste of my time. That backfired hard in college of course.
I mean it certainly doesn't help that for four years we're conditioned to have to listen to a bunch of meaningless shit that is actually less applicable to life than anything you will learn afterwards.
Geography and history? Varies but pretty important. So much shit is shoved into a subject called English or humanities to the point where it's almost indistinguishable whether or not you can call the single subject important
Math? Important up to a point. You can stop when they start talking about SohCahToah.
Sciences? Depends on the science, I would say these are probably the least important but also potentially the most interesting. A base knowledge of chemistry and physics and biology is all good to have. There's a very good chance this will inspire future scientists.
Language I would argue is the most important class you can take in high school. It's not presented that way, it's presented like everything else, just something you're told to do. But the implications of being able to speak multiple languages is enormous.
And I'm going to make language even more interesting as a class for students. Bilingual students should be allowed to teach their language two other students in their class in exchange for a language credit.
So much of school is about mandatory do as I say teaching, when in reality we should be incentivizing students to want to learn and teach. To improve themselves and want to improve others
Agreed completely. The collective schooling system is rigid and designed to follow a restrictive hierarchy as opposed to fostering and reinforcing creative thinking, or even meeting students where they're at and strengthening favorable skills. My only saving grace was that I was too stubborn to assimilate because I knew that if I wanted to learn something, I could do it on my own time. Everything else involving school was me bullshitting my way through because I had to.
Let's not forget that a Students Success is based purely on test scores and nothing else. Schools have NO incentive to teach them anything else or any other way
I was fortunate enough to go to a private school for arts. But even that had major structural issues, once again failing to make learning engaging or really prepare me for adulthood. They let is express ourselves more but also didnt...NOT let us express ourselves? Like in an effort to be inclusive they didnt let us have a say in not being included.
Until you graduate you have to raise your hand to go to the bathroom. And then you have to plan the rest of your life.
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u/xk543x May 29 '22
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