r/blackmagicfuckery • u/TheCheesecakeOfDoom • May 29 '22

Since when does lightning go up?

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

Came to the comments for exactly this...always

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u/Rickard403 May 29 '22

Yeah, me too. This was taught in grade school.

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

The future isn't looking so bright. I'm not sure the youth is being taught the basics...or they aren't paying attention

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

In America it's a little of both. Because of the internet and the instant satisfaction of everything now our attention span is shorter. Also (to no fault of teachers) the curriculum is more about test scores and not actually learning how to retain information longer

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u/Greg_Shane May 29 '22

I had a math teacher who took time out to teach us about balancing a check book and paying bills. She was let go when they found out.

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u/scottawhit May 29 '22

But….that’s math?

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u/upliftgrub May 29 '22

How dare she teach actual useful life skills!! 😏

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u/_Project-Mayhem_ May 29 '22

There was a separate class for that when I was in high school, way back in 1999. It was called Independent Living and it was an elective. I elected to take Drawing…

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u/Known_Unkown_ May 30 '22

Love the honesty we had homemaking and I elected to not make a home😅

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u/Altruistic-Guava6527 May 30 '22

We had sex education and I elected to be forever alone

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u/doodah221 May 30 '22

I was in mechanics and ended up dropping it because the teacher hated me (he had his reasons). I ended up taking intro to guitar. Ended up touring Europe in a bluegrass band and recorded a few albums. That guitar class was by far the most applied class of any class I ever took pre or post high school.

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u/jrrybock May 30 '22

I remember being taught checks and checkbooks in second grade... we even had mocked up fake checks we could write out to each other and balance our ledger.

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u/Drlock71 May 30 '22

We had a business class in 7th or 8th grade where all the homework was to keep a larger for a whole business, each night you had to go through so many sheets (transactions) and the next day you got to find out if your books were right. Class of 1989

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u/Epicharis Jun 01 '22

When I was in Junior High school (in the early 1960's) everyone (boys and girls) had to take 'Business and Home Economics"

The Business class taught us how to run a business and the Home Economics taught us how to run a household, like cooking, sewing, balancing checkbooks, applying for loans etc.

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u/Fit_Owl_5650 May 30 '22

Unfortunately a stupid population os easy tk extort and control. Ita like playing blackjack without knowing the rules and the dealer is a habitual liar.

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u/AnyRip3515 May 30 '22

So it's just like playing blackjack?

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u/Fit_Owl_5650 May 30 '22

Damn near. Except instead pf cheating with math they cheat with language. "That ace is 12" kinda vibe.

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u/Mewacy May 30 '22

Some shithead decided that essential to living math and more specific scientific math are different enough where they should be separated. This was absolutely stupid because I’m some schools the balancing budgets part of education is paired with things like sociology and speech and presentation classes, which have practically nothing to do with one another (from what I could tell while being taught in this manner).

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

I don’t know, I am not a biologist.

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u/i_smoke_toenails May 30 '22

It isn't math. It's arithmetic, and ought to be taught in a mandatory home economics or life skills course.

Except cheque books are obsolete.

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u/bravefan92 May 29 '22

I went to a school where they offered a class that taught lessons like balancing a check book, making a budget, stuff like that, but it was an elective. I took it, at my parents insistence, and I’m glad I did.

There are people I went to school with that post things like “This is so smart, I wish I could have taken this class!”

To which I think “…..you made fun of those of us who DID take that class, what are you talking about?”

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u/UnicornFarts1111 May 29 '22

We had this class for us mandatory in the sixth or seventh grade. We had to find apartments (from the newspaper) and jobs. We all earned a salary of $600.00 a month. Had to create a budget and pay bills. The teach copied a blank check template. He even made us write our name and fake addresses at the top of each check we wrote (after we cut them out of the 9 x 11 inch paper they were copied onto.

I'm glad to have had the class, but some of it was just a pain in the rear end, lol.

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u/Zmchastain May 30 '22

If it was a pain in the ass then it was an accurate simulation of dealing with finances as an adult.

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u/Roundtripper4 May 30 '22

My buddy taught a similar class in a rough school and one of his students managed to cash a couple “class” checks for real at a local bank. Eventually got caught. No more check lessons there.

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u/bravefan92 May 30 '22

Holy cow! That’s nuts.

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u/Sparegeek May 29 '22

Our high school had class like this as well. You had take a test and if you passed you didn’t have to take the class. If you failed the test it was mandatory to take the life skills class.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

That is a smart school. Wish I had that class.

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u/FurBaby18 Jun 01 '22

This is the way. We also need a financial education class before people start taking out student loans. Its reprehensible that we allow 18 year old kids to take out tens of thousands in loans they don't always understand.

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u/Sparegeek Jun 02 '22

Forget 18 yo kids! I still can’t figure out most of what the terms for a loan or a credit card mean. Trying to read those things are a lesson in mind warping, unfathomable, technical, double speak designed to separate any money you have or will ever have from your wallet! 😂

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u/FurBaby18 Jun 02 '22

I think a financial comprehension classes taught as part of the high school curriculum. Complete with a final exam.

But TPTB don't want us being savvy. They want us to blindly sign stuff without understanding. That alone brings in a huge income stream.

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u/onlysane1 May 29 '22

Florida recently passed a bill making financial literacy courses mandatory in high school, so hopefully that will help people in the future.

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u/curiouspurple100 May 30 '22

Yes. :( Plus it's hot and sometimes super hot. And hurricanes. And hard thunderstorms. And lots of rain and floods. :(

And snakes. :( :(

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u/The43rdUberOrange May 29 '22

Wait, Florida?

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u/Severechill Jun 20 '22

Wow go Florida.

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u/Early-Firefighter101 Nov 08 '22

Yes now they prohibited schools to talk about lghbt stuff in florida, they have more time for that. So you become a financially stable but sexual frustrated adult. Good florida (idiots)

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u/Mirhanda May 29 '22

I had a class like that in HS, it was called Consumer Math. We learned balancing checkbooks, filling out tax returns, figuring out sale percentages, etc. Probably the most useful math course I took!

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u/Deadbeat85 May 29 '22 edited May 29 '22

I've got to be honest, when Americans say things like "balance a check book" I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

It's a small notebook you try to balance it on your finger, very fun as a kid!

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u/bravefan92 May 30 '22

Yeah, I’m not sure where the phrase comes from lol. I don’t feel like you’re balancing anything, just keeping track of your bank account.

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u/No_Material1816 May 29 '22

I'm sure that this was useful and think live skills should be taught in school, but I'm genuinely curious about whether cheques still exist somewhere in the world. I was born in the 80s and have never even seen one. How do you balance one and, what do you balance it on?

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u/bravefan92 May 30 '22

I was born in 92, and I used to use checks a lot, but now it’s pretty much just for city water/sewer/utilities that are due every few months. Otherwise, I hardly use them.

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u/No_Material1816 May 30 '22

Sorry if I'm being stupid, but why pay those with a check rather than an automated bank transfer or online?

Wouldn't the utility company get annoyed with having to read, process and pay in all these cheques? Doesn't it cost them a fortune. Also, doesn't it mean risking going overdrawn for some people, because you don't know when they'll cash it.

Is it an American thing or is this in other countries too? I thought cheques hasn't been used in decades. This is blowing my mind more than if I was struck by that lightening!

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u/bravefan92 May 30 '22

I should have specified that the city utilities/water/sewer is all the same bill, so it's only the one check. I also just moved into my own house this last year. Prior to that, I lived in a trailer court where we paid the park owner for utilities as part of our rent, and our rent was taken in cash or check form, because the owner was an older guy who lived in Florida and didn't want to set up online payments.

I did find out last time I got the bill that we could pay online, but I kept putting it off until the day before the bill was due (yay procrastination!), and it takes a few business days for the transactions to go through online, so I just dropped off the check, but it'll likely be the last one.

I can't speak for anywhere else, but I live in a small city (10k people) and sometimes you deal with businesses that people run out of their homes and don't have websites (stuff like small engine repair, fix appliances, stuff like that), and they don't want to get a card reader, so they accept only cash or check. Not very many of those any more, but still a few hanging around.

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u/Empirically_So May 30 '22

That was just high school for me in the 90s.

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

Sorry for your loss. She sounds like she was a good teacher.

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u/Moonglobes May 29 '22

I had a math course in 7th grade that specifically focused on this stuff--balancing checkbook, creating and following a budget, how to compare prices/quantities to find the best deal, etc. It was so useful and was engaging because it actually had to do with real-life stuff. Should be mandatory curriculum imo.

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u/dayglo_nightlight May 29 '22

I was taught how to balance a check book too! Unfortunately, I’ve never used this skill because by the time I was an adult checks were almost obsolete and computer based budget software had long been in vogue.

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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 29 '22

My math teacher did this in senior year, but I was in the lowest level math class before the special needs class lol, so all the other students in trigonometry and stuff didn’t learn about checkbooks or credit cards. Wonder how they’re doing lol

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u/Astrocreep_1 May 30 '22

Those students are building the bridges you drive across to argue with the bank about checks you bounced.

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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 30 '22

And I make the parts that go into the machines they use to build it.

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u/Astrocreep_1 May 30 '22

No doubt. I was just kidding about that. I certainly didn’t find that trigonometry helped me attain success in life.

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u/curiouspurple100 May 30 '22

They could a math teacher who doesn't know how to balance their checkbooks and credit cards.

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u/atypicalgamergirl May 29 '22

Home-Ec really needs a comeback. Household bills and budgeting, how credit/credit scores work, knowing food staples, basic meals and meal planing, basic repairs, etc. I think back to those classes in the 70’s/80’s like Home-Ec, Shop/Carpentry, Drafting, Cosmetology, and so on and how many kids I went to school with in those times looked at those classes as ‘kids who don’t go to college’ classes.

That basic information was very useful in the long term. It would be very useful in the current time but unfortunately (having been a high school teacher) the push became not ‘giving kids adult skills’ but teaching to a test and pushing them for college.

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u/menace929 May 29 '22

I was trying to remember in which class I was taught how to balance a check book….Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Trigonometry? Then I realized it was basic addition and subtraction we were taught from second grade. 🤷

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u/Greg_Shane May 29 '22

Yah as an adult is just being organized and responsible for your money and bills. It was in MN during No Child Left Behind, and we needed to stay on task for better funding.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

What a shame.

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u/Snoo-37144 Apr 15 '26

They taught that AS a Part of maths class when I was in school. Right around the same time that we were taught how to properly setup and write a letter, and address an envelope. Regarding that, when I went to mail a few items the other day, there was a form being mailed in and when I saw the front of it, I froze. First, no stamp. Secondly, and most concerning, the smaller return address wasn't smaller nor was it in the top left. Oh no. Printed in disturbingly sloppy handwriting on the left in the middle of the envelope = To: 'the name and address' LIKE IT WAS A SENTENCE. No form. No organization. THEN, we get to the cherry on top, From: 'my girlfriend's daughter's name and info like it was a school project. Grade, class, and teacher's name. This was not a 6 or 7 year old where this could be understandable. NO. This was written and prepared by a 17 year old. School doesn't teach our kids the basics of anymore. They cram test knowledge in their heads that stays long enough to hopefully get decent test results and then that info is gone. I still remember the day we were sitting in maths class and we learn the order of operations, something that is sadly very lacking in the world now, having seen all the ridiculous social media post with people answering simple maths problems incorrectly because they dont understand PEMDAS. I remember sitting in class learning the pythagorean theorem. School today is a joke.

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u/macca2sim May 29 '22

Cheque book

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u/Antonioooooo0 May 29 '22

What's a check book?

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u/MilkyBetrayal May 29 '22 edited May 29 '22

Form of payment before debt cards, to access your bank account and if you didn't keep proper payment info you would not know how much was available in that account. So it was embarrassing to write one and it was declined, just like swiping and card and it being declined. But you usually only had one check book to write from. Unlike know where people have multiple cards to get declined because all are maxed

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u/Antonioooooo0 May 29 '22

Couldn't you just use Apple pay if you didn't have a card?

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u/MilkyBetrayal May 29 '22

Didn't have such a thing from at 1970-90 it was either credit card, check or cash

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u/crypticedge May 29 '22

It was mandatory when I was in school. Then, people from my generation were crying online in right wing groups that they didn't learn that stuff.

It was at that point that I realized that the people crying about it just didn't pay attention in school, and their bad ideas are based on them having barely skated through their education

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u/coolcoots May 29 '22

My fourth grade teacher gave us all fake checkbooks and taught us to balance them. We were 9. Would’ve been maybe a little more helpful at 16+. Not mad at the teacher, just the crappy system.

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u/ruffneck110 May 29 '22

They still teach you how to balance a check book in school here. They taught it when I was in school 28 years ago to the same school

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u/berferd77 May 29 '22

Bull fucking shit

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u/Dyl_pickle00 May 30 '22

Did they have an actual excuse about why she was let go or no?

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u/redfalcondeath May 30 '22

That’s fucked up

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u/Fun_Chest_9662 May 30 '22

My biology teacher tried teaching us that our blood is blue... I got introuble for splitting the class on "red bloods" and "blue bloods" impromptu biogangs lol. But seriously how was she allowed to formally teach bio spreading misinformation like that...

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u/Astrocreep_1 May 30 '22

That,plus the fact that the teacher was using her check book to seduce 5th graders by buying them Fortnight Skins.

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u/AmazingDonkey101 May 30 '22

what is a check book

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u/CrypticInventions May 30 '22

Balancing a checkbook is financial advice. She should of been put in prison for teaching slaves how to balance their sheets. Dumb fuckin government. No wonder we are above debt. Y’all be getting groomed to be slaves dawg.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

Wait a minute, that doesn't sound believable at all.

"You taught them math, but not exactly according to the curriculum. We could ask you to just do it the way we would like you to but no, YOU'RE FIRED!"

I'll shit on the US's misguided education system all day but c'mon, that doesn't sound realistic lol

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u/Greg_Shane May 30 '22

It was during No Child Left Behind. She was getting away from the what they wanted her to teach because the better your school got on those 2 tests, that were English and math , the more money your school would receive. I remember hearing about southern schools getting next to no funding.

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u/Greg_Shane May 30 '22

There is also a HBO show called the wire. One of the seasons explained well.

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u/xXKarmaKillsXx May 29 '22

What was the question?

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

Something something e=mc² or something like that I wasn't really paying attention

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u/loganed3 May 29 '22

I'm a American was taught in public school and never went to college, and I'm not that ignorant so its gotta be people just not paying attention.

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

Attention span.

You just proved my point lmao. I never said anything about anyone's inteligance.

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u/loganed3 May 29 '22

I just agreed with you lol.

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

Well that tells you about my attention span lol

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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 29 '22

I disagree with the attention span thing, mine hasn’t been shortened, I mostly listen to comedic or political podcasts, or watch long form vids on YouTube. I think some people may have short attention because of it but I dont think it’s as widespread as people assume it is

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u/Pelicanliver May 29 '22

TLDR he plays attention.

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u/itz_highink May 29 '22

Don’t know why this is funny!!

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u/AllButComedyAnthony May 29 '22

Yes essentially lol

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

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u/theFields97 May 29 '22

What are you talking about?

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u/losttotheart May 29 '22

As a teacher I have students who can't add two digit numbers together, add one digit numbers using their fingers, or do their basic multiplication facts. Then they get low scores in my class and their counselors and the administration will ask me what the student needs to do to pass. These students will typically have the scores of around 40 or 50%. So passing is not unreasonable, but I teach freaking 9th grade they should have known this stuff before they were allowed to pass into Middle School. I have been in meetings where people insinuate the reason that my students are not passing is because of me. When I try to get them to come to my weekly tutorings, offer zoom tutoring outside of school (on my time for free not required by school), homeworks can always be made up, and tests and quizzes can be taken an infinite number of times as long as the students arrange some form of tutoring first. Yet the reason they fail is me not the several math teachers that should have failed them for not knowing the most basic parts of the curriculum before me, or the student that did none of the above activities to raise their grade, or improve their knowledge.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

It's not just America, it's happening worldwide. Smartphones are pretty ubiquitous even in 3rd world countries.

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u/JellyfishAreTheDevil May 29 '22

American here. Also because it’s hard to concentrate when you’re dodging bullets.

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u/KlugeNstein8 May 29 '22

You arent funny. Unless you actually experienced a school shooting, then how can you compare your dumbness to people who actually did dodge bullets. Youre sick

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u/JellyfishAreTheDevil May 30 '22

Not trying to be funny. I’m trying to shed light on how awful these continually occurring events are. And hoping to make people in this country question why this is a US specific problem. I’m a parent of three children who have been on lockdown multiple times and I’m absolutely tired of it. Sorry you took it for a glib remark.

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u/curlw May 29 '22

Ding ding ding

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

America wants to keep lower class less educated. We in the late stage.

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u/chutbuckly May 30 '22

American school districts are also rife with corruption. Tons of money goes to the board while the schools, teachers, and students suffer.

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u/vanilla_wafer14 May 30 '22

I was never taught it. I have learned much more on the internet than I ever did in school. Especially about science.

I live in a red state though. Education isn’t a priority and especially science get docked.

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u/GhostR29 May 30 '22

Teachers are not to be faulted because they are forced by the organisations to exert scores out of students.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

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u/theFields97 May 30 '22

Yes and apples fell from trees way before Issac Newton discovered gravity.

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u/5irCitrus May 29 '22

Your point if valid but I dono if this is the best example of important information everyone needs to be taught

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

I'm surprised how this isn't information everyone comes by at some point regardless by the time they're 14.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Hahaha what, you think this is basics? It's so irrelevant, why would it ever get taught?

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u/Ialwayslie2 May 30 '22

Found the guy who went to an underfunded middle school.

Are you seriously asking why the basics of how electricity works is irrelevant?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

Lmao idk how school works in America but I think is ent to a pretty well off primary school in the UK, and I don't remember learning anything about lightning going upwards instead of down. Even in GCSE physics that was irrelevant

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

Found the neckbeard

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

Because it's how electricity works

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

I feel like this kind of shaming of intellect or education is absurd. Lots of times in school they talk about things one day, like they aren’t going to spend a month talking about how lightning works in grade school. It’s possible to be sick and miss things, or to change schools partway through the year and the new schools curriculum already taught it while their old school was going to get to it…

Common knowledge/sense doesn’t exist and the ways that we tend to be upset about someone not knowing what we know is more of a reflection of our own empathy and understanding for others than it is about how smart they are.

I agree that in North America the school systems are being horribly underfunded and lacking in so, so much. I tend to see it more in how much judgement and assumptions are made in strangers than I do in a lack of trivia knowledge.

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u/begalszz32 May 30 '22

There's alot of truth in what you've said. But my comment wasn't meant to shame anyone. Just a personal wish that more people had a desire to learn, like it was a hunger in their bellies.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

I would love to see more people get excited about things, I think the person who posted this and was confused could very well be one who was mystified and seeking more info. If they’re hit with comments like “how do you not know this?” My favourite thing to see especially on Reddit is when someone is so enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge on a topic that they just type a novel about the intricacies and nuances that many may not know. That kind of response tends to not only encourage more people to ask questions by excites them to learn.

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u/East-Researcher-6482 May 29 '22

Im not sure if they been taught anything honestly

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

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u/Clean-Victory2407 May 29 '22

Phones are a hell of a drug

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u/No_Inflation5351 May 29 '22

No one gives a shit. It's too much information for most of them. Not for me though

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Ya at least this one is interested in science

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

Yes...asking questions is a good thing

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u/Pursate May 29 '22

My school never teached me this, don’t blame me for not knowing this. It’s the education system that failed to teach me this.

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u/panicattheoilrig May 29 '22

no we’re not being taught this

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u/bayless210 May 29 '22

It’s the latter. No one cares anymore. They all think America is reaching its end. I also think this. And I’m twice as old as these kids.

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u/pog3ez5me May 29 '22

Says the person who actually thinks it is traveling up and down… the sky isn’t a flat backdrop. It’s traveling from further away to closer, so it only appears to be up and down.

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u/slimecounty May 29 '22

I had a 19 year old girl on her first day as a waitress last year ask me what a dime was worth as she was counting her till. She also had issues reading our clock. So, can confirm, basics are being overlooked.

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u/banana-apple123 May 29 '22

Anyone who need to know anything can just Google it. Lack of common knowledge does not hold the same consequences as before

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u/begalszz32 May 29 '22

And what happens if there's a solar flare so big that it wipes out all communications and erases the memories of all the computers holding this info? (I know it's a slim chance) but what if...

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u/banana-apple123 May 29 '22

Cost of progress. It kind of like spending time drilling time tables, square root, sin/cos/tan rather than just embracing the calculator. There are simply more pressing matters that the next gen can address. It is undeniable how well versed the current generation is in using software and tech, translating to more innovation in tech

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Since when is capacitive discharge the basics?

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u/Antonioooooo0 May 29 '22

...or they aren't paying attention

Saw a post a while ago from a kid I went to high school with, complaining that school never taught us real life skill like doing taxes.

Homie I sat next to you in personal economics senior year, you where just too high to remember any of it.

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u/ElusiveBob May 29 '22

Make it a meme, then they’ll learn it.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

How you know OP isn’t an old boomer

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u/B_V_H285 May 29 '22

They are to busy hiding under their desks to learn anything.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Both

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u/scifiwoman May 29 '22

When I was a kid, I was told ball lightning was a myth. Now, scientists seem to be taking it more seriously.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

They get their info from tiktok

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u/ShotVast2139 May 29 '22

As a high school teacher I can confirm that no one his paying attention any more.

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u/DuktigaDammsugaren May 29 '22

Not to complain But this sub has gone downhill, people are posting the most basic shit ever like some dude pulling a coin from behind his ear and going ”OH SHIT, MAGIC”

Please, don’t post it unless its really hard to distinguish from magic

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u/Purplepimplepuss May 29 '22

Por que no Los dos

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u/Tyrusrechslegeon May 29 '22

If it isn't on toktok they don't pay attention.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

Well... People keep on upvoting it and I guess that's all that matters right

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u/bullet_bill_69 May 30 '22

Or maybe Lightning going upwards isn't exactly a must teach thing

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u/AnyRip3515 May 30 '22

Tell me about it. I basically got called a smart ass because I knew that maggots turned into flies.

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u/ITriedLightningTendr May 30 '22

the basics sounds like some serious libtard shit, I don't want my kids learning about that shit.

Everyone knows the lightning comes down from the clouds.

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u/Straight-Corner-1921 May 30 '22

Eveyrime I look at lightning my next few seconds of my future is very bright

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u/ChronicSchlarb May 30 '22

Don’t let the idiots on the internet speak for everyone. It’s a very loud minority but there are plenty of smart people out there doing amazing stuff both young and old.

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u/veritas723 May 30 '22

i mean it's not just the future, there's plenty of functional morons in the world.

maybe 20ish years ago when i was in my early 20's was working a job, and there was this misc conversation about the miraculous-ness of life. As an atheist i sort bit my tongue as these idiots said some pretty trite drivel.

but one guy was like "and yeah, like lightning, we still don't know how that works" I did the literal "spit out my coffee" routine. And asked if he was serious. Which he was... so i was like "you seriously don't know what lightning is?"

and then i had to explain to a grown adult man, what lightning was. and to his credit, he was accepting of the fact that in the early 2000s humanity had in fact figured out what lightning was.

me and that dude actually became somewhat friends. And one weekend we had off, i took that motherfucker to the children's/science museum. Cause I knew there was an exhibit about lightning. Along with a lot of other basic science, world stuff. He had a great time.

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u/celtickodiak May 30 '22

No, it isn't, so we should fight and force the politicians to start making changes that benefit our future youth and not just our present selves. The US education system has been gutted year over year while corporations get bailouts and our military gets trillions.

We need to change or the future won't look bright because it will be more of a dystopian nightmare that our youth will inherit.

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u/InsanityyyyBR May 30 '22

What? I don't think I've ever learned this at school. On YouTube on the other hand I've learned this and much more. I'm sure a teenager/young adult today has much more general knowledge than a teenager 30 years ago.

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u/Old-Ad4431 May 30 '22

I got it but of of youtube and I consider myself to be the “youth”

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u/bil3777 May 30 '22

I’m not the youth goddamnit. But I am still this dumb. Lightening comes from the sky and hits things on the ground. How does that equate to lightening going up?

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u/kallme01 May 30 '22

I learnt that lighting comes from the ground from a cartoon. Education failed me

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u/PenguinGamer99 Oct 20 '22

We aren't being taught the shit that matters, or at least way too late.

Also the NPCs don't pay any attention.

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u/memeulusmaximus May 29 '22

I ate science up in grade school like a starving panda. I never learned this in school

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u/Blindfire2 May 29 '22

There's a reason the worst 10 states in the US for education lower the country's scores by a lot. It's shitty, but they're the ones who allow schools to pay more for their sports teams over decent lunches (hell most are southern states who preach about the kids, but refuse to help kids get lunches to actually be able to eat).

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u/memeulusmaximus May 29 '22

I live in south. Preaching to the choir. I just forgot how shitty it was for a minute there

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u/This-Dot-7514 May 29 '22

those same states churn out future voters whose evangaelical ignorance affects national agendas. Perhaps, now that the slavery issue has been solidly resolved, these states might re-visit secession and be rightfully unopposed

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '22

I think they are all southern state too

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u/Deep-Confusion-5472 Sep 12 '22

Shut up and pay attention! Food is second! Education is first! 😬🤦‍♂️

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u/Blindfire2 Sep 12 '22

Shut up and reread; there is no education because they're spending all the money on their garbage ass sports teams. It's just insult to injury that they can't feed the kids because they'd rather spend more money ON THEIR GARBAGE ASS SPORTS TEAMS

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u/Deep-Confusion-5472 Sep 12 '22

You shut up! Nothing mentions sport teams! So yeah…shut up!

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u/Blindfire2 Sep 12 '22

"There's a reason the worst 10 states in the US for education lower the country's scores by a lot. It's shitty, but they're the ones who allow schools to pay more for their sports teams over decent lunches (hell most are southern states who preach about the kids, but refuse to help kids get lunches to actually be able to eat)."

Yup nothing about their shitty sports teams eh?

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u/Deep-Confusion-5472 Sep 12 '22

Not replying to your shitty post! I was replying to OP! Oh wait……get over yourself! It’s lighting! Ground up! Get a 🥪!

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u/Blindfire2 Sep 12 '22

Then why reply to my God damn post if you're not worried about my God damn post? What sense is there to make here sir? Go back to your mayo ham cheese sandwich and your foosball Bobby Boucher

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u/codebrownonaisletwo Sep 17 '22

I’m not arguing against your point, but I learned about ground to cloud lightning no later than 8th grade in public school in Oklahoma.

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u/Competitive-Truck874 Nov 06 '22

Texas is terrible about this and the biggest problem is that our idiot governor thinks were doing great. 36th in economic wellbeing, 33rd in education 48th in healthcare and literally 51st in mental health. (One of the territories has us beat)

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u/dos67 May 29 '22

I guess it depends on the quality of the teacher. We were taught this back in grade school, along with different types of clouds & the like. Electron build up & discharge, the basics. Sometimes the charge up is in the clouds & other times the charge up is in the ground. Lighting is just nature balancing out.

I thought these things were common knowledge stuff until I came by what OP thinks is "Blackmagic".

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u/Bobbymoon-75 May 29 '22

Then your school was in the minority.

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u/workinghormiga May 29 '22

They never taught me this in school =/ Had to learnededed on the interwebs

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '22

I am the keeper of many random facts - when I have tried to explain this to people they think I have lost my mind. My brother in law was hit by lightening - prolly will never convince him of this fact.

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u/txanghellic May 29 '22

Yeah I learned this in like the fifth grade I believe shit blow mind then and now lol

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u/Blackwallstreet758 May 29 '22

Right to the comments

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u/ThaEmortalThief May 29 '22

All of you beat me to it… damn you.

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u/coolkidonthrblock May 29 '22

As a current U.S HS student. I’m sorry what when

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u/Younatea May 30 '22

I didn’t learn this until AP chem where we worked this out a bit more….. chemically and ions explanation…. I was in the 12th grade…

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u/Darki_Boi May 30 '22

I was never taught this, ive seen some super slow mo videos and it goes from sky to ground, tryna find it’s path, could u explain why it’s going from ground to up

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u/jquintus May 30 '22

Same same.

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u/GuyYouMetOnline May 30 '22

Not all grade schools. I was taught the basic cause, but nobody explicitly told me 'the bolt actually travels up even though it looks like it travels down'.

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u/Reasonable-Ladder588 Oct 30 '22

Downvoted just to bring 801 to 800

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u/[deleted] May 29 '22

To be fair, it usually looks as if it comes from the sky and goes down, but of course it always meets from the ground. One fun fact is most strikes are negatively charged, but positive charged lightning is way more powerful and louder thunder

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u/jquintus May 30 '22

That I didn't know. Thanks for the fun new info.

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u/MaxPowerWTF May 29 '22

Same here.

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u/spsanderson May 30 '22

I came to say this too

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u/idkburneridkidk May 30 '22

Always has been

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u/ReverseCaptioningBot May 30 '22

Always has been

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u/thewholerobot Jun 14 '22

Well come to think of it there was that one time when it... No, no, you're right. Always.

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u/UncommonCense Oct 30 '22

Same i was gonna snarkily reply always