What was the most pointless thing your school made you do?

Algebra as well; two years of it were required for anyone considered college prep, and I‘ve never had to use it since. That’s time I’ll never have back that could have been used to study something interesting or worthwhile... 😾
 

A class called Global, taught by the football coach. It was a study hall except for one project, no teaching required. The coach taught kids how to scramble their brains, not grow them.

The project was pick a country and make a plaster rendering of said country on a slab of wood. School supplied the materials. We had to paint it so it looked map-like. My partner was the one who painted it. I said leave it blank because, who cares. Yes we had to pair off to make that insulting piece of crap. What an embarrassing waste of time.
 
God knows why,in my senior year of high school I had to take business math course,barely passed it
I've always had problems with math but it did come in handy when I was a pharmacy tech.Every time I had to deliver narcotics to nursing units,I had to count a large amount of drugs that were in the drawers.Once in awhile I would lose count, because an impatient nurse or doctor wanted to get into the machine I was using. I would get very frustrated ,then they say'Oh,the count is off'
 
Algebra that makes no sense even in this day.
The frogs that we had to dissect in Biology, felt sorry for the poor things!
I went to Catholic school we had to learn how to use a fountain pen,never forget the messes with the inkwells and all then one company,Schaefer, maybe,came out with this ink cartridges that were way less messy, no couldn’t use them,I wouldn’t know where to find a fountain pen today,lm 65,went to school when the dinosaurs walked the earth🦕
Walked uphill to school both ways through 8 foot snow drifts,ya know that drill
 
A class in health taught by the gym teacher. Boys taught by the male teacher. Girls taught by the female gym teacher. I can't remember anything I learned from that class. I would have preferred learning from the female teacher. There would be plenty of questions I could have asked.
The only reason they were teaching health was because they were forced to. I suppose a gym teacher wasn't a real job. They were good at sports teaching however.
I took a cooking class. Now that has served me well. In those days they taught home economics.
I was terrible in math until I learned algebra. Now it was easy for me to solve for the unknown when the dumb farmer measured one side of the field in feet and the other side in yards and I had to compute the area. Area = l x w. Length is in feet. Width is in yards
Therefore Area= (l/3) x w .
Now for more fun the area of a circle. You really need to know that when buying a pizza that is offered as round and one that is offered as square.
 
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jujube said:
Memorizing dates, i.e. when was the Battle of Hastings fought? If, 40 years later, I needed that information, I'd look it up. But, for some reason memorizing the date was more important than learning WHY it was fought.

Has anyone walked up to you on the street and asked, "Pardon me, but do you know when the Battle of Hastings was fought?" I didn't think so.
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You will never make it on Jeopardy or the pub trivia team.:love:
 
Camper6 said:
You will never make it on Jeopardy or the pub trivia team.:love:
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Well, you obviously don't know me. You would be surprised at how good I am at trivia or Jeopardy. I'm a voracious reader and I feel I received most of my education through reading. That said, I still don't know when the Battle of Hastings was fought. I just hope it doesn't come up when I'm going for bonus points.
 
jujube said:
Well, you obviously don't know me. You would be surprised at how good I am at trivia or Jeopardy. I'm a voracious reader and I feel I received most of my education through reading. That said, I still don't know when the Battle of Hastings was fought. I just hope it doesn't come up when I'm going for bonus points.
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Well trivia buffs, and I'm one of them find out these things. To remember them is the hard part.
 
Giantsfan1954 said:
Same here,agreed! Did yours have the brass ruler?
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It seems like we all went to the same school. All my Nuns had rulers and they used them often. One thing that sticks out in my mind was everyday the girls had to kneel on the floor so the Nun could make sure that your uniform touched the floor and wasn't too short. Little did they know that once we left school
we used our uniform belt to hike up our uniforms. Of course none of the boys told the Nuns.
 
I know when the Battle of Hastings occurred, but just like the questions on Jeopardy,
'it won't come to me.'
I know it was William the Conqueror vs the Brit king (who ?) it was not yesterday or the day before.

I think my memory is hampered by thinking about all those Brit girls running around
in there underwear during P.E.... Hmmmmm....
 
jujube said:
Well, you obviously don't know me. You would be surprised at how good I am at trivia or Jeopardy. I'm a voracious reader and I feel I received most of my education through reading. That said, I still don't know when the Battle of Hastings was fought. I just hope it doesn't come up when I'm going for bonus points.
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Well, obviously you never read the definitive history book titled 1066 and all that. If you had you would know that history is not what happened but what everyone remembers. Surely everyone remembers 54 BC and 1066? No? :unsure: ;)
 

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