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

Warrigal said:
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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Yes-and 1832 and 1848 and 1415.....i could go on.Did i mention i have a History Degree?It annoys me when politicians think that knowing dates is knowing History.
And 1066 is a date most know.I had kids studying the alleged battle site(turns it wasn’t where everyone thought it was-it’s on a roundabout in Hastings!) and trying to work out how Harolds side lost.It was because they were knackered by the way..had just come from another famous battle.
 
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🧐So Furryanimal, with his history degree, was sandbagging. That's a kick in the head, can't trust anyone these days.
Showoff
Lay in wait like a big old snake, then up pops the devil:☝ 'Did I mention I have a history degree...'🗣
 
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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14th October 1066...:D one of the first dates we learned in history :LOL:
 
Hate to be a party pooper here, and disagree about my education with the Catholic school Nuns who taught me.

My Sisters of the Holy Cross were compassionate taskmasters, and caring woman who lead lives most of us wouldn't choose, but did it with grace and devotion to life and learning. I was never abused by any of them in my 12 yrs of education by them, nor did I ever hear of any abuse in the student body of only 128 students of the private school I attended. I still think of them as remarkable people.
 
I hated school with a vengeance and couldn't wait to leave.......I found the female teachers were the worse ones for humiliating you in front of the class.

I left school aged 15 years and one month, on the day I left we had a school leaving ceremony and afterwards I was in the cloakroom collecting my belongings when my last class teacher came in and asked if I had a job to go to....yes I said I start tomorrow........her reply was...you won't be able to have so much time off when you are working....,my response to that was..........I won't need to because I won't be facing you everyday........with that she turned on her heels and walked out.
 
JaniceM said:
Considering the increasing popularity of computers, I'd doubt if kids are even taught longhand anymore.

I'm with you guys on algebra- and for that matter all upper-level math.
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Young people will grow up never being able to read longhand.
The written word of yesterday will require translation with a computer program by scanning grandparents love letters to one another.
Very sad indeed.
 
When I was in school the two issues that truly irked me was the unrealistic "Duck & Cover" ritual that none of us students was buying since we lived on Long Island at the time when Grumman Aerospace was designing nuclear missiles in Bethpage. Anyone here ever notice the teachers never ducked and covered up? Was it that they didn't want to ruin their clothes or they knew better. Hmmmm.


The infamous report card dilemma.

If only I knew this back in the day of leather straps.


Live and learn.
 
Bee said:
I hated school with a vengeance and couldn't wait to leave.......I found the female teachers were the worse ones for humiliating you in front of the class.

I left school aged 15 years and one month, on the day I left we had a school leaving ceremony and afterwards I was in the cloakroom collecting my belongings when my last class teacher came in and asked if I had a job to go to....yes I said I start tomorrow........her reply was...you won't be able to have so much time off when you are working....,my response to that was..........I won't need to because I won't be facing you everyday........with that she turned on her heels and walked out.
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Did you ever go back to school? Sometimes when a person is going because they want to, not because they have to, it makes a difference. I didn't start college until I was 24. It was the right choice and the right time for me.
 
No I never went back to school, when I started work I was a junior clerk for a shipping and forwarding agency doing all the running about between the Customs House and the Railway offices, by the time I left 9 years later to have my first baby I was the manageress of the office, when the manager was on leave I was in charge of the office and staff and made sure any new clients got through the Customs and onto a railway truck with no problems...I thoroughly enjoyed the work.
 
Cooking and sewing classes in 7th and 8th grades. Just for the girls, the boys had shop. I would have rather done that.

We made a sewing bag and then an apron to use in cooking class. All by hand. I was already sewing at home on my Grandma's treadle sewing machine, and had no patience for the dreaded backstich. And I vividly remember making creamed carrots in cooking class, a dish I've never been tempted to repeat.

The boys learned to use basic tools, do home repairs and build small tables and racks. I was so envious...
 
Autumn said:
Cooking and sewing classes in 7th and 8th grades. Just for the girls, the boys had shop. I would have rather done that.

We made a sewing bag and then an apron to use in cooking class. All by hand. I was already sewing at home on my Grandma's treadle sewing machine, and had no patience for the dreaded backstich. And I vividly remember making creamed carrots in cooking class, a dish I've never been tempted to repeat.

The boys learned to use basic tools, do home repairs and build small tables and racks. I was so envious...
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Oh, same here. Especially since we students knew how to do those things long before we took the classes.
It wasn't intentional, I'm sure, but one classmate summed up the class by writing HOME ACK" on her assignments. (It was supposed to be "Home Ec." )
 
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'How to Change your Report Card Grades-
Where was this video in 1955? Damn!
Do schools still issue report cards?

Duck and cover:
That nonsense went on through the early fifties, it is a wonder we weren't all traumatized-of maybe we were? Good topic to follow up...

Remember the bomb shelters?
Any college student of that era would tell you it takes several inches of solid charcoal
to filter out the radiation present in air, making any oxygen breathing creature doomed.
Yet, those with this knowledge made no public announcement that bomb shelters were useless.
Oh well, there excellent tornado shelters, bet the survivalist grab 'um up.
 
Ahh yes, Shop classes for boys, while girls took Home Ec and learned the fundamentals of cooking, sewing, and home management, you know, useful stuff! I made crooked bookcases and ugly table lamps, things which if I now need I can buy better versions of numerous places. Gender-based curriculums apparently assumed that males would never need to cook or mend clothing, and that there would always be a submissive female around who would hasten to make the hapless male a meal...
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
Algebra. ;)
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Algebra by itself is not necessary, but if you are going to a job where math is critical, then you also need subjects like Advanced Geometry and Trigonometry or Trig. It teaches the pupil about equations, formulas and rules. It’s like a precursor to the next level. It makes learning the next level more understandable. My very first job out of college was a Product Engineer for DuPont. Algebra really did help me to get through Trig. If the student has no plans where math would help them with their vocation, then it’s unnecessary. Even as a pilot, I have used some geometry and of course, some math.

Back in high school, we were told that most colleges wouldn’t consider you, unless you had taken an advanced math course.
 

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