Subjects Not Taught in School Any Longer

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I've never been sorry I did NOT take Latin, and I've little use for Roman numerals. They should have been swept into the old history dustpans of time 200 years ago

"Research papers?" Are you serious?
 
I think Latin would have helped with vocabulary skills, being the fact many of our words are combinations of two or more Latin words. Perhaps more so if you are a student of Law or Medicine: hypodermic (hypo=under, dermic=skin).
 
Great topic and agree with Dibbons

Add to list:

History: What history is being taught is rewritten to meet political needs.

We repeat mistakes from past if we don't learn from the past

English Language - This is not longer English being taught in some schools.

English in the traditional sense has been hijacked and relabeled as "White Priviledge" in universities to shame some of us.

BTW, this is not meant as a rant against African Americans but against those who teach or indoctrinate us be ashamed our American heritage. I love America and defend it!

Punctuation - can't take students creativity away

Languages - Learn other languages (German, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Latin, etc)
Most other countries are taught English in addition to their language

Spelling - what can I say?

Mathematics/sciences - Dumb down everybody into using calculators.
Now many do not know how to + - x divide.

Math & Sciences are the very base to our passion....automobiles

Now we're behind in maths and sciences while the rest of the world passes us.

Music - is another language like math and English and requires discipline.
Discipline or lack of, follows us through our entire life

We have it too easy and if we were hungry we'd definitely be focusing on these subjects
 
I think smart phones have dumded down our kids & society. These kids dont have real one on one conversations no more. I tried show this mothers daughter how to change her tire on her SUV & she couldn't stop looking at her phone. It's like Mike Rowe told people in Washington that we need to start pushing these kids toward technical training at trade schools instead of going to college. Some kids are just not cut out for college. Machinist are getting harder to find; but if someone is trained in that field they can just about name their price on pay. Hard thing to watch these days for sure
 
I work with a 33 yr old chief of staff of a very important part of the the city’s infrastructure,and he ask me to show him how to tell time on a conventional clock.

Yea so there’s that....
 
Yep most of you guy's hit it on the head. My son is in H.S. he stopped going to dance's kid's didn't even socialize they were all on there cell phones. And we had to teach him cursive, because the schools didn't see a need for it. :realcrazy:
 
My 2 youngest daughters live with their mother and go to school in her district, the oldest of them saw my desk calendar and asked about December 7th being embossed and I asked her if she knew what it meant, no she said! I had to explain it to her because she has never been taught about it in school.
:wtf:
 
I'll tell you whatever there doing is not working these kids now a days out of high school are dumb. Cant even have a simple conversation with them. The future is going to be sad.
 
This is why my wife and I are home schooling our kids. When teachers are forcing their political opinions on kids, there is something wrong. My wife’s nephew (12 years old) got put out in the hall recently because the liberal teacher wanted to talk about gods. The nephew said there is only one God and the liberal teacher took offense.
 
dibbons said:
According to Reader's Digest Article:

Typing
Cursive
Home Economics
Latin
Shop
Roman Numerals
Research Papers
Library
Life Skills

9 School Subjects You Took That Your Kids Won't
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Well, that’s not true everywhere. In our public school district that my daughter attends, it goes like this...

Typing - taught in computer class, not separately
Cursive - taught in 5th grade
Home Economics - taught in life skills class including, budgeting, banking, fiscal planning and business
Shop - it’s an elective and can be as extensive as half days at the technical school learning wood working, carpentry, mechanics and fabricating.
Roman numerals - taught as part of History, not math
Research papers - taught in math, science and history as major part of grades
Life skills - see above.

Just because the way things are taught today are different doesn't mean the students aren’t getting all the skills, they just get them in a different way.

The modern World isn’t the one we grew up in nor was the World we grew up in the same as our parents. The leap in technology was far less between us and our parents than it is now between us and our kids.

Things must, and always do, change.
 
Here is a simple example of why typing isn’t taught as a separate class anymore.

The basic “QWERTY” keyboard has been around since the advent of the typewriter. But although it still exists, it’s not the same in the computer age. Numbers and special characters are on separate tabs that can be selected directly rather from all being on the base keyboard. That is far different that a typewriter.

Kids are taught a different way to use the keyboard than we were because the technology is very different today...and they need the skills that apply in the modern world, not the previous world.

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daddio4048 said:
I think smart phones have dumded down our kids & society. These kids dont have real one on one conversations no more. I tried show this mothers daughter how to change her tire on her SUV & she couldn't stop looking at her phone. It's like Mike Rowe told people in Washington that we need to start pushing these kids toward technical training at trade schools instead of going to college. Some kids are just not cut out for college. Machinist are getting harder to find; but if someone is trained in that field they can just about name their price on pay. Hard thing to watch these days for sure
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I said this many yrs ago. Sprint 20 yrs in a school district. About 1% of graduating class will go to college half of that will complete. High schools should developed skill centers and test and focus on what skills kids have and what their interested in. Too much push on college.
 
a year ago, my kid completed 4 years of Latin in public High school. learned keyboarding in 4th grade and cursive in 3rd grade Lutheran school. US history is not taught in College unless its the dark side in a cultural diversity class. My cousin cant read or write in cursive, exclusive San Francisco private school too! But a boy did show up in a prom dress for her 8th grade graduation, no joke. FAIL!

I learned typing in 5th grade summer school. first week was easy, 2-12 week we had blank caps on the keys and had to look at the blackboard for a keyboard 'legend' if we got stuck. Typed 88 WPM after that but I'm not a touch typist anymore?
 
Danny Boy said:
Great topic and agree with Dibbons

Add to list:

History: What history is being taught is rewritten to meet political needs.

We repeat mistakes from past if we don't learn from the past

English Language - This is not longer English being taught in some schools.

English in the traditional sense has been hijacked and relabeled as "White Priviledge" in universities to shame some of us.

BTW, this is not meant as a rant against African Americans but against those who teach or indoctrinate us be ashamed our American heritage. I love America and defend it!

Punctuation - can't take students creativity away

Languages - Learn other languages (German, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Latin, etc)
Most other countries are taught English in addition to their language

Spelling - what can I say?

Mathematics/sciences - Dumb down everybody into using calculators.
Now many do not know how to + - x divide.

Math & Sciences are the very base to our passion....automobiles

Now we're behind in maths and sciences while the rest of the world passes us.

Music - is another language like math and English and requires discipline.
Discipline or lack of, follows us through our entire life

We have it too easy and if we were hungry we'd definitely be focusing on these subjects
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When was the last time you were actually in a classroom?
Or is this something you were just told and don't actually have a real clue.
I teach History everyday, I'm there to teach and not to preach. I put the facts out and how a student digests that info is on them.
As for math, there are a lot kids doing advanced math. The need for calculators speeds up that ability to teach these kids this. Gone are the days of a instructor working out a problem on a 12X20 black board for days on end. It's not practical.
As for your assessment of English and Language arts, you're so far off its unreal.
As for proper punctuation, I can tear your post apart as you've made several errors.
Again, this all begins in the home. You're not happy with the the current state of education, take an active role in it. In the end, your children get the education you pay for and are willing to provide.
 
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pishta said:
US history is not taught in College unless its the dark side in a cultural diversity class.
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What the actual **** are you talking about?
Don't go giving me that" my friend says" **** either.
I see history taught in college's on a daily basis.
I have a History degree. None of it was an indoctrination. In fact, the least liberal and most moderate students in a University are generally the history students. We generally see things for what they are, not the slanted view from either side.
 
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gunbunny said:
To be fair, these things should be taught by parents and not schools.
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Yes they should; but
Fat chance with both parents having to work, not getting home until 6 or 7, then gone by 7 or 7:30Am. And the kids cannot be disciplined in the usual way, for fear the state will take them away.... and we know how that goes. So the kids gravitate to the lowest level, turning into vegetables. Or flipping and they go psycho. or commit suicide. or introvert. or shoot-up their schools.etc.
There is no moral compass, no discipline, no physical touching, no parent to say well done my child.
Yes, I agree ; there is an element turning our kids into zombies. And they are all gonna die either stupid, ignorant, or just not giving achit. I can see it in my own grandkids.
Why is this happening? Well if you (not you personally Gunbunny), the common man, can't figure it out, then it already started in your generation.
The difference is that some of our older generation can see it coming; whereas the zombie-kids cannot even imagine it.When our generation is gone, the ship will have no rudder. The final generation will mindlessly follow whatever charismatic figurehead shows up.
see, I never mentioned GodAlmighty once. OOps.
 
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