What's Something You Were Taught...

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Originally Posted by geburgess

2) YOU WILL USE CURSIVE ALL THE TIME WHEN YOU ARE OLDER!!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

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This one for me. I literally cannot write in cursive anymore. I stopped writing in cursive in high school. I couldn't write a sentence if you wanted me to.

Another thing that I was taught was that a lot of the stuff I was learning was important. They really had me fooled there for a bit.

I havent used cursive since the year after they taught it. I dont even right my name in cursive unless scribbles count towards cursive.

Everyone's a winner!

the boogyman does not exist.

Weren't we supposed to have a colony on the moon by now?

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Originally Posted by ISUKyro

Everyone's a winner!

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Everyone that participates deserves a ribbon.

Return of an Ice Age (Elementry School), Global Warming (Undergraduate), Global Climate Change (Now)...

It will make you go blind... can't be true or the entire universe would be visually impaired.

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Originally Posted by CycloBelle

It will make you go blind... can't be true or the entire universe would be visually impaired.

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sitting to close to the t.v. ?

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Originally Posted by johnpkelly81

To eat everything on my lunch tray no matter what.
It was like forcing food you hated down your throat.

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Me too!! Now I am fat.

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Originally Posted by geburgess

... in elementary/middle/high school that you know is complete bull now? What a hilarious read.

What's something you were taught in elementary/middle/high school that you today know is complete ********? : AskReddit

Three of mine:
1) Pluto is a planet... such a sad day when that changed.
2) YOU WILL USE CURSIVE ALL THE TIME WHEN YOU ARE OLDER!!! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
3) Anything math related, like 'You can't take the square root of a negative number' and 'Anything divided by zero is zero'... ugh...

What about you guys?

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I totally agree with #2. That was funny, but this is before PCs were actually useful and affordable to most people.


As far as #3, well they aren't about to teach a 6th grade number theory. So yeah..most people won't be running into imaginary numbers or anything so they just tell you that **** so you don't have to rot your mind

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My kids are working with this now.
I made them do a ton of English conversions first, then metric......
They are so ****** that we don't use the metric because it's so easy to work with :biglaugh:

It's sad really. How many countries don't use the metric system?? 2, maybe 3? Time to step up America!

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The metric system is so easy...."oh convert meters to kilometers multiply by 1000 because kilo means 1000 and meters is the base" If you want to convert feet to miles, you have to divide by some weird number, 5280.

Cursive also takes too much time to write too.. "oh you have an extra hump so your letter makes no sense anymore. It's now an 'm' instead of an 'n'."

Don't run with scissors.......oh wait, I'm missing my pancreas now.

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Originally Posted by marothisu

I totally agree with #2. That was funny, but this is before PCs were actually useful and affordable to most people.


As far as #3, well they aren't about to teach a 6th grade number theory. So yeah..most people won't be running into imaginary numbers or anything so they just tell you that **** so you don't have to rot your mind

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But for #3, I was taught that in 7th and 8th grades (when I took Algebra and Geometry), so by that point we should be able to comprehend imaginary numbers... It's not that hard.