rajew i am not trolling you. you do not understand how bad school systems can get, they can be worse than this even
when it came to history, we didn't learn shit (ESPECIALLY if america wasn't involved. we learn vague bits of history starting from the pilgrims coming to america to mayyyybe the end of ww2, but we don't learn what caused ww2 we just learn that the holocaust happened and we bombed japan, also ww1 is completely skipped over and pretty much anything else actually unless it's us sticking it to the british)
idk if you were in irc when i told the stories about my geography class but here's a summary of this:
the entire class was basically as if my teacher had read a book on new age teaching methods and wanted to try out every single one of them, so here's what we did--
1) he would throw a nerf football to us when asking us questions because somehow this made physical-oriented people learn better
2) we had to make up a hand movement to relate to our name, i had no clue what this really meant but he was very insistent on this
3) we had to rotate desks because he read some study about how people in certain locations of the classroom learn better (idk maybe it's because the better students PICK those seats????)
4) using a keyword to mean "WE ARE ABOUT TO START LEARNING" makes kids learn better, so he would always say "GUNG-HO" when we were supposed to start working
5) coloring with crayons
6) the grossest cookie-cutter essays ever. no, seriously, when i say cookie cutter, i mean they were almost literally
mad-lib essays. he'd give us a work sheet and we'd have to walk to the front of the class and look at lists of words (for example PICK OUT A SENTENCE STARTER, LIKE "HOWEVER" or "ALTHOUGH"). i have never seen a worse exercise in bad writing and we did these like every week
7) junior year of high school
we were also required to take a class called PARENTING aka "don't get stds or get pregnant, but if you do don't microwave your baby or do drugs"
we had a guest speaker in this class once that talked to us about stds
she told us a variant of the
aids mary story, saying she read it in a newspaper
i seriously think my jaw dropped when she started telling this story because i was thinking "oh god....no...she can't be telling this story....please tell me this is a different story....oh god no...no...don't say welcome to the world of aids...no don't....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
we had a guest speaker tell us a fucking URBAN LEGEND FROM THE 80S as if it was fact, i wanted to puke it was the dumbest thing!!!! after class i went and TOLD HER that it was an urban legend and she did not believe me. jesus it SOUNDS fake what is wrong with you
rajew please tell me now that you don't believe me