School is silly

and to everyone who's saying it's really easy to get high marks and not study, I know that but taking college/applied courses at my school is pretty unheard of and useless.

What would fat, dumb kids do? BANG

run for U.S. government when they grow up

Go to Sanford Highshool apparently. I moved back to my hometown, you should see te kids there these days.. My friends who visit call them prostitots walking around wih their babies all day at 15. So busted. Can be pretty discouraging just drivin around.

Agreed but they need to give you a well rounded education because frankly 99% of kids have no idea what they want to do or what background they'll need when they get there.

im not sure how it works in other education systems but where i live gym is a compulsory course in grade 9 and the general attitude is to get it over with and then not care about it for the remainder of your highschool career...

that people who are born "stupid" have the capacity to learn and get good grades even if it takes longer than other kids.

Same as it is easier for some people to lose or remain at a healthy weight. How is that different?

Grade 10 sounds far too late.

My school did, its called health class. Also, fuck you.

my school's course options are pretty limited compared to the others in my city but even we offer

^ I think he was just looking to call Americans fat because that's a hilarious joke still?

everyone should get 3 years of english and math. those are by far the most important two classes.

I think science in high school should have more a a focus on learning what we can do with modern science.

High school physics for example, is boring as hell. No one cares about marbles rolling down inclined planes. I know you have to learn it at some point, but I think a lot of it can wait till university.

Most students in physics learn classical mechanics 3 times. Once in high school with algebra, once in university with calculus, and then AGAIN in university with advanced calculus. What is the point?

Same goes for chemistry.

I'm not saying don't teach anything. Concepts such as unit cancellation, vector addition, balancing equations, and how to read a periodic table are important. But with the amount of time a high school student has to learn, I think at least half of it should be on interesting shit. Really how many people learned about space telescopes, or particle colliders, or time dilation, or lasers in high school? probably no one. You probably sat in a desk and memorized how to plug numbers into equations that you can't even derive.

If we changed they system, it would make first year university harder for some people. The trade off is it might get way more people interested in science and they will put up with the extra work in first year (it's still gonna be better than the next 3 years).

But MATH and ENGLISH?. EVERYONE needs to learn this. Doesn't matter if you hate it, you will need math for LOTS of things and english for EVERYTHING. I think high school should have math and english throughout the whole year for all three years. Twice as much. You don't know what you want to do in high school. Chances are you will never need to balance a chemical equation or use a fact from history class. But there is a very good chance that one day you will need your high school math.

^ no your opinion is fucking stupid

some people are born with obesity in their dna and other than surgery there is NOTHING they can do to lose weight.

Key word is some.

check your meter. . .



man

even if its a small percentage (which i dont think it is) of kids born obese, public schools cant use grading syatems that disregard

I'm dyspecific yet I manage to have a 4.0 because I put in the effort to overcome things that come harder for me. So I feel like effort does contribute to my grades in one way