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Schools should teach more practical subjects, they're more useful to loads of people and improve engagement. If they have to reduce subjects like history to do that then they should.
History? That's the one you wanna get rid off? Do you just want obedient working bees that easily fall for propaganda and previously used control tactics? 😔
I didn't say get rid of, I said reduce.
They don't teach enough history already. Reducing it would be a complete disaster.
Fair enough, but I still think that's the one that shouldn't be reduced. For instance, ICE is a mercenary group for human trafficking working in the interest of for-profit prison shareholders, we have seen this something like this before, right?
What would you reduce instead?
Have different types of high schools instead. My cousin went to bakery school in Germany at 16, for example.
That's not how it is in the US? Here in Czechia you can either go to a general "gymnasium" (aka general high school) or to a high school that specialises in a certain subject, or to a specialised school that is not a high school (usually trades).
There are basically only general high schools in the US with two small exceptions: religious schools that teach religious studies in addition and STEM magnet schools that have a bit better science/math programs.
My late teens and early 20s would have been a lot less destructive if I had received even just a small amount of practical financial advice.
Yep, a lot of young people need advice
I really miss things like shop class existing. I would have thrived in that kinda stuff.
I don't wanna reduce history but more practical skills would be nice. Honestly not really sure what I'd change to bring things like shop class back, but I probably wouldn't want it to be history.
English maybe? Its massively important that kids learn to read and learn from books but I think formal grammar and whatnot have way too much emphasis placed on them. Ability to communicate effectively is affected by grammar, but you can communicate extremely effectively with "wrong" or informal grammar, which people generally intuitively pick up on. I'd rather more emphasis on practical communication- but then I'm not sure that would actually make more space for things like shop class. I dunno 😅