This is just me talking about stuff on my mind, turn around now if you don't wanna read a bunch of text.
Put this in Serious to hopefully ward off trolling.

So! As many of you probably don't know, I am a teenager, in High School, trying to get good grades to hopefully get into gaming development or computer engineering, and the more and more I go to class, the more I think...

Why am I learning about this The Great Gatsby when they could be teaching me more important things? Like how to pay taxes, getting a job, buying a home, why am I not learning these skills?

I was homeschooled by my parents for a while, and am still taught a lot by them, and my parents are teaching me how to work in the Stock Market with buying and selling stocks, how to start a business, so on so forth.

MY PARENTS are teaching me more useful information than SCHOOL, the place where you are supposed to learn how to do things in real life.
Why? Why can't school explain to me how to make a good resume? How to work on a business or the best ways to commute to work? Why can't I learn those things?

Sure, knowing some chemical reactions and some abstract math can be useful...but for 1% of the time, the other 99% have you doing basic multiplication, addition, subtraction and division. Unless you are a friggin Rocket Scientist you won't need to know those things.

Which I why I wish that school systems focused on real world information, then had personalized classes that teach you in the areas you need to know for your specific career path
But that'll never happen, because this is the USA, which has a horrible education system.

A large percentage of high schools have some form of economics and personal finance courses that you have the option to take. I personally believe they should be mandatory, and I feel very strongly about that. Anyway, the main purpose of high school is to expose you to a broad range of different disciplines to, hopefully, give you an understanding of the potential courses of education that you'll be capable of taking in college- Where your options really blossom into basically anything you want (With some restrictions). You learn valuable things about your skills, interests, and passions during high school, but you need to be exposed to a lot in order for that to happen. Inevitably, you won't come to use all of what you learn, but it's a valuable process.

A large percentage of high schools have some form of economics and personal finance courses that you have the option to take. I personally believe they should be mandatory, and I feel very strongly about that. Anyway, the main purpose of high school is to expose you to a broad range of different disciplines to, hopefully, give you an understanding of the potential courses of education that you'll be capable of taking in college- Where your options really blossom into basically anything you want (With some restrictions). You learn valuable things about your skills, interests, and passions during high school, but you need to be exposed to a lot in order for that to happen. Inevitably, you won't come to use all of what you learn, but it's a valuable process.

I'm probably being a little too demanding when it comes to the real world info, but I wish it was at least something that is NOT optional.
You MUST take at least 1 course, that would at least show that schools give a shit.

Quote from: PKMN Trainer Pip on September 24, 2015, 07:18:01 PM

Quote from: Thunder on September 24, 2015, 07:13:44 PM

Because it expands your mind. Otherwise you'd just be a straight up tool.

Would you be?

I get academics is an important thing, and knowing these things can prove useful in the right situations, but I wish school would put at least a little effort into teaching kids how to live in the world other than 1 + 1 = 2

A lot of school's do this though, mine did. They gave as guidance on resume building and job searching in my senior year. We had good teachers too though, like the ones who actually give a damn about you. What grade you in breh?

Sophmore, early on


I go to online school btw, not actual public schools

Like how to pay taxes, getting a job, buying a home, why am I not learning these skills?
and my parents are teaching me how to work in the Stock Market with buying and selling stocks, how to start a business, so on so forth.
 Why can't school explain to me how to make a good resume?

I learned these things in required high school courses in the middle of a fucking farmtown in Pennsylvania.

Why are the rest of you people's schools so fucking retarded?

ike how to pay taxes, getting a job, buying a home, why am I not learning these skills?

I learned all of that in high school, but your parents are largely responsible for that stuff.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on September 24, 2015, 08:15:52 PM

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ike how to pay taxes, getting a job, buying a home, why am I not learning these skills?

I learned all of that in high school, but your parents are largely responsible for that stuff.

Okay, what if your parents are uneducated, unmotivated or dead?
Same goes for Gaurdians.

Not everyone is taught the same way, so some people will need more education than others.

Internet.

Quote from: PKMN Trainer Pip on September 24, 2015, 08:17:10 PM

Okay, what if your parents are uneducated, unmotivated or dead?
Same goes for Gaurdians.

Then you're fucked.

You can try the Internet, but there's nothing like the hands-on experience, if you ask me.

Which is why there should be SOMETHING in school for this!
Just SOMETHING, ANYTHING! It could be an open session where the students ask the teacher different life questions that the teacher could explain in detail, or have a hands on experience.

Hell, my parents told me to pick out two stocks, watch them and chart the counts, and note all the news that could effect the stocks. Then I can see when the best time to sell/buy and do it at those times. Which then they'll buy them and sell them.
Now THAT'S how you do it! Well...the teachers wouldn't buy the stock, but you can have your students watch some.

Just something hands on, something interactive, something informative ANYTHING!

Hell, my parents told me to pick out two stocks, watch them and chart the counts, and note all the news that could effect the stocks. Then I can see when the best time to sell/buy and do it at those times. Which then they'll buy them and sell them.
Now THAT'S how you do it! Well...the teachers wouldn't buy the stock, but you can have your students watch some.

Reactionary investment is a terrible way to do it. Your parents are teaching you wrong.

Quote from: PKMN Trainer Pip on September 24, 2015, 08:30:27 PM

Hell, my parents told me to pick out two stocks, watch them and chart the counts, and note all the news that could effect the stocks. Then I can see when the best time to sell/buy and do it at those times. Which then they'll buy them and sell them.
Now THAT'S how you do it! Well...the teachers wouldn't buy the stock, but you can have your students watch some.

Reactionary investment is a terrible way to do it. Your parents are teaching you wrong.

The buy/sell thing is optional, i'm not doing it. Mainly just watching and learning.

Quote from: PKMN Trainer Pip on September 24, 2015, 08:35:33 PM

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Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on September 24, 2015, 08:15:52 PM

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ike how to pay taxes, getting a job, buying a home, why am I not learning these skills?

I learned all of that in high school, but your parents are largely responsible for that stuff.

Okay, what if your parents are uneducated, unmotivated or dead?
Same goes for Gaurdians.

Not everyone is taught the same way, so some people will need more education than others.

Honestly I don't even know why it's taught in high school. You're not going to retain any of it because you'll go at least a couple more years without even needing it, especially if you go to college. Barring that there are guides for basically anything you could ever do; and honestly, unless you're getting a 1040EZ or other simple statement you really should be using a professional for taxes, especially when you own multiple properties or fucked up your itemization throughout the year.

I have no clue what you're talking about



Which is my EXACT FRIGGIN POINT.
They can get the idea in your head. So you aren't completely lost trying to figure out how to pay it!

I didn't learn any of that in high school, I  learned it actually filing my taxes. We have such unbelievable access to simple guides for almost any task on the internet, it's kind of silly to complain that you're not learning. Trust me, as someone that learned the stuff you're saying you wanted to learn, when I say it was completely pointless.

I'd rather not learn on a trial and error basis, and why am I going to school when I can learn everything online?
Because school is a hands on experience, something most online guides can't teach. They can introduce you to a lot, they don't have to go into detail, but can give you an idea.

Quote from: Meta as Fuck on September 24, 2015, 08:48:26 PM

Why don't you stop being a little bitch and teach yourself?

Because what the hell are my parents paying for? Me to know shit I probably won't ever need and not how to psy friggin taxes?!

I cannot tell you 25% of my state laws
I cannot recite the human rights OR the Constitution(working on that)
I barely know anything I need to know!

High school is more about competence and foundational knowledge so you can find what you enjoy and pursue it later in life.

When people tell you that high school basically has no impact on the rest of your life, they're right.

But yeah, basically the answer is that some things aren't optimal to be learned in an academic environment and most of your classes will help expand your mind a bit. If you sit through the majority of your classes thinking "this is pointless", then you're going to hate college and Computer Engineering might not be for you.