“(Re: 5 least useful things learned in school)
My youngest is in 10th grade.”
In 10th grade, no one knows if they’re going into biology, geology, mining engineering, bridge demolition, or a career in football. No one knows what they’re going to need, so they try to give them a grounding in the basics, specialization to follow.
“1- Evolution as fact.”
Evolution is a fact, it’s been observed to happen.
It’s also a theory that tries to tie the facts together to explain them.
Hopefully your kid knows more than you do.
“2- Homosexual lifestyle acceptance.”
Well, they’re citizens, it’s a fact of life, it’s a secular country with no secular basis to discriminate. I’m sure you’ll indoctrinate them into your superstition, but the school can’t, and shouldn’t, do that for you.
“3- Any Social Studies or History class that starts off with a lesson on mankind 1,000,000 years ago.”
There was no mankind a million years ago. No one teaches that except creationists lying about what evolutionists believe.
Were you homeschooled or just hit on the head a lot?
“I can't think of any others right now,”
Oh, my GOD, i’d be embarrassed to hit ‘enter’ if i could only come up with three out of a number as low as FIVE!
My five least useful knowledges from High School?
Hmm.
1. How Scoring worked for a bowling game (That was our test one year in Phys Ed)
2. The entire list of helping verbs (which I may be able to recite on my death bed)
3. Sewing a shirt (I have made exactly one shirt in my entire life. I got a C.)
4. The Plot of As You Like It (I was SO bored reading it that i could only drum up the interest to write my report by typing it on 16 feet of adding machine tape to hand in. I lost ten points because of the headache Mrs. Thomas got reading it.)
5. Dodgeball.