Comment on american culture

WilloftheWest@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  most of the time someone says something wasnt taught in school its because that person straight up didnt pay attention in class

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I suspect there is significant overlap between the kids who were complaining in math class that what they were learning was useless along with the adults who claim math class didn’t teach them “how to do taxes”. (As if you do anything other than fill out a form, anyways.)

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Take the numbers from the numbered boxes, and transpose them into the numbered boxes on the tax form. There, you know how to do taxes, what are we gonna do with the other 13 years of your pre-college education?

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        But what if it puts me in a higher tax bracket and I get less moneyyyyyy?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wait we were supposed to pay attention in school now it makes sense

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    • mogranja@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Guess someone didn’t pay attention when the teacher said “Pay attention please” multiple times.

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• DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Mine didn’t. We did Buddy, The Crucible, Animal Farm and Shakespeare from what I remember. First I heard of the Odyssey was when I was 19 and DW did a retelling of it on Arthur. When I saw a copy of the story in the shop I worked at, I got it so I could read the actual story.

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  • WilloftheWest@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Were you not aware of it at any point? I don’t necessarily mean as part of the GCSE curriculum. I’ve been aware of the Odyssey and the Iliad from the “Ancient Greeks” part of our primary school curriculum back in year 4. Of course we weren’t analysing texts, but I’d expect any ten year old to be capable of rattling off some major plot points like blinding Polyphemus, or sailors plugging their ears with wax against the sirens and tying Odysseus to the mast.

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    • DakRalter@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nope, I don’t think I’d ever heard of it prior to the Arthur version.

      We did the fall of Icarus in Year 3. My little sister learned Theseus and the Minotaur when she was around the same age, which is how I knew about it. Other than that, I don’t remember studying Ancient Greek anything, not even Heracles. Your school was obviously better than mine.

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