originally posted in:Secular Sevens
[quote]Should schools be the one teaching kids to accept one another for who we are, or is it the parent's responsibility to do this? [/quote]
It's the parent's responsibility, but they often fail at doing their job. Therefore, the schools must come in to make sure that message gets through to kids.
[quote]Why don't we teach kids how to live in the god damn wilds[/quote]
Because that's -blam!-ing stupid. School need to reinvigorate their technical school programs, STEM courses, and Social Studies curriculum. Get rid of P.E., music, art, and cooking requirements. They're all idiotic wastes of my time, to be frank.
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[quote]Get rid of P.E., music, art, and cooking requirements. They're all idiotic wastes of my time, to be frank.[/quote] On the contrary, I think that they are very important. Being able to cook your own meals grants you a level of independence from other people and allows you to save money. Hell, it'll help land you a woman too if you can cook her breakfast. Music and art enrich the soul. What good is Spock without Kirk? And given how we have an obesity epidemic, PE is now more important than ever before.
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[quote]Music and art enrich the soul. What good is Spock without Kirk?[/quote] This is an insufficient excuse. If you want to invigorate the soul then do it in your own time as a hobby don't call it an education because it's about talent, not learning. Sure some people have a talent for learning, but some people have a talent for music. Sure, you learn to use a musical instrument, but unless you're becoming a musician (unlikely, it's an uncommon job. There's still a few musical jobs, but it's not as common as a lot of other profession and you can still learn it in your own time, because if you want to learn it and you have talent it's not that hard to learn providing you have the determination to do so), then it's a waste of educational time that should be spent learning things that are important like maths, physical and social sciences, and business and accounting and politics and stuff like that, seriously, why the -blam!- do they force us to learn this -blam!-ing musical crap?
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I pretty sure very few if any places would [b]require[/b] one to take a music class (unless it's elementary school general music). But the music and arts classes should be offered, it's an opportunity to be able to work on one's abilities; it is difficult to find the amount of time that music classes offer to practice outside of school between homework and having a social life. Music helps make a stronger mind; it exercises the right brain and opens up new pathways within the brain. Music can help with succeeding in other classes as well. I take band as my first class in the morning and afterwards I feel more awake and ready for the day than previous years when I had it later in the day. It is what you make it.
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I was going to make a reply but turns out I already did. [quote]At the very least every person should be a well rounded person who has at least tested the waters of everything. Otherwise we get people like Epert saying video games can never be art having never played a damn video game despite being offered a free Playstation with Journey on it.[/quote]
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[quote]I was going to make a reply but turns out I already did. [quote]At the very least every person should be a well rounded person who has at least tested the waters of everything. Otherwise we get people like Epert saying video games can never be art having never played a damn video game despite being offered a free Playstation with Journey on it.[/quote][/quote] No, you didn't. And schools don't make you well rounded people, they make you suicidally depressed, miserable, force you to be there against your will, and cause you to get endlessly bullied mercilessly until you slit your own wrists and -blam!-ing die. And, no, I'm not joking about that either. Highschools should be abolished.
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So all countries with high schools should have zero population right?
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School is what you make of it.
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And there goes me taking you seriously.
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Show me a study that proves that P.E. mitigates obesity, because I haven't noticed that it does jack at my school. And sure, cooking, music, and art are all great skills, but requiring students to take classes in these areas is silly.
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As it stands right now PE is just forced recess for a lot of folks. The curriculum needs to be improved. Removing it and leaving nothing in it's place isn't ideal. At the very least every person should be a well rounded person who has at least tested the waters of everything. Otherwise we get people like Epert saying video games can never be art having never played a damn video game despite being offered a free Playstation with Journey on it.
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You should be allowed to do what you want. When you go to college you get to do whatever the hell you want to do and you don't have to do PE so why do they force it upon you in highschool and it's illegal not to attend (truancy of school is illegal).
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My high school used the block system. So I killed to have PE year round.
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Go away. School would have been terrible without P.E.
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All I got out of it was an easy A, PE isn't useful.
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idgaf if it's useful. PE was fun.
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But what about classes that teach you how to [i]build[/i] stuff! I don't see a manufacturing or electronics class EVER. I wish there was a class where they go, okay guys lets make a robot. Or let's create a catapult, or engine, or a death trap lol. That's what I mean by living in the "wilds". If we have to make something we can come up with calculations, but we don't know how to put things together unless it comes with a god damn manual anymore!
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I'm on my school's robotics team, so we have something like that.
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yeah but you guys get kits right? Why don't you just machine all your parts and solder some wires and stuff?
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[quote]Why don't you just machine all your parts and solder some wires and stuff?[/quote] We do a lot of custom fabricing and wiring. Granted, we don't solder.
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You bastard lol. You have a better robotics program than I did in high school. I'm glad it's progressing.