[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;47849241]According to some of my friend's younger siblings, they now have a class dedicated to teaching "Life Basics" like filing your taxes, mortgages, how to buy a car/house. Wish they had that when I went to school... Still don't know how to buy a car/house or do my taxes.[/QUOTE]
This used to be a class, then it went away sometime in the 80s. I guess it's back again!
[QUOTE=megafat;47848743]I completely agree with the whole teaching things that i don't need to know. I've been told that I [I]might[/I] need algebra one day. I don't need algebra unless I'm going to get a job that requires it. What i [I]do[/I] need is to know how to pay taxes.[/QUOTE]
really depresses me when i see someone say "when will i ever need algebra"
why does everything you do have to plainly teach you a life skill
if the only things you were taught in school were how to pay taxes, buy a house or whatever other 'life skills' that would be dreadfully boring
Middle School PE was shit for me because of the "PE Kits" mentioned in the video. Im a tall person (6'7) so I was the tallest person in my middle school grades. The shorts we had to wear in gym class were these shitty red shorts and they had NO sizes big enough for me so I was this tall, slightly chubby, kid going through puberty having to wear these tight, early-basketball style lookin shorts and it didnt help I had no definition in my legs so all gym class every year I'd be uncomfortable being all self-concious about my dick pressing up against my flimsy shorts for an hour every day while everyone else shorter than me got along in relative comfort.
And I know its been discussed before but learning how to dance with others in gym sucked BALLS. In middle school I had ZERO social skills with women, no swag whatsoever. So whenever we did square dancing it would be just more uncomfort piled on top of the uncomfort brought by my tight gym shorts.
And you also got fucked up the ass if you forgot your gym uniform (PE Kit) as the teacher wouldnt loan you a spare one because they were both assholes with rage-boners, so they would make you sit out the entire class. And one of the teachers came in and noticed I was sitting out of class because I forgot my uniform and decided to rat me out to my parents about it during a chance-encounter at a basketball game. My parents then fucking yelled at me for having to sit out a period. Like, If had a kid and that happened to him and Id just say "Yea Shit happens m8, just dont let it happen again" and not make a whole car ride home miserable.
We also learned BOAT SAFETY in gym class for some reason where had to sit down and watch BOAT SAFETY videos in GYM CLASS where we should be running around.
Ironically for me one of my better experiences with PE was advanced weight training in high school. I was in the class with all the football players and shit and we spent almost no time playing games, and spent a lot of time just lifting weights and doing cardio.
This guy is amazing, I just watched all of his stuff!
Why have I never heard of him before?
In highschool when we had P.E. class where there were two teams we'd have to wear these colored shirts over our P.E. shirts and they were never washed for who knows how many years.
They smelled so bad that I'd sometimes gag while trying to put them on, hoping that none of the shirt would touch my face.
When you touched them you could feel the salt of the years of dried sweat rub off onto youre hands. It was fucking awful.
Come to think of it, I'm hugely surprised no one tried to do anything like get the Health Department or whatever to check that shit out.
Reading this thread makes me realize how shit US schools are. We didn't have to buy our books (schools would give them for free as long as they were not ruined at the end of a year), we didn't have to wear smelly shirts, our meals were really nice.
[QUOTE=papaya;47852254]really depresses me when i see someone say "when will i ever need algebra"
why does everything you do have to plainly teach you a life skill
if the only things you were taught in school were how to pay taxes, buy a house or whatever other 'life skills' that would be dreadfully boring[/QUOTE]
but not everyone is interested in algebra
it's kind of dumb that it's mandatory
[QUOTE=elowin;47853479]but not everyone is interested in algebra
it's kind of dumb that it's mandatory[/QUOTE]
Literally everything is something 'not everyone is interested in'
Even sex
[QUOTE=elowin;47853597]yeah, but some things are actually important
like reading. and writing. and basic math. those things should be mandatory
there's pretty much no reason why half of these other things are mandatory, though[/QUOTE]
So students can learn about things that may interest them?
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
Schools have to cater to a wide range of students, you can't just leave out things because some students may them find boring.
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;47853652]So students can learn about things that may interest them?
[editline]1st June 2015[/editline]
Schools have to cater to a wide range of students, you can't just leave out things because some students may them find boring.[/QUOTE]
I'm not saying leave it out, I'm saying don't make it mandatory. So that, yes, students can learn about things that actually interest them.
Thats amazing, the OFSTED notice he put up was about a school in my area which is attached to my actual secondary school, that teacher in question was actually a maths teacher of mine for a few weeks training before moving over to bishop bell
remember even making a thread on it here
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1213656[/url]
[QUOTE=Kolmala;47848323]Dumpert is stealing his videos too? Wankers indeed. They already do this with the Internet Comment Etiquette guy.[/QUOTE]
Dumpert is a user-submitted content site. It's pretty much this section of the forum but as a site.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;47848431]eventually one girl saw me and looked really really sad for me and just did it out of pity but that made me feel even worse and ever since then i've always felt that there's something actually seriously wrong with me that makes people not like me and even though i know that's crazy and wrong i can't help but think it's true because of this nagging feeling in the back of my mind
however when i'm drunk i'm liable to do and say just about anything and i love every second of it because i completely ignore that nagging feeling, i just wish i could bridge the gap so i could feel that way sober[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;FG1NrQYXjLU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1NrQYXjLU[/video]
Fuck em, dance happy :)
[QUOTE=Shotz;47848145]In response to 3, not too long ago Ofsted visited our school, but instead it was a surprise visit and the teachers only found out on the day, doesn't really change much for the lessons, I never noticed anything different with inspections.
[editline]31st May 2015[/editline]
I am British BTW, not sure why flag dogs making me American[/QUOTE]
I like how he says teachers used to change the program for the day because of inspection.
In my time in school, from time to time, the teachers preached about how the inspector was coming in on that day so we all had to behave. This happened a lot of times, always with the "oh he's around here inspecting classes!"
To this day, I have never seen someone inspecting anything. Hell, I've never seen anyone suspected of being an inspector, let alone anyone doing any inspecting.
He raises SUCH good points about P.E
On my 10th grade, we had this god awful teacher who was a purebred asshole. He flipped once cursing and "fucking off" right as he started teaching us rugby. He was the type of guy to tell us to run outside in the rain whenever he was mad while everyone else was inside.
Still not as bad as 5th grade. Or was it 6th? can't remember, but it doesn't matters.
We were told to play soccer with the 9th graders, which for some reason, I remember them as those 19 year old teens who smoke and have a soul patch on their chin and look like they will fuck you up good with a spring blade.
Anyway, they put little 12/13 y old me (or whatever age I was) as the goal keeper. I couldn't defend for shit because fuck getting nuked by point blank ball kicks and falling on the fucking cement, so they just said "GO FOR IT FFS". I threw myself into the ball's trajectory, and I did catch it.
And then I got kicked in the stomach a few times by 9th graders trying to score a goal...
(sidenote: then there was one of those 9th graders who was on our team for a little balance, dude sat in front of the goal net, laying back into one of the goal's poles, sleeping, with the goal completely open, yet, whenever the ball came close to him, he sprung back to life in no time, grabbed the ball, ran the whole field and scored himself. That dude was alright at least...)
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