Other Most Useless skill they taught you in school?

[Otaku_Girl]

How to solder a circuit board. No other context or learning how to apply it to general life; just, here’s a circuit board, now solder this bit....aaaand class is done.

 

[Tahiti]

How to pretend to strangle myself convincingly and fall off of stage without dying. (Took Drama.)

 

[Otaku_Girl]

How to pretend to strangle myself convincingly and fall off of stage without dying. (Took Drama.)

The context really makes that less worrying

 

[Tahiti]

The context really makes that less worrying

Nearly didn't add the context, realised how weird it sounded. Drama at my school was pretty weird and I learnt a lot of random skills. (Another few are: Flip tables without breaking them, pretend to slap someone - I struggled with this and tended to actually hit them and pretend to be floating in the air.)

 

[Imaginarium]

How to play a flute.
How to mix paint made fore kids (don't know what it's called in English) to make silly pictures. No painter uses those paints. They use oil based paints of acryllic. Which at the time didn't cost a whole lot more.

 

[03WillowTree30]

I'm probably older than a lot of people here so my skill might not be the same useless skill they taught you guys. Ok, so when I was at school penmanship or neat handwriting was a big thing. You had to write very neatly in cursive no less. It was even a big deal when they let you graduate from grey lead to pen!

So silly and even 20 years ago when I started work I found I would just print words anyway when I had to hand write something because it is so much easier to read. I really hate having to try and read anyone's cursive writing. And when you don't hand write, you use a computer now anyway. So that is the most useless skill they got us to learn in school.

What is yours?

The useless thing they taught us? Well... this year's my senior year, even at the age of 18. (I got held back when younger) So like.... algebra.
It's so dumb, I don't get it. Why?

 

[DuckLime]

Okay...Of course all of us need math.
But not like, math that makes you draw circles with compasses, don’t think shapes will ever heavily influence me.

 

[Morlock]

The useless thing they taught us? Well... this year's my senior year, even at the age of 18. (I got held back when younger) So like.... algebra.
It's so dumb, I don't get it. Why?

I have always been suspicious about numbers and letters mingling like that.

 

[Peaceful-Crow]

I'd say how the 'teach' you how to handle bullies. Oftentimes, turning the other cheek or going to a teacher can make it worse. Or at least in my experience...

 

[Morlock]

I'd say how the 'teach' you how to handle bullies. Oftentimes, turning the other cheek or going to a teacher can make it worse. Or at least in my experience...

I was taught that crap as well. One day I was sick of getting picked on so I fought back. Lo and behold if that didn't buy me 6 months of peace before I had to hit someone again!

 

[Peaceful-Crow]

M Morlock At least it bought you 6 months of freedom. At some schools I know, you can get suspended even if you were fighting back. Bully or not.

 

[Morlock]

M Morlock At least it bought you 6 months of freedom. At some schools I know, you can get suspended even if you were fighting back. Bully or not.

Yeah I know. Teachers like to support the bullies while they punish their victims for fighting back. Teachers aren't known for their smarts or logic.

 

[Flac]

Euclidean Geometry, for me anyway. I am sure there are people out there who do use it but I am not one of them.

 

[Cactus22]

I had to read What to Expect When You're Expecting as part of a pseudo-required parenting class in Grade 11. There were so many teen couples getting pregnant my year and my school was so small they just kind of slid it in when the only other class offered that hour was something most of us had already taken.

Keep in mind this was also a very rural town. Everything covered in the parenting class everyone already knew thanks to growing up on farms. There was absolutely nothing covering how to prevent all the pregnancies, just what to do once the baby was made.

Have to love small towns :/

 

[Perish the Thought]

My high school required us to take a course on social graces. That's half a year of learning how to stand up properly, and knowing which fork to use and when to use it (spoiler alert: it's not for stabbing yourself to get out of that class).

And that, kids, is the story of how I turned into a teenage edgelord.

 

[Ethan_ nestor]

All of them

 

[cry baby]

My school taught me to hug your bullies.

 

[Tskrian]

Honestly. Math. Like algebraic equations. Apparently it teaches problem solving but I don’t buy that shit.

 

[Simon_Hawk]

Teamwork. Totally overrated.

 

[Slinkyvboredom]

Health class. In theory, it should have been useful information, but the reality was that the material was horribly outdated and incorrect - not to mention tainted by our hyperconservative teacher's religious bias.

 

[Morlock]

Teamwork. Totally overrated.

Ah yes team work where you get the smartest or the loudest most self proclaimed "Alpha" person to do all the work and you all take credit for it. Or errr flunk because the Alpha might be loud and arrogant but is a dumbass.

 

[Morlock]

My high school required us to take a course on social graces. That's half a year of learning how to stand up properly, and knowing which fork to use and when to use it (spoiler alert: it's not for stabbing yourself to get out of that class).

And that, kids, is the story of how I turned into a teenage edgelord.

I would have loved that. It may seem stupid at the time but it actually does come in handy.

 

[KRIY]

Advanced mathematics. Lets keep it basic as hell folks, you'll forget almost everything you learned in mathematics every time you advance to another grade level

 

[Dark Enforcer]

The computer's class I took in elementary school. I didn't learn sh*t except how to play a Mario game to learn how to type without looking at the keyboard. I didn't even learn how to type with that game. It was until junior high that thanks to Mavis Beacon that I actually learned how to type without looking down.

 

[ButterflySuicide]

Our last two weeks in pre-calculus my Junior year we learned the formulas to solve a Rubik cube. So if I ever have about 12 hours to kill and decide I hate myself a lot I could do that... Even though I could probably do it in about half the time by guessing.