What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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The D.A.R.E. program.
We congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.
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There are 10 Commandments.
No - there's 14.
613 mitzvot! ± a couple hundred, depending on whether you're a Kohen, live in Israel, if the Temple has been rebuilt, or are the first-century sage Hillel (in which case there's one mitzvah and 612 articles of commentary.)
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It's less that I don't want them mentioning anything that connects to politics and it's more about wanting them to just present information without any additional spin.
So "Trump has put tarrifs on x countries for x amount" vs "Trump has stupidly put x tarrifs on x countries because he's a hateful tyrant" or whatever. I think you get what I'm trying to say.
I have absolutely no problem with talking about politics as it's pretty much impossible to mention anything in history without it, but it can be done so in very different ways. I would prefer that teachers remain as neutral as they can while presenting only factual information on whatever political topics comes up.
Kinda how I wish the news would go back to facts first reporting as opposed to this current "rush the story out before we fact check anything and make the headline as polarizing as we can to generate maximum clicks. Who cares if we have to issue a correction later on page 97 in .5 size font (or at all) we just want clicks!" Type of "news" we have now.
I blame Reagan.
Political alignment tests have a serious case of intentional sampling bias
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I was taught that Jupiter had 17 moons, Saturn has 12 and Pluto has 1. Many more have been discovered since.
Then there's the whole "different areas on your tongue taste different flavors." Like you only taste sweet with the tip of your tongue, the middle tastes salty, etc. I remember being given various substances by my fifth grade teacher like sugar, coffee, lemon juice, table salt etc. and we tried putting them on different areas of our tongues and we were like "...no, we taste everything everywhere."
Were you guys eating coffee grounds in your 5th grade science class? Your next teacher either hated it because you guys were bouncing off the walls or loved it because you were all wide awake and paying attention.
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By the time I was in school the Bohr model was already proven inaccurate, but was taught anyway because the orbital model is too esoteric for teenagers.
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I remember getting detention on first grade for telling my classmate that a whale had beached here in finland. It happened, it was on the news. Same thing again after I told my classmate about some asteroid that is going to kill us all. On 6th grade the whole class was given detention for not having music books with us because the teachers had decided to change the schedule that morning.
Yeah, a lot of people seem to become teachers because they like being in a room full of people who won't question them.
That particular teacher in the story was also let go at the end of the year, though, related to her treatment of students. It was kind of dramatic.
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In my college Econ 101 class I was taught that "economic liberalism" would lead to political liberalism. I knew that was a myth back then, but my professors insisted. Twenty years later we've got economic nationalism and political fascism taking over everywhere.
That was also a "theory" that "predicted" that China would go politically liberal
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That I was a republican. The teacher gave out this political alignment quiz that was incredibly biased asking things like "do you like lower taxes or higher taxes?" and "do you like more freedom or less freedom?" All the questions basically lead you to the same answers. So the entire class basically had the same result.
This was in middle school so I wasn't even politically engaged yet. I didn't realize how crazy this was until years later.
There's essentially no difference between reps and dems tbh
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Funny? Do you think religious schools don't exist?
Please, it's only necessary to think about it seriously for a single moment to realize that a school where children are taught "that the earth is 6000 years old" obviously doesn't exist.
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Please, it's only necessary to think about it seriously for a single moment to realize that a school where children are taught "that the earth is 6000 years old" obviously doesn't exist.
Shouldn't exist. That's different.
Their belief system is based on an a being that can't be sense that banished people to infinite torment for following instincts that he designed them with, then sent part of himself to be tortured and killed as a sacrifice to make up for a curse he put on them, but only if you it was necessary. A ridiculous age of the earth is hardly the craziest thing schools like this teach.
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It was false then but my seventh and eighth grade science teacher told us that blood was blue. My mom was a nurse so I knew that it was bullshit but was definitely confused because he was my science teacher.
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That blood is actually blue until it gets in contact with air
I remember my science teacher in seventh grade singing this and just being very confused because my mother who was a nurse said it was just a dark red.
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That fluoride and vaccines are bad for you… tbh, I only believed it for 2-3 weeks until I did my own research, but it was a frightening clarification. Didn’t believe that teacher a single word after that.
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That fluoride and vaccines are bad for you… tbh, I only believed it for 2-3 weeks until I did my own research, but it was a frightening clarification. Didn’t believe that teacher a single word after that.
I think people underestimate the problems with teeth hygiene. It can cause dimensia, so teeth should be brushed before you eat, though avoid mouth wash.
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I think people underestimate the problems with teeth hygiene. It can cause dimensia, so teeth should be brushed before you eat, though avoid mouth wash.
And don’t forget to floss! As soon as I learned that my gums don‘t bleed because of the metal thing, but because food between my teeth decays and that decaying decays my gums, turning it all into poop, I started to floss every second day.
Why should I avoid mouth wash though? My routine is floss - mouth wash - brushing
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We congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs.
I'm addicted to dopamine, and I'll take any drug I can to get more of it.
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The moon was spun out of the same stuff as the earth. That was fact in the early years of my education. A few years later there were multiple theories: co development, captured a wandering planetoid, the Thea impact, and a fourth one I can’t remember but I think it was something dumb like planetary mitosis. By the time I graduated the Thea impact was considered the only viable theory.
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Trickle down economics are an effective way to redistribute wealth
Did we conclude that, I thought its still heavily debated.
Some argue in the 50s and 60s the US was spending Europe's gold to build highways and infrastructure, gifting Americans the wealth with a continuation of the new deal, they then defaulted in 1971 as inflation eroded foreign debt owed.
They had much of Europe's gold due to WWII.
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And don’t forget to floss! As soon as I learned that my gums don‘t bleed because of the metal thing, but because food between my teeth decays and that decaying decays my gums, turning it all into poop, I started to floss every second day.
Why should I avoid mouth wash though? My routine is floss - mouth wash - brushing
Just the cancer causing it does. I'd read a study on it one time, I believe it's accurate.
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I think people underestimate the problems with teeth hygiene. It can cause dimensia, so teeth should be brushed before you eat, though avoid mouth wash.
