What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?
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holy crap a sysadmin class? that is wild, son. i must be an old man
I went to a trades school which offered IT computer systems as a 2 year diploma. Fast track to a job back in the early 2010s. That path would never get you into IT today lol
The specific class I mentioned was windows system administration
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"Those bullies will be working at a gas station whole you'll be the boss!"
haha. yea...
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There is no such thing called umami.
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can you be more specific
What do you want more? This is pretty specific, what was taught to them about gender and sexuality, in particular that gender only exists in two forms, and no mention outside of heterosexuality. Pretty sure we all had a similar experience in school about these subjects
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Mantle convection as a primary driver of tectonic plate movement
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Haven't seen anybody post this but how gender and sexuality is, schools are so fucking about straight mom and dad only relationship and nothing else. Man and wife bullshit when there's infinite amounts of gender and sexuality and diversity out there. Fuck I hate Amerikkka
I am from germany. Sex ed is not just manditory but also part of normal lessons all two years. The body, genetics, sex itself and how a baby is made and how protection and STDs work and which are there next to condom and pill
Funnily enought i wasnt present the whole male sex ed part so idk if they talked about queernes. Being in a psychiatric hospital they only had german, math, english, classes so litterly only the essentials
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was seen as just one of several possible theories, rather than accepted fact.
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There is no such thing called umami.
Well there is, its just not a flavor like salty, its a way of taste from what i learned. Idk how to discribe it myself
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cursive sucks ass. im not reading that garbage
I cant even read my own cursive from back then.
Now i know how my teachers felt and why they constantly told me i write unreadablely. Used to be able to read it fluently lol
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That CO2 makes up 0.03% of the atmosphere.
But it was true then.When was that?
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Well there is, its just not a flavor like salty, its a way of taste from what i learned. Idk how to discribe it myself
You can describe it as umami
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I dont remember anything that was proven false.
I remember i butted heads with my history teachers constantly. Having history as my hyperfocus of my autism, and hyperactive talking from adhd, i had to correct one teacher a lot.Saying the classic "the HRE was neither holy nore roman nore an empire" but nobody called it that back then. It was known as just "the empire". And the "holy" part was due to shenanigans with the pope, and it defenetly was an empire in the sense of span. Yes everything was autanomouse, but it was an empire by size of who swears loyalty.
I learned more that the things i back then saw as useless and "why are we being tought that" is actually really important.
Example: text analysis if grammer, way of phrasing things, wether the autor clearly frames things threw choice of words, if it is a story, news article or comment -
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I was chucked into Christian school.
So... a lot of it.
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Sure. You're very funny.
Religious schools exist!
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cursive sucks ass. im not reading that garbage
I actually use it myself sometimes when taking notes. It's just the natural way to write for me. It's faster and more space effective.
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That's funny. I had a teacher do something like this but in the other direction. All the questions had answers that pretty much forced you right into the blue. Shit like "do you think homeless people should be given assistance or should homeless people be shot and dumped into the sea?" Or "I think everyone deserves to find love vs gay people are the spawn of Satan".
It is worth noting that I went to a very left leaning and notoriously "hippy" private school (against my will). I eventually managed to get expelled for smoking weed and not snitching on all my friends.
I don't think teachers really should be pushing their political or religious agendas no matter what. School is for learning core basics in various categories.
n many countries, including the United states, the core studies are taught through the end of Junior High School. And that's when mandatory education ends. So you should expect to see a lot more variety in high school.
As a teacher myself, I don't try to tell students what to believe, but I certainly don't run away from talking about political issues. If you're teaching English or science or social studies or foreign language, and you are working hard to avoid politics, you're doing your students a disservice.
For example, suppose you're teaching high school economics right now. Would you honestly not talk about the Trump tariffs? That would be the most ludicrous idea imaginable. Clearly the students want to know what's going on, they hear it on TV, they read it in the newspaper, and you're the expert so you should be telling them what's going on. Right? And if you're going to talk about them, you're probably going to be critical of them with good reason.
But anyway, I've heard people express views similar to yours over the years, and essentially many people with that view think that school could be or should be talked entirely by mindless robots. I don't think that's a great way to teach kids, I'm happy I didn't grow up in such a system, but if that's what you want then more power to you.
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I would say "cursive is how adults write, you'll need to know it", but that wasn't true then either.
Cursive is such a bad way to write. I used to have to decipher sloppy cursive notes on how to check airplane fixtures. I even learned it in school!
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I learned that it’s not ok to be intelligent but completely incapable of remembering to do things of remembering the things that the teachers thought it was important for me to remember.
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I was chucked into Christian school.
So... a lot of it.
*everything
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Supersize me was fake and the almonds are not a useless byproduct of evolution.
