AI and indoctrination?
I saw an English teachers video where she was annoyed that her students used AI to generate paragraphs required for the homework.
As someone who LOVED English class, it was my favorite subject since it involved mostly reading, I don't care when students use AI to generate stuff for any class that needs a 5 page essay.
Schools need to teach more important things like finance/accounting/taxes, vehicle/mechanics/electrics, computer/data. We had to write so many 5 page essays when I was in school, and a huge 10 page essay in senior year. When I graduated I didn't know how to do my taxes, what a 401K was, how to change a tire, how to budget, survival skills, first aid, etc. A survival/first aid class would have been a better science class than learning about the genome of a fox.
As the meme says, "I'm so glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do my taxes, it's really come in handy this parallelogram season." Kids spend 8 hours a day in school, 5 days a week, to learn mostly filler knowledge they won't remember. Oh wait, they learn to sit still and shut up, or be punished. They learn the 40 hour work week early.
Indoctrination at it's finest.
What do you remember from any under 18 school classes that you still use today? Besides the basics: spelling, simple math (plus, minus, multiply, divide).
Geometry and such are useful to architects, of course, but not in high school. Stuff like that (in my opinion) is for college courses or skilled trade courses. Small samples of these courses are good, to see if a student even has an interest in the subject outside of high school. But that should be a one semester (3 month) type thing. Pretty sure I had two years of it (geometry 1 and geometry 2)....FOR WHAT? I remember ZERO from it.
As someone who LOVED English class, it was my favorite subject since it involved mostly reading, I don't care when students use AI to generate stuff for any class that needs a 5 page essay.
Schools need to teach more important things like finance/accounting/taxes, vehicle/mechanics/electrics, computer/data. We had to write so many 5 page essays when I was in school, and a huge 10 page essay in senior year. When I graduated I didn't know how to do my taxes, what a 401K was, how to change a tire, how to budget, survival skills, first aid, etc. A survival/first aid class would have been a better science class than learning about the genome of a fox.
As the meme says, "I'm so glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do my taxes, it's really come in handy this parallelogram season." Kids spend 8 hours a day in school, 5 days a week, to learn mostly filler knowledge they won't remember. Oh wait, they learn to sit still and shut up, or be punished. They learn the 40 hour work week early.
Indoctrination at it's finest.
What do you remember from any under 18 school classes that you still use today? Besides the basics: spelling, simple math (plus, minus, multiply, divide).
Geometry and such are useful to architects, of course, but not in high school. Stuff like that (in my opinion) is for college courses or skilled trade courses. Small samples of these courses are good, to see if a student even has an interest in the subject outside of high school. But that should be a one semester (3 month) type thing. Pretty sure I had two years of it (geometry 1 and geometry 2)....FOR WHAT? I remember ZERO from it.
