They don’t even teach civics, or how to do taxes. And there’s a constant push from a vocal minority to do less and teach young earth creationism. It’s very stupid here.
Object@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
You guys don’t learn probabilities??
db2@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Gotta disagree. In my economics/government (civics) class back in the 90s (they split it, one semester is one, one semester is the other for senior social studies) in April you did taxes.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Taxes is a combination of a 3rd grade reading level and 3rd grade arithmetic. It literally directs you where to get the values for each box and the most complicated math you have to do is basic addition, subtraction, or multiplication.
Teaching a person how to fill out a 1040 is a complete waste of time especially considering they likely won’t need to fill one out for several years and teaching people all the obscure possible forms is pointless as the tax code changes and it’s only applicable to a small fraction of the class and likely not for 5+ years
db2@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I was going to respond by then I checked your overview. You’re a dick. Blocked.
ttyybb@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Sometimes I wonder if the problem isn’t the content we cover, but the content people remember. Then again it could just be different districts.