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.
Object@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You guys don’t learn probabilities??
ttyybb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I was going to respond by then I checked your overview. You’re a dick. Blocked.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months 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.