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• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can agree with that to a certain extent, but how is math not general? How is understanding characters from a book not general?

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how is math not general? How is understanding characters from a book not general?

    The general math and reading skills I learned stopped at 8th grade.

    I didn’t need to write a 10 page paper on 3D trig for general math. Nor how to transpose a matrix.

    I didn’t need to learn about, well actually in English I didn’t learn anything, we just kept doing the same imagery fan theorizing from 8th grade to graduation.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t need to write a 10 page paper on 3D trig for general math. Nor how to transpose a matrix.

      I don’t think that’s what most people learn in terms of math. If you’re not going to college you probably don’t need trig or calc, but a basic understanding of algebra and geometry is useful IMO.

      we just kept doing the same imagery fan theorizing from 8th grade to graduation.

      Sounds like a problem with a shitty school or poor teachers, rather than a defect of English lit education in general.

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      • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        All the stuff I mentioned above is written into Common Core standards.

        A significant share of people finish common core curriculum long before graduating. That’s why AP, IB, and other advanced courses exist.

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    • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t need to learn about, well actually in English I didn’t learn anything

      I found why you think school doesn’t teach things that school definitely teaches.

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      • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Learn anything past 8th grade yeah. I took as advanced courses as were offered, but it didn’t teach anything new. Just a hire burden of homework. (That’s largely what IB classes were)

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