They get out of school and forget much/most of it anyway

It's to make sure they are parroting the narrative

the more important thing for history is finding that info.

Yeah, knowing how to learn history is key, not actually knowing history

Most people will forget it all and never look it up again

well that's like everything really, cept spelling I think.

Same with geography

Biggest life skill to learn, how to ask a question

spelling is memory and yah, geography is memory.

Most people can't correctly draw their own country, or the states within

though geography is a topic i never cared for, I know how to read a map for driveing but i don't know if any of that was form my geography books.

that was form going out and rideing with my dad in the truck, i'm still mad that i can't take riders until they are 18.

like how are you gonna get a kid interested in this work if you can't take them out till then?

I grew up reading the US atlas on road trips with my dad

Great way to learn

by then hopefully they are doing at least part time work that would make a OTR road trip not possible!

and yah, that should be a thing, like the comeing of age ritual.
"you are gonna drive all the way to the other coast and back again and only then will you be a man!"

Another problem with public education is that, since children have to sit for so long (not just in school), they don't have enough time left to do sports, and the opportunities to do sports are lacking because all that money goes into public education.

it's not even that long a trip really, a month tops.

Instead they sit in school, sit after school, and even sit during playtime

not much interest in sports myself, but haveing space for kids to play games of their own is important for sure.

Public schools are unironically run like prisons

also shop, teaching them how to turn a wrench and such.

Sports is super important, we really need to move around. Especially kids.

That needs to change

@ARockRaider good news-ish gen x parents are bringing back shop class

one could argue schools are run WORSE then prisons because the teachers can be rather crule sometimes.

though i only know that 2nd hand.

Yeah, and you know what's stupid? When the children misbehave, they get punished by being lectured - literally the worst form of teaching. So the punishment is *less education*

also, schools need to stop pushing collage, waste of money for almost all people.

Incentivise trade schools

that and make a proper list of what kind of jobs there really are out there or in a local area.

and I would REALLY like to find some testing that would tell me what kind of work i would like.

^

I want a job I can be good at

I already know i like driveing truck, but that job is very stressfull.

Same with being a guard

Economics, a class that should replace other classes, like the arts. Or reduce arts by 50% and instead teach some economics.
But if they teach economics then they'll have to risk that children understand taxes are theft. Can't have that.

this! all of this!

if there is one class that SHOULD be mandatory and could never be over tought it is Economics!

In some schools it becomes mandatory, but only later.