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To be fair, these are very different skill sets. To this date, I've yet to have an urgent need to get the area under a curve.

FreeTaxUSA takes care of calculating my taxes. It only tells me well after I have purchased something in telling me what kind of records I should keep if I want to claim that thing for a deduction.

I could have used the latter more than calculus.

Taxes don't require even High School level Math, much less something like trigonometry or high-level algebra.

On the other hand, personal finance should absolutely be mandatory in schools.

Instead they taught us how to use graphing calculators to draw shapes and lines

A skill I only later used when developing a game jam engine using c++ for the windows terminal

When I was in 3rd grade, I had a teacher who did a week-long lesson about recognizing propoganda. She talked about how talking or displaying something a certain way can alter how you think about it.

Looking back, this short propoganda course for 3rd graders wasn't in any official lesson plan, wasn't in a textbook, and may not have been on the up-and-up with the school.

I've had a long ongoing rant/debate (not really a debate because we all pretty much agree with each other), that logic, and critical thinking should be the focus of earlier education. Sure, focus on the skills everyone needs, like writing and such, but when you get to highschool, we should be focusing more on core logic and critical thinking skills.

Teach a person a thing, and they'll know it... maybe. Teach someone to think, and they'll be able to figure out anything.

There’s a whole culture in America celebrating carelessness, doing poorly in school, and idolizing people who got successful doing nothing except breaking the rules

People are stupid because they didn't (and weren't forced to) learn in these classes.

If these classes aren't required then we would have an Idiocracy (even more so than what we currently have)

Well said.

They don't work on evidence. They work on vibes. They believe what they believe because they want to, not because it makes sense.

This is the big one. They start with a conclusion then go on a scavenger hunt for anything that agrees with it. And as we all know, you can find anything on the Internet.

And where a more reasonable person might see how hard it is to find a reputable source that supports your claim and deduce that maybe the information isn't out there because the theory is wrong... instead these people run to the conclusion of "if the information isn't readily available out there to support my idea, it's because it's being suppressed in a big conspiracy!".

These are usually the same people for whom the government is somehow both completely inept, bumbling, and stupid while also being capable of carrying out the most widespread, comprehensive, flawless conspiracy ever imagined.

They've graduated and now have professional misinformation degree.

~~Here is their graduation project: https://www.yahoo.com/video/resurfaced-reddit-clip-shows-flat-003114234.html (found random article on the web)~~

Here is their graduation project: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/v8q0o7/flatearther_accidentally_proves_the_earth_is/

Clearly the preferred lexicon is "ur"

And it doesn't stop at high school. A Bachelor's in a specific field is only partly about the facts and concepts, and the rest is about how to research and evaluate sources in that field. Does someone with a Bachelor's in Computer Science know how to implement Shellsort right off the bat from memory? Not unless they did it in a whiteboard interview, and fuck those things. No, they know how to look it up and implement it in a specific language, and can probably figure out its big-O complexity.

Knowing what a good source looks like is a skill, and must be learned.

Oh they definitely need it