Pointless classes that have absolutely no impact on your life... Page 2

Started by Supreme Dirt January 25th, 2008 8:22 AM
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I think that learning a foreign language as a requirement for graduation is pointless. However I think it should be offered as an elective.
Especially when the only options are Spanish, French and Italian and one is trying to learn Japanese.
Seriously, my Spanish class next term is gonna be a pain to deal with. I'm gonna get Spanish and Japanese confused constantly.
"El libro o leer" ("read a book" with Spanish words and a Japanese particle and layout.)
stuff like that

but honestly, there are lots of subjects that are deamed useless yet in reality, they're pretty interesting. History is cool because then you can learn more about life.

And gym isn't useless. Doing excercise every day helps keep you in shape, helps you lose weight, and helps you feel good. Trust me, I just recovered from a term without gym and it sucked. Now I cant wait to get back on that track or play some ping-pong.

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Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention Civics and Careers. What wastes of credits, I could have been taking something more worth my time :/ Although I do have to agree that Phys. Ed is pretty useless too. It was compulsory for me in Grade Nine, but now that I'm in Grade Ten I can kiss it goodbye forever. But I have to admit the Health portion is very important.

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German and Gym :x German because the school I'm transferring to next year doesn't offer it, so it doesn't make much sense for me to take it this year. Gym because... yeah, I haven't taken it since the 6th grade, and I don't feel like I'm missing much XD

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I'm taking English just because its a standard entry qualification to get into uni. So I sort of need it, but don't think I'll need it.

Last year I took sociology and psychology to fill in time. They were still a complete waste of time. I didn't agree with anything in the classes. They both generalized stereotypes and put people into categories and pretty much dictated what people felt and thought... which I'm completely against. Actually I'm against modern psychology as a whole - psychology needs a different approach, a more open-minded approach, than what it has now.

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Every class has no use in the real world. They do nothing to prepare you for real life.

I think lessons like French and and History are the most pointless. Unless you intend to go to live in France then that lesson is pointless. I find every lesson but English useless.

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I'll have to agree with PE. Taking it every so often is one thing - but when I was in middle school, they made people take it for 12 weeks every school year (out of 36 weeks). When I had just started there they apparently wanted us to take 24 weeks of it. Talk about wasted chances, I could've been taking other classes during some of that time I was taking PE. <_< I was so glad when I hit high school and found out I had to take only one PE class for only one year, and that was it.

But as for something that's personally useless to me - higher math classes, especially something like calculus (which I did take at one point). Since I'm studying art, the ability to solve long equations really doesn't help me much, and actually doesn't come up at all. :x So it'd just be a useless skill that I'd eventually forget...and...admittedly have mostly forgotten, ah ha.

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I loved Gym Class. ;_; It was fun to just have a break from classes and go play sports. I'm a History major so I take great offense to everyone calling History useless. >:[ How rude.
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Most of my subjects I'm taking will help me somewhat, seeing as I haven't decided on a career yet. But, subjects like Social Studies and Religious Education were classes were time was seriously wasted. It was mainly extra knowledge that I didn't really need to know.

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Programming... somehow learning a software application is the least original activity possible. The logic is fun, but not pointless implementation (at least I don't have any need of it).

Math is OKAY actually, because I like being able to make calculations and estimations about nature. Math helps that~!

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I speak spanish but I chose it to get an easy class. So thats mine. ^_^
Haha same here xD

Well for me I'd say History.Although it's nice to know your country's past,I don't think it really helps me get anywhere =\
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I take Latin, and although I'm a woamgANCIENTROME person, that probably won't help me much. Especially since I'm not going into any law or medical stuff. :D; I'm really just taking it out of personal interest and because Spanish is probably the most annoying language in the world and French is what everyone takes because the class is easy. D: Latin does look good on college applications though, or so I've heard.

I love love love Biology and Astronomy and some other sciences, but a lot of things we learn in science are pretty pointless. I don't care if it's an igneous sjfsfwehrewht rock with cleavage on one side and bird crap on the other, I look at it and I just see a rock! That's all normal people see! D:

P.E. Forcing kids into ugly clothes and making them play basketball isn't going to convince anyone to get fit. It's just going to make a lot of them mad.

Art matters a great difference to me, because that's what I'm going into.

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