>Do well in school>Think I'm really smart>Look into curricula of the past>Turns out I'm not that smart, it's just that public education has been dumbed down to the point that anyone of reasonable intelligence will soar above expectations
>>82799845>curricula>>82799845>education
>>82799845People now say that people in the past were dumb because they often dropped out after 8th grade to work, but what they don't realize is that those eighth graders were learning what you have to take advanced classes in high school to learn now. They were studying calculus and Shakespeare then going home to work on the farm.
>>82799845You'll certainly see more of this in the 'adult world' and when you enter the work force. Not a day goes by where I don't ask myself how the fuck certain coworkers manage to dress themselves or even still have a job.
>>82799845Elementary schoolers used to learn financial management, now the majority of college graduates don't understand how compound interest works.
Public education has been replaced with drilling "white people bad" into kids' heads day in and day out. >Sorry kids, you can't learn how to do taxes, we have to do another unit on the "trail of tears" or the Holocaust for the billionth time
>>82799888nice trips. I had the kind-of-similar problem where I did really well in school and thought I was smart, but I realized I wasn't, I was just good at school. Things like figuring out from the syllabus and homework what the exam questions were likely to be and knowing that was going to be the answer. Then I got to the "real world" where you're just expected to figure stuff out independently without being given a study guide or told what to work on, and I completely shit the bed. >>82799927I remember reading that some large majority of the population can't figure out tax brackets.
American education fucking sucks today. Teachers don't give a shit, students don't give a shit, the curriculum is dumbed down, the no child left behind crap has also done immeasurable damage to the school system as well. Consequences have to be made if you refuse to learn/do the work.
It used to be too hard. You had to be bright to earn all your credits and teachers flunk whoever they wanted. But you didn't have to graduate. Picture me getting put to sleep for not enough good math and genetic science at 105IQ requirements. A system designed for the elite and for the gifted is not good for public image of society. Let us fly. I make them fry for failing nonretards because euthanasia. Boo clue or with nonsense we screw NOT.
>>82799845After schools were desegregated, blacks couldn't pass classes in white schools. It would've looked bad if none of the black students graduated, so schools had to dumb down their material so that it didn't look like they were discriminating. And blacks still can't pass the dumbed down classes.
>>82800292I kinda envy how easy american schools are for this reason, I never gave a shit about school.
>>82800046The worst part is that leftists not only pretend this isn't the case, but also pretend that public school is actually "pro-white" propaganda or whatever.
>>82799877What math did they learn after calculus? Maybe differential equations and advanced probability like the stuff you'd need for finance. I can't imagine them learning real analysis in high school.
>>82799927shit I remember having to make a monthly budget using x number of dollars and store ads in like 3rd-4th grade back in the 90s. I like most kids just played around instead of doing it properly. I would imagine they don't do that anymore.
>>82799877To be fair, you can study Shakespeare at different depths. It's more likely those eight graders were going through it at a No Fear Shakespeare level.
>>82801081I remembering covering Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade and getting the other 'classics' the rest of the years (Frankenstein, To kill a mockingbird, Huck Finn, Beowulf, Catcher in the Rye) so it's not like they aren't taught any more, though the assignments were likely dumbed down to what those same assignments would have been in the past.
They werent smarter they just talked different back then. Like book smart yes maybe but not street smart.
>>82801133lol no, they were quite street smart because their streets were dangerous as fuck. No one had phones and a lot of places had no police, add in witnesses were the only real way to catch someone so criminals had an incentive to kill to stay on the street. You had to be smart and keep your head on a swivel to survive.Even taking criminals there also was not a lot of legal protection from scams and shit, if you fell for one that was it your money was gone, nothing anyone can do. Now you at least have a chance of suing or getting your money back.
