FOH Shower Thoughts

Bandwagon said:

Core curriculums vs "electives"

In highschool, we had "core" classes that are required for graduation. Math, History, English, etc.

We had "electives" too. A certain number of elective credits are required to graduate, but not specific ones. Wood shop, cooking, sewing, robotics, metal fab, etc.

I think some of them are backwards, or at least the priority is wrong. I agree that most of the core classes need to be required in some way (ignoring the existence of bias in the lesson plans and versions of truth), but some of them do not need to take up nearly as much of the available learning time as they do. Especially considering that COOKING is one of the most basic life skills everyone should have and an embarrassing number of people nowadays have never even cooked a fucking egg.

Edit: I think that some sort of business/personal finance 101 class was an elective too, but I can't remember the name. Argue all you want on behalf of the other core classes and how much or little time they deserved, but cooking & a basic financial lesson should absofuckinglutely be part of the core curriculum.

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Art. You can remove art as one of the core classes.

At my high school we had a standard degree, an advanced degree, and an advanced with honors. the differences were that you took more science and art classes to get the advanced, and some of them had to be honors classes to get the advanced with honors seal. I had plenty of honors classes, all i was missing was another fucking art class. My councilor flat out refused to let me take any woodworking or auto shop classes for 3 years because I wouldn't take another fucking art class. she kept telling me i was 'too smart' for those classes. Somewhere around my junior year I had figured out that the extra seals would't even help me get into college. They didn't show up on the transcript and were applied to the diploma a month after graduation. They were basically just a feather in her cap. In my senior year she had the idea to let me take a set design class which was like a woodworking class for theater. By then i was so pissed at her that I refused. I wound up taking a ton of study halls periods where we just sat around and played hearts. I was lucky that she finally let me take an electronics class my senior year, but that was only because i told her I thought I wanted to go for an EE in college.

I don't hold many grudges, but that cunt ms mcloud actively tried to fuck me over for petty bullshit. Pretty much the only thing that could get me to a high school reunion would be if I knew she was going to be there and there would be alcohol.

In summation, fuck fine arts classes being a requirement.

Sylas said:

um what? What the fuck is this "councilor let you.." shit?

i'm not sure when you went to school or what district or whatever but holy fuck, if any person at all had one iota of input into what classes I took other than me that would of really rustled my jimmies.

I talked to a guidance councilor once in 6th grade when my mother passed away but never again in middle or high school and not a fucking soul on earth had any authority to tell you what classes you could or could not take.

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oh yeah. We got to choose our courses but it had to be signed off on by the counselor. Or councilor. Whichever is correct in this situation.

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Good old Bubb Rubb.

I can't count the number of times my coworker and I quoted that fucking legend. "It's only in the mornin'. Should be up cookin' breakfast or somethin'."

"Wooo woooo!"

Bandwagon said:

They should remake Roots, but a fat-positive version.

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