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Because school is boring, that's why.
Most people don't need to learn beyond the fourth grade, especially because calculators and now GPT exist for instant answers.
And I say this as someone who wasted his time all the way up to a Master's degree just to show society I too followed the beaten path. It's time I'll never get back.
Good god, if you went through an entire education and don't realize how fucked of a take that is I don't know what to say. Go try again at a different school maybe?
It's not a take, it's how children (and adults, frankly) feel about school. It's not great at making you a capable adult.
Do you know how useful my two diplomas were to get a job? Nothing. Zero. Zilch. None of the theories I learned were useful, neither on the job nor for their own sake.
As for middle school, exactly what did you learn that you think is so useful for daily life? I'd happily replace learning "how to discover x in n dimensions" with basic financial literacy, for example.
The latter years of the school system are quite literally a waste of time. The useful stuff you learn before high school.
Lmao. You think kids are going to be any more interested and pay more attention in a financial literacy course than they are about arbitrary math problems. I have some bad news for you about finance. It's full of math.
Except that personal finance (which of what I'm referring to) is mostly arithmetic, while high school (and a good chunk of middle school) math is mostly algebra.
The moment letters come into the equation (no pun intended) is when you start to lose me. And its usefulness on a day-to-day basis.
Sorry but financial literacy requires more than 5+5. And if you can't understand the concept of a variable there are more problems then the course work here.