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This Month's Studio Rumble: Most Useless High School Subject

Tribester Opinions

I know it is a subject that is taught to increase reasoning and logic and the purpose of it is to prepare students to be able to utilize geometric concepts in the real world, but I just don't really ever tap into the Euclidean system of lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, circles, area, and volume in my every day life nor do I know many people who do. As such my vote for most useless subject goes to Geometry.
-- Tony Passero

For me I would have to say Spanish, or any foreign language unless you follow it up with a 2nd or 3rd year. I guess it's all relative as too what is considered useless. I think the point is to expose the students to different aspects as to where their future endeavors may lie.
-- Joe Kaput

Of all the classes I took in high school, band has to have been the most useless for me. I started playing the clarinet in fifth grade. I think what attracted me to the clarinet was the case that it came in. In hindsight, I probably really just wanted a briefcase. I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to just give up on something without giving it a fair try, so I continued to play the clarinet and be in the school band through middle school and into high school. Eventually, as academics and athletics became my main interests, the importance of being a clarinetist became less and less. I was allowed to drop out of the school band and, honestly, I've lived happily ever after.
-- Andy Owens

There really is not a "most useless" high school subject. Each is relative to the user. For instance, an art class is abysmally useless for a computer tech with no artistic skill or inclination, just as a journalism class is not exactly best fit for a up and coming biologist.

With that in mind, I think everyone hated gym class. Everyone. Its useless, I don't need to learn how to play dodgeball (its not that complicated - Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge), and running laps is not something that I am unable to do of my own volition. I understand physical activity is important, but its not a learning experience. This is also a good segway for my Mouse Trap.
-- Charles Koers

Home Economics - what a galactic waste of time. This class offers nothing except a shelter for underachievers and a false sense of security to those who refuse to pay attention to the daily activities at home. "You see Sally, that big box is a washing machine and this little box is soap... and these even smaller boxes in neat columns help make sure that your checks do not suddenly become more elastic." Put it all together and you can get an A for being ordinary. Awesome.
-- Mike Chorvat

I'm not sure if this counts as a subject, but it was an actual class in my high school. My senior year I took "Teacher Assistant" during third period (also the lunch period). I think I was supposed to help grade papers or come up with lesson plans, however I spent the whole period in the cafeteria with my friends. I'm still trying to figure out how I got an A in that one.
-- Carrie Pendergast