Ali Kat

**********Memorizing the states is bad enough. The school Cameron attended
required
the seventh graders to memorize all the countries of AFRICA!

And the point is....?

~Kelly**************

I never understood this - especially since when I was forced to do it, everything changed in a couple year span. You are forced to memorize Russia, then it becomes the USSR (or vice versa - don't remeber now!!) Anyways... I learned a lot about England, Ireland, Rome, the Middle East and upper Africa as a kid because I WANTED to learn - nothing anyone made me do, but all stuff I looked up and researched myself because of my interests in Biblical history, mythology, and territorial wars.




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Nisha

SO, what was the dumbest thing you think you had to learn in school?
For me, I think it was the whole how to diagram all of the parts of
speech in a sentence. I was really good at it, but I still don't know
what purpose it served to be able to put things on a weird little
line. LOL
Nisha


--- In [email protected], Ali Kat
<sweetgypsiedncer@y...> wrote:
> I never understood this - especially since when I was forced to do
it, everything changed in a couple year span. You are forced to
memorize Russia, then it becomes the USSR (or vice versa - don't
remeber now!!) Anyways... I learned a lot about England, Ireland,
Rome, the Middle East and upper Africa as a kid because I WANTED to
learn - nothing anyone made me do, but all stuff I looked up and
researched myself because of my interests in Biblical history,
mythology, and territorial wars.

Sylvia Toyama

Without a doubt it was FOIL factoring in Algebra. I'm pretty sure it was a math formula invented just to keep the students who didn't get traditional math busy. As a side effect, it made us feel stupid, guaranteeing there would always be a need for teacher for slow math.

Syl

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