Dumbest/most useless classes you've taken

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English II - couldn't get into Honors due a schedule conflict, so I was stuck with a boring, hippie-like teacher in a class about nothing. I only recall 3 major writing assignments and one of them was the final. However, there were also bullshit nature journal assignments where you would have to pick a natural place and fill 2 notebook pages with your observations.

Junior Theology semester 2 - extra boring teacher that completely drained my desire to learn, didn't help that he enjoyed garbage musicians like Bono and Alanis Morissette. One test was unusually difficult, so much so that even a straight-A student I was friends with got a B on it.
 
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When I had psychology back in high school the teacher was absent a good third of the lessons. And on the lessons we did have we learned nothing, mostly because she couldn't go one lesson without cancelling whatever assignment we were working on and changing the topic completely. We had one test during the whole year and pretty much everyone (including me) failed it, yet everyone except for two students still got a B.

We also had the same teacher in P.E and she did the same thing there.
 
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Years ago I was a non-traditional college student at 25. Two classes drove me up the damn wall. Public Speaking which was "stand in front of the class and bullshit" and Engineering Design which was "make believe you work at a fictional company". As a dude who still had his damn workboots on and walked into that pointless shit that was supposed to teach you "how it works in the real world" it got on my nerves. The worst part is that they ate up so much time. You wouldn't think that shit would have lots of homework but it did.

One day while walking to one of these classes I had an epiphany. That college wasn't there to teach you valuable skills. They could bang out what you needed to know in a couple years if that was the case. It was there to keep you distracted and tied down while they soaked up your student loan money. I dropped out and went back to my old trucking job shortly after and didn't look back.
 
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Sociology- You know the stereotype back in 2016 that teachers were trying to brainwash everyone to think all white people were inherently evil and all that shit? Yeah, that was that class, they literally tried to turn the class of students of different races against the white ones.
It didn't work but holy fuck I learned almost nothing from that class because the vast majority of it was "white man bad, capitalism bad, etc" and the dude saying this was an old white gay man who never shut up about how socialism was great.
I think if the teacher wasn't an old, rich white man then it might have worked but this moron had such little self-awareness to not realize he himself was considered evil by that logic. He was so much of a sped that he even said that "jesus was a socialist," in a last-ditch effort for him to convince the class that socialism was great.
I had to take this class and so did everyone else to get out AA degrees but holy fuck it was like seeing a cartoon parody of sjws come to life.

Student Intro- A class also made so the college can suck more money out of you for a class you don't need but have to do for your degree. It literally was just a personality test the class. Are you an introvert? How does your astrology relate to you? It was the biggest waste of time I ever had to do and I am still pissed to this day I had to pay money to do shit that 16 year old girls on buzzfeed do in thier spare time for free everyday
 
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NOT Sword Fighter Super said:
Any foriegn language classes in high school.

I took at least four years of Spanish and I remember about as much as you'd learn from a Sesame Street episide.
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This reminds me, I took fucking Latin due to pursuing a medical career. Honors Latin III was pretty terrible, the teacher was different from my first 2 Latin classes and it was much more difficult.
 
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As I mentioned in another thread recently taking Chemistry in high school was a total waste. Also, Physics. Our CADD class was taught by an old guy who I guess was just tired of teaching so as long as we kept quiet he just let us watch movies or do our homework from other classes. I had to reread the same book three times in two different grades (yep, my 4th grade teacher made the class reread a book because she didn't believe any of us read it, despite taking tests and quizzes after each chapter and when we had to reread it for 7th grade I remembered the book perfectly from memory, which my reading group liked because I knew all the answers, lol.)

And no joke, in 4th grade, we had to learn how to clean cast iron pans with lye. I consider that the most useless thing I ever learned in school as a whole.
 
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Chan Fan said:
As I mentioned in another thread recently taking Chemistry in high school was a total waste.
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Oh God, my high school chemistry teacher was the fucking worst. We only got through about half the curriculum due to there being so many “shadows” from elementary schools, and every time one showed up to the class, he would do the same 2 experiments. We actually had fucking summer reading for a chemistry class (The Disappearing Spoon is the most boring book I’ve ever read, for the record), but he never actually gave the test.
 
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I took a macroeconomics class that was super pozzed. It had a mandatory attendance policy in the beginning but the professor made a special exemption for me because I kept arguing with her in class (e.g. the really bad argument was the one about unpaid woman's labor, which is conceptually a crock of shit.)
 
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Indigenous Studies. I'm not knocking the class as a whole, or even disputing that Canadian social work students should take it but like- I am Native and ended up correcting the prof much of the time. (No, the local tribes never did potlatches, etc.)

Criminology- taught by a man who only ever used his own books and research. Insisted that we only use sources that he used. Dude ended up fired while on tenure for conflict of interest.

Bonus one: I took secretarial classes to have that to fall back on, and we had a two week course just on Microsoft Outlook. As someone who has used outlook on many jobs, I skipped class and got 100% on the final because I'm not exceptional.
 
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The public speaking course I had to take was taught by a retard who didn't have a sense of humor. I was really engaging and got the class to laugh a few times on my first speech, but got reprimanded for it, saying I'm way too "off the wall", and my latter two were dull as hell because I was going through some shit at the time and just wanted to pass the class and get it over with.

Like you could just look at the guy and see him getting pissed while the rest of the class liked my first speech. Fuck that teacher.
 
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