Stuff you learned at school that has never been of any use.

[Wave2k]

I would say Algebra , but I just had to relearn all the crap from school and more to do a new certification at work aged 30.

It was painful and hated every minute of it, but it did still click from school.

Religious education has to be my no1 by far.
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[hellkat]

I didn't mind RE (or "Christian Living" as we were allowed to call it back then ). I quite liked finding my feet in terms of moral values, and it's enabled me to keep my own counsel nowadays that the Catholic faith has disappointed me so badly*.

At around age 13 or 14 I was smart enough to realise (and suggest to my friends) that when asked by the careers officer what we thought we wanted to do when we left school, that "I've been thinking I might like to become a nun" gave a good impression. How disappointed they were when we continued to be little shits and although we spent our lunchtime in the chapel, we were mostly doing forward rolls and giggling.





*Strangely, though, I've found myself drifting into churches lately, and I find the Catholic Mass oddly soothing. I never engage in it, I just sit at the back and listen to it, English and occasionally Latin.
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[Ste]

RE wasn't a waste of time as it was a nice break between lessons that were important. Plus I got told useful stuff like how I'm going to hell, the teacher was most pissed off that day. They'd probably go to prison for telling kids that today!

ICT was generally a waste of time due to knowing more than the teachers and ICT staff did. It was however very educational in how to find and exploit bugs in the system such as how to replace the colleges logo on the login screen for every computer in the college.

French was a waste of time. So was German and Spanish.

Overall, it's be easier to list the lessons which weren't a waste of time. Maths was never a waste of time, lots of it was fun.

[Skudd]

French, shout louder or show money, they will understand.
Stuff about a Baobab tree, that was in geography, Still get lost and need a sat nav.
Greek mythology, but the teacher did have a great set of tits and really hard nipples.
English Lit. I have read some good books since leaving school that they wouldn't have had on the curriculum, Brecht comes to mind. My teacher thought I needed help due to the stories I wrote, all based on songs from Bowie, Iggy Pop, Queen and the like.
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[bamt]

The RE teacher at our school had to leave. Something to do with being caught whilst attempting an armed robbery at a post office.

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[Rogerborg]

[Alan1986]

Only thing I remember about religious education was drawing a knob on jesus and getting thrown out of class,

Use to draw knobs on lots of pictures for some reason
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[pepperami]

I went to school in the 70's and a disinterested system.
The disinterested school system taught me very very little.
At my school they had the subject "Home Economics" ?, a great little lesson to waste time and learn how to make an apple pie
That's really been a massive help in my adult life

I taught myself English and Maths after leaving school.
I was 30 years old before I could do joined up handwriting.

The University of Life taught me so much more.
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[Skudd]

In our school you had to back your books with plastic/wall paper, wrapping paper. Teachers were note amused with me using bog roll.

When I had little remarks in red in my books I used to add my own, reasons for poor results were normally due to poor teaching of the subjects.
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[hellkat]

At my school, it was just called Cooking

If you weren't doing Cooking, you were doing Sewing.
You didn't have any choice.
You did both. When you were told.
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[P.]

Anything IT related was a massive waste of my time and theirs. I got 2 U's in IT.

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[hellkat]

I.T. wasn't even invented when I was at school.
We had typewriters, and even then they were OLD ones with those really hard-spring keys, you had to really poke at the keys to get them to work.

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The typing teacher had an IBM Selectric with a golf-ball, we all thought that was the coolest thing going.

When I was in third form (equivalent I suppose of year 10?) for my end of year exam in typing, I got 11% ... my mother had to ask really nicely for them to keep me in, cos I was doing shorthand as well, and I had to work really hard the next year to get better results.

That was the same year my science grade for "electricity" was an E (or was it an F? ) ... cos it was the lowest grade they could give
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[Andy_Pagin]

Absolutely everything I learned in A-Level Pure and Applied Maths and physics. And I'm a professional analyst/programmer! With hindsight I wish I'd done psychology, history and economics instead.
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[hellkat]

I only managed a skirt.
And even that was pretty shoddy.
Somehow I managed to blag my way out of the class, can't remember how, now. Possibly hockey or library duty (one of the few worthwhile time wasting exercises, I could get away with reading all afternoon, I taught myself the Dewey system in my spare time).

#geek

Forgotten it now, o'course, but at the time, until I was about 23, I could tell you where any sorta non-fiction book was.
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[Alpineandy]

I never did any 'Home Economics'.
I can't remember what I did instead.
I'm a decent cook on the hob but I've never been comfortable using an oven.
If i'd done the class then maybe I'd have been a bit more confident with using it...

I hated RE but we did have a laugh.
I'm pretty sure the teacher was past retirement age, had poor hearing, was bad with names, a squint and an arthritic index finger (seriously!).
When he had a go at you it looked like he was looking at the person to your left but his finger pointed at the person to your right.
We taunted him rotten, but I guess we were just testing his faith in his imaginary friend...

This was mid-70s
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

I liked home economics, I can use a sewing machine and make flapjacks.

P.E. was the biggest waste of time. If you didn't start with any semblance of skill, the teachers weren't interested in showing you the basics. Being paired up in tennis with someone who could play doesn't generate interest when you constantly score zero without knowing how the game is scored.
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