I often think about how many people I went to school with felt that high school was difficult. High school in America is a fucking joke. I understand that high school is difficult if you have a disability of some sort, and I even buy the cultural bias argument for standardized testing, but I went to high school in a lilly white suburb with lots of supposedly normative kids and some of them barely made it through graduation.
The American populace is chock full of idiots. Most of the people that even graduated high school here (which is not everyone) went on to never pick up another book again.
College too. I used to study in the business school beacuse it was new and the chairs were excellent. I’d frequently run into students doing the whole “Math is hard!” thing.
So I’d offer to help, super basic high school algebra type stuff.
I’d explain it and they’d go “Wow! You’re smart! What classes are you taking here?”
“Oh, I’m an English major, I’m just here because the chairs don’t suck.”
I often think about how many people I went to school with felt that high school was difficult. High school in America is a fucking joke. I understand that high school is difficult if you have a disability of some sort, and I even buy the cultural bias argument for standardized testing, but I went to high school in a lilly white suburb with lots of supposedly normative kids and some of them barely made it through graduation.
The American populace is chock full of idiots. Most of the people that even graduated high school here (which is not everyone) went on to never pick up another book again.
College too. I used to study in the business school beacuse it was new and the chairs were excellent. I’d frequently run into students doing the whole “Math is hard!” thing.
So I’d offer to help, super basic high school algebra type stuff.
I’d explain it and they’d go “Wow! You’re smart! What classes are you taking here?”
“Oh, I’m an English major, I’m just here because the chairs don’t suck.”
I mean… you were at the business college. You think maybe your sample is poisoned?
That’s what I was thinking… “These are the MBA students?” Followed by “Man, I picked the wrong major…”
At least when I was in school, Business Majors were for the kids who couldn’t hack it in a STEM degree.
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