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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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You guys don't learn probabilities??
90% of the time we do, but sadly 32% of us don't because they're lazy and refuse to give 110% at school. 💯
They don't even teach civics, or how to do taxes. And there's a constant push from a vocal minority to do less and teach young earth creationism. It's very stupid here.
Taxes is a combination of a 3rd grade reading level and 3rd grade arithmetic. It literally directs you where to get the values for each box and the most complicated math you have to do is basic addition, subtraction, or multiplication.
Teaching a person how to fill out a 1040 is a complete waste of time especially considering they likely won’t need to fill one out for several years and teaching people all the obscure possible forms is pointless as the tax code changes and it’s only applicable to a small fraction of the class and likely not for 5+ years
I was going to respond by then I checked your overview. You're a dick. Blocked.
Gotta disagree. In my economics/government (civics) class back in the 90s in high school in statesia (they split it, one semester is one, one semester is the other for senior social studies) in April you did taxes. Just an average bay area public high school that was worried about losing all of ours programs except football to budget cuts
Sometimes I wonder if the problem isn't the content we cover, but the content people remember. Then again it could just be different districts.
We (at least used to) learn basic probabilities and averages (mean median, mode) in grade school. Maybe a little about distributions and deviations in the upper grades, but not greater statistical analysis unless you are in college prep courses.