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DevsBro posted...

WTGHookshot posted...

See, the thing is YOU don't need to name what form of irony someone was using, but maybe one of the other kids in you English Lit class does need to know that today for their career.

High school is all about teaching broad spectrums to expose people to what's possible in their future.

That's exactly what I'm saying. Everyone needs to know how to add, read, etc. And everyone needs to know how to invest. But investment is left out for the sake of all this crap that most people aren't ever going to use or care about. What was George Washington's dog's name? What's the indefinite integral of (e^x)sin x?

English lit just happens to be the BSest of all this stuff is why I picked on it.

Eh, you used a bad example. Indefinite integrals are things I have to use quite a bit in my field (civil engineering), so that's not a BS thing at all. To a guide at Mt. Vernon, knowing George Washington's dog's name also isn't BS.

This is one of those "one man's trash is another man's treasure" situation. Not everyone makes investments, so even investing isn't 100% needed by everyone. That said, quite a few schools do have classes that talk about that. When I was in high school, it was mandatory to take "Participation in Government" for a semester and "Economics" for a semester which included a hefty portion about investment. The only time you didn't need to take those was if you were in the AP/IB history/math classes. I figure the reason for that was those tend to be geared at more intellectual students who would already learn or know the skills taught in those classes on their own.