Most Inaccurate Lessons You Were Taught in School

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Health Class tacher, to a perfectly nice guy who liked to smoke weed on the weekends "You'll be dead in five years if you keep it up."

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Not directly taught to me, but alot of Americans believe they won the war of 1812. Which is complete bullshit. If they had won, Canada wouldn't exist today.

 

[SultanP]

Damn, I can't remember specifics but I did once have a teacher who we had to correct a lot. We kinda stopped doing it though because she almost cried from being wrong so often. We ended up quietly figuring out what was right instead.

 

[mikecoulter]

It's usually maths or physics lessons that teachers have to lie or "bend the truth" slightly so they don't confuse younger students. Like in year 8 physics when my teacher said there were only 3 states of matter. Lol.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Let's just say this: revisionist history is the only history taught in American schools. Seriously, it's freaking ridiculous.

Completely agreed.

Both sides in any conflict are whitewashed.

Rape of Nanking?
Never heard of it before!

What do you mean we marvelous Americans tossed Japanese folk into camps?
That's just absurd.

The first, it was the Japanese, unless you were implying something else. And for the second one, we read Farewell to Manzanar in 8th grade language arts, which if you didn't know is all about the internment camps. But I do agree that probably most of the U.S. has no idea that that ever happened.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I remember a random middle/ high school science teacher talking about how two objects cannot occupy the same space. At this point that statement has been amended to state that "No 2 same sized objects can occupy the same space at the same time" or something like that

 

[j0z]

I have a pretty awesome history teacher, she doesn't sugarcoat history, especially US history.
Although she claims to have studied under some martial arts grand master, and that she can use her "chi" to do all kinds of things.
[small]she is secretly a Jedi who can use The Force[/small]

 

[theSovietConnection]

When my Senior economics teacher tried convincing the class (including me, a Brit with a taste for rock music from the 1960's to 80's) that the Beatles were all American... It's at this point I requested a subject change (This is in Australia)

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On topic, the biggest one would be that evidence of the Holocaust was questionable at best.

Yeah...

 

[Skuffyshootster]

The first, it was the Japanese, unless you were implying something else. And for the second one, we read Farewell to Manzanar in 8th grade language arts, which if you didn't know is all about the internment camps. But I do agree that probably most of the U.S. has no idea that that ever happened.

I know it was.
I was presenting an example for each side - the Japanese pretty much justified the use of nukes with what they did, and the Americans (or "we," if you prefer,) displayed MASSIVE hypocrisy with what they did.

Ah, I see. I was a bit confused there.

 

[EeveeElectro]

My English teacher in year 6 said a good story had no speech in it.
I hated that teacher.

 

[The Hairminator]

That marijuana is a very deadly and dangerous drug, and is highly addictive.
That's kinda what it said in my science textbook in 8th grade. There are so many things wrong with the educational system, and some people are just not fit to be parents. The world needs change.

 

[WeedWorm]

Most inaccurate thing I was told in school? Drugs are bad (m'kay).

 

[SeniorDingDong]

Wow the American education is pretty fucking terrible by the sounds of it.

I mean I had teachers who were arseholes, but at least they knew the subjects they were teaching.

My thoughts, too.

 

[jake09050]

In my freshmen health class we were taught that if EVERYONE practiced abstinence their whole lives the world would automatically become a better place and worse of all i got a detention for asking how and offering the counter arguement that the human species would cease to exist if we followed that logic. The only answer i got was simply "God wouldn't let it happen". Damn bible-thumpers

 

[Disaster Button]

That God would looks after us and love us all. HE'S NOT REAL YOU FOOL! *ahem*

Actually it was that eating glue was a bad thing, that paste tasted gorgeous.