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October 22, 2021, 6:19 am
Growing up is a series of moments in which you realize everything you know is wrong. Some of the truths you discover are profound, and some of them are not. Maybe the biggest realization is that a lot of the stuff you thought was true is actually bullsh-t your teacher or parents taught you.
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On Reddit, u/Necessary-Spinach182 asked, “What BS is still being taught to children?” and the dam burst, letting people pour out their resentments.
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Yes, kids are still being told a lot of the same BS that full-on adults were taught when they were kids, and it’s pretty frustrating. Why won’t we release these lies? Why won’t we pay to update U.S. history books? Why doesn’t anyone know what color unoxidized blood really is? I don’t have an answer to those questions that will fit in this post, but I can almost guarantee that you about to discover something you thought was true is just bullshit by reading these:
1.
‘It doesnt matter who started it’
Such bullshit. It absolutely matters who started it. If you punish a child for arguing/fighting over something they didn’t start, the child will be confused and rightly so.
It goes against everything we tell children about fairness and rule of law. —Tuvasbien
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Your school record will follow you your entire life.
My record from Mount Lebanon didn’t make it to Venetia school. Venetia record didn’t make it to McMurray, only a few miles away.
Entering college, nobody knew anything about the schools I’d attended. —snarlyelder
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In Denmark the abc song consists of 28 letters because we didnt used to count W for some reason. However, now we obviously do count the W but the song was never updated and many adults thinks me an idiot when i say there are 29 letters in our alphabet. It truly pisses me off. —LeMolle
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“Ignore bullies and they’ll leave you alone.”
When you do that, one of two things are likely to happen. Either they’ll mess with you more, or they’ll move to someone else and bully them.
If you stand up to bullies, they back down. The earlier in life you put these people in their place, the less likely they’ll develop their bad behavior as a lifelong practice. —wecaka
5.
None of the solar system models are even remotely to scale. —RedneckNerf
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Kids are starting social media so early these days, and I think that’s very dangerous because it puts a lot of pressure on the kid to attribute their worth to their social media success. I also think parents are way too open with their social media when it comes to their kids, and it’s totally a violation of the child’s privacy, of which some parents will never admit. —Jasonhopkins99
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That adults know what they’re doing. —AWildLychnus
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That cracking their knuckles will destroy their hands. Like, just fucking say it annoys you, Jessica. Ask them to stop, it’s not that hard. Stop feeding them bullshit. —tropicalzhu
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9.
That Rosa Parks protest was spontaneous, and that she was just some random person.
She was the secretary for the president of the local NAACP, and she was chosen because she was believed to be best to elicit sympathy for the cause (partially based on her light skin).
It was a carefully scripted event, aided by out of state activists. —StillSilentMajority7
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In general, stop teaching “You will not be in trouble if you tell me the truth” if you are going to punish them.
It’s teaching them it’s more important to not get caught, that your word means nothing, and to lie anyway as you will earn the punishment. —CrazyCoKids
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Prior to college/university levels, there is far too much emphasis on simply believing what the teacher says, and not nearly enough on sourcing of their information or independent research.
Students are often expected to trust what they are being told is true without being taught how to make sure it actually is true.
This has created a lot of people willing to believe the first thing they hear, so long as the person saying it sounds “more educated.” (Politics and misinformation) —TheRavingRaccoon
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My 5th grade teacher taught us that our blood was blue until exposed to oxygen and that’s why our veins looked blue. 10 year old me called bullshit and got detention. I had spent alot of time in the hospital at that point in my life and had seen my blood drawn enough times to know that was crap. —Caity26
*First Published: October 22, 2021, 6:19 am
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