Oh gosh, I could go on and on about all the misinformation I was taught in school. I started school in 1970 and attended public school until I was 18. We were taught stuff like the USA single-handedly won WWII. Rome fell because they hated Jesus. Everyone else in the world would give their right arm to be American. The US is more advanced than every other nation on the planet. After I graduated and met people from other countries, I got quite the wake-up call. It was so embarrassing. What's even more embarrassing now is that kids are still taught this crap today over 40 years later. I personally taught my kids about history. I explained to them that to get good grades and get along with their teachers, they would need to be able to recite the falsehoods and write them on tests, but that didn't make them true. I felt so awful telling my kids that, but I didn't want them to grow up being idiots.
Story 3: interoception, the sensation of your body communicating within itself. Your stomach tells you youre hungry, your bladder when you need to pee, for when your blood has too much CO2 in it, pain, cold, heartbeat, etc. It's the sense that ensures those travel to the brain. Being autistic, that all gets messed up and super strong or super soft. Like taste or texture is much stronger sense than normal people, sound and touch as well, light can be overwhelming, you don't get hungry for days, you can have arrhythmia. It's insane
To this day I can not remember what he was actually meant to be teaching. It was a class spread between multiple teachers each focusing on sonething important for adult life. Career ambitions, job interviews, cvs/ resumes, you got a 2 week internship in your then dream job, National Insurance/ Social Security numbers etc (well those are the other things I do remember but there were more.) Most of his lessons focused on conspiracy theories. And he was a big believer on the moon landing being faked. I'd leave it up to interpretation as to whether this counts. And no he didn't focus on conspiracy theories, only can remember him finding a way to cover Aids and LGBT community (early 2000s.) But it wasn't until the last few classes we had him for
I went to school in the UK where separation of church and state is not a thing and alot of schools taught Christianity as fact/ in the same way they taught history. It boils down to what you do or don't believe or what religion (if any) you practice. Personally, as an atheist, while I don't want to suggest religions are not taught. I am behind the practice of separation of church and state in schools. My high school was non denominational and religion, outside the subject Religious Education which itself was teaching about all religions for the most part, had a minimal presence at best. All I probably should say on the subject.
I learned from specifically Peppa pig many years ago that you can feed wild ducks BREAD. NO YOU CAN NOT, DONT FEED ANY DUCKS BREAD. Also that bs talk about how “hard high school would be” the teachers in my high school are the chillest people ever, yeah sure they take behaviour differently but they actually do something about it. Another one, how hard it is to go and get a job in our circumstances (I am a kid from the suburbs and was pretty spoiled in the past, also I currently attend a private catholic school, so yeah that entitled) all you need to do is figure what your good at which for me was grade 7, you also have to figure out what you like and compare them to what your good at, I am interested in robotics and engineering, I am average at it compared to my other classes.
Story 2 Penmanship and cursivce writing - if you are only concerned with comtemporary communication, only knowing keybording or two-thumbing away on a smart phone is adequate. But . . .what if you have to research something from decades or centuries back? QWERTY arrangement was panted in 1868, just a littel more than 150 yuears ago.
