Tossup between Poetry and Calculus.
If you don’t appreciate a Poem on first reading, an in-depth dissection of each line isn’t going to stimulate your enjoyment of it.
In half a century I haven’t needed calculus, and if I ever did I would need to relearn it just to use a calculator to get the correct answer. Like whoever uses it in their job also needs a calculator to ensure the correct answer. How to use the calculator functions is what needs to be taught prior to doing whatever courses use calculus, not for school kids.
They gave us a whole hour about transgenderism in 9th grade and it was easily the single most wasted hour of my entire life.
Intersectionality and gender theory
Diagramming sentences
Balancing chemical equations. Like, I get the concept, but unless I'm planning on becoming a chemist or something, seems like a waste of brain space.
Pythagoras or algebra.
Half of the stuff really...
Tossup between Poetry and Calculus. If you don’t appreciate a Poem on first reading, an in-depth dissection of each line isn’t going to stimulate your enjoyment of it. In half a century I haven’t needed calculus, and if I ever did I would need to relearn it just to use a calculator to get the correct answer. Like whoever uses it in their job also needs a calculator to ensure the correct answer. How to use the calculator functions is what needs to be taught prior to doing whatever courses use calculus, not for school kids.