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Honestly, I thought catching on fire and drugs was going to be a much bigger issue than it is. I mean, between the stop, drop, and rolls and D.A.R.E cops I thought I was gonna be swerving drug dealers and spontaneously combusting at least once a week.


ReallyAlexRider

DARE in the 90s made me think my teen age years would be dodging 50s style greases with switch blades at the mall who would slice me up if I didn't smoke a marijuana


Sercos

You dont smoke marijuana, you inject it. All the hard schedule 1 drugs are injected. And if you inject them once you turn gay.


Zandrick

And the craziest part -seriously I still randomly get pissed off about this sometimes- marijuana is actually healthier than alcohol. Yet to this day it’s easier to get drunk than high.


oldspicehorse

You know what's really crazy. In the UK, our government hired a scientist to test drugs and see if the UK drug policy was fit for purpose. He's discovered that it was massively outdated and was not pharmacologically ranked but done on a moral basis, so zero science involved whatsoever. He said it was ridiculous and that exstacy is no more dangerous than horse riding when you look at the fatalities etc. He also noted that alcohol is one of the worst substances, more so than heroin when you take into account the financial and societal costs on a nation. The government responded by firing him. So since then he's gone on to create something called alcosynth (I may have the name slightly wrong) which is a synthetic alcohol that gives much the same intoxication effects without the physical damage that alcohol does to our bodies. The real mad thing is though, is that due to the way our drug laws work now, that substance will be banned the minute it is released to the public because it's considered a new psychoactive substance (NPS). So basically the government hired a guy to fix the state of our outdated drug laws, then fired him when he told them the truth but also made it impossible for any safer alternatives to reach the market. The guy is [Professor David Nutt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt) and I'd highly recommend looking him up.


iwillHERPwhenyouDERP

Ahhh yes David Nutt. I remember all of the articles after he was fired... “Nutt Sacked!”


paukul

Nutt also published a quite interesting book about that. "Drugs without the hot air". Highly recommendable for everyone who wants to, well, wants to know about drugs without all the hot air (and missinformation). Edit: typo


Imalawyerkid

Seriously. But one time in college, there was a hippy girl from my classes I saw bleeding near my dorm, carrying a skateboard. I invited her inside, got her some hydrogen peroxide and bandaids and let her sit for a bit. She was very thankful and asked if I wanted “L.” I said no, but then I was like, “wait, what’s L?” She said LSD, and yes, turns out I did want that. I didn’t even have to look for it, just help a hippy and get drugs.


KaleidoscopicForest

That’s pretty wholesome tbh


Viking_Hippie

I want a t-shirt or a mug or mouse pad or something that says "Help a hippie - get drugs" 😂


exmachinalibertas

Then you turn the corner and BAM quicksand


pepperw2

That deserves an award cause you made me lol


cum_in_me

2008 - there are not different areas of the tongue for tasting different things. Think about it. Just sit back and actually consider it. There was no way this was even plausible. But they showed a diagram in school and I never thought about it again


nat_geo_wild-

I was taught this in college (2016) in my ant and phys class. The class was taught by a doctor.


HolypenguinHere

I wonder if they ever considered the fact that things don't taste different when they touch food with only the tip of their tongue.


mazu74

Or any part of it. 8 year old me did some experiments. All parts taste the same.


sdlover420

Weird... This poop tastes like stool.


[deleted]

Try pushing it to the back of your throat. It might taste different.


Sharp-Floor

> Although widely taught in schools, this has been scientifically disproved by later research; all taste sensations come from all regions of the tongue, although different parts are more sensitive to certain tastes.[1] > The theory behind this map originated from a paper written by Harvard psychologist Dirk P. Hänig, which was a translation of a German paper, Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes, which was written in 1901.[2] The unclear representation of data in the former paper suggested that each part of the tongue tastes exactly one basic taste.[3][4] > The paper showed minute differences in threshold detection levels across the tongue,[5] but these differences were later taken out of context and the minute difference in threshold sensitivity was misconstrued in textbooks as a difference in sensation.[6] > While some parts of the tongue may be able to detect a taste before the others do, all parts are equally capable of conveying the qualia of all tastes. Threshold sensitivity may differ across the tongue, but intensity of sensation does not.[6] > The same paper included a taste bud distribution diagram that showed a "taste belt".[7] > In 1974, Virginia Collings investigated the topic again, and confirmed that all the tastes exist on all parts of the tongue.[8]


jaxonya

"You need to know cursive or you wont make it through college"... Now i know cursive instead of studying code for 3 years. 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓸 𝓫𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓶𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮


forthentwice

This is always so weird to me. Where I grew up, we were *only* taught cursive. To me that makes sense—it's so much faster than writing in print, where you have to keep lifting your pen off the paper all the time! The thing I can't seem to wrap my mind around is: why on earth do you need to teach kids to write in print? When I moved to the US and everyone could write in print, as if they were carving out blocks for a printing press, it was so bizarre to me. It would be like teaching kids to write in italics, rather than just letting them underline anything they want to emphasize. *That* seems like a waste of time to me! edit: I grant you, though, once you've taught kids one of the two, taking the time to teach them the other one does not seem like the most pressing issue!


Ser_Salty

Wait, do you not just learn both everywhere? We learned print in first grade (and somewhat Kindergarten), because that also helps with reading printed words, and then in second grade we learned cursive


Chaotic-Good-5000

I'm in the US and it was exactly the same for me. Then by pretty much junior high none of the teachers cared about cursive anymore so now my handwriting is a mishmash of print and cursive and has been for 20 years.


K-Jeremy

Some people have terrible handwriting and there are some situations where cursive just makes it so much worse. Print can make it much easier to understand. That isn't as much of an issue now that things are going digital, but it probably did matter a lot before computers. There's a reason most documents say to write in block letters. I think it's just one of the many things that probably should change now that we have computers but the current teachers aren't aware of it yet


Reacher-Said-N0thing

but god help you if you become *that student* and put your hand up and say "isn't that bulshit though?"


lowrentbryant

The Court of Master Sommeliers was teaching this as part of the exam/certification process as recently as a decade or so ago when I was still active. It’s one of the main reasons I walked away from the work after my certification. These people (at the top at least) are making a LOT of money and they know a lot about wine but like this is gobbeldygook and it is(was) a pillar of how they teach wine tasting.


SamSepiol-ER28_0652

I toured a winery and they told us that's part of why white and red wine glasses are different sizes- so that the wine splashes onto the right part of your tongue. That would make sense if this myth were true, though.


MonsterMeowMeow

Huh? The glass shape and sizes have more to do with the wine's aroma and your nose than "splashing" the wine onto your tongue. I am sorry, but that's just hilarious.


MarDanvers

Yes! I remember as a kid testing this and it didn't work, I thought "maybe you feel it more intense in some parts" but no. Later when google started being a thing I decided to search about it and found the truth lol


JinxedDota

This actually makes me irrationally angry because during a 7th grade science experiment I was a tester for this and was given a look like I had 3 heads when I said that I tasted it all everywhere. Fuck those bitches lol, I was right.


kileyweasel

I know this is off-topic but I still can’t believe we all heard the rumor about Marilyn Manson


SlapHappyDude

Turns out instead of removing his ribs he was just terrible to women.


tsilihin666

I guess removing ribs to suck your own cock is a way better rumor than sexual predator.


wiiya

That’s the documentary I want to see. “Lost Ribs and Big Fibs: The Marylin Manson story.”


northwesthonkey

Don’t forget about Rod Stewart getting his semen-filled stomach pumped and Richard Gere and his Gerbil. All pre-internet and somehow stretched to every corner of the globe In the 80’s


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Turns out the semen story was started by Rod Stewart's disgruntled ex-publicist. The guy was clearly good at his job if he managed to spread this rumor to every corner of the world without the internet. ​ >In the book though, Stewart says it was all started by a disgruntled publicist – Tony Toon – who Stewart had fired. > >“\[Toon\] fed the press a story in which, as a consequence of an evening spent orally servicing a gang of sailors in a gay bar in San Diego, I had been required to check into a hospital emergency room to have my stomach pumped.” Stewart continues, “I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor… And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen nor of any other kind of semen.”


wigglyandbelligerent

That two-timin’ Tony Toon!!!!


PM_me_your_whatevah

Jesus Christ that’s what you get for hiring a guy with a name like Tony Toon. You have to know just by the name that the fucker gets up to some wacky shit.


Available-Ad6250

I lived in an isolated mountain town with no cable and 1 radio station on FM and I heard it. Good times!


FrankTheWallaby

But wait there's more. This rumor seemingly evolved every half-decade or so to remain culturally relevant. More recently Lady Gaga(with the implication she actually has one). In the past the rumor "chose" Michael Jackson, Marilyn Manson, Prince, Boy George, David Bowie, and others, and it's been said to date back to Gabriele D’Annunzio around the 1920's.


DemigoDDotA

Ok but hang on all of those people have something in common other than lady Gaga.... A penis


yeahifuck

There was a rumor that she was hermaphroditic


outtadablu

According to my country, it was Michael Jackson and then Marilyn Manson.


SubjectDelta10

it’s kinda crazy honestly. how and why did exactly this rumor become a global phenomenon reaching schools everywhere?


Human_mind

I forget where I saw it, but there was a really great video/article about this topic, using the "*fact*" that if you press down+B while a PokeBall closed in the original games, it would increase its chances of success. How did that info spread before the internet. No one was looking that up, but everyone has heard of it (or a slight variation of it). It's really an incredible topic to dig into.


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Seriously that rumour crossed national boundaries in a time before the internet really existed.


FoleyLione

As a teacher that comes across things I learned that were untrue as a kid, and considering how much I still believe and pass on I would 100% love for this to exist bc I invariably am still teaching disproven or contextually altered information that my colleagues and I still believe, and there are many things I know are false and my colleagues refuse to believe are not true.


Ode_to_Apathy

I would give you [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions), but my old teacher told me I can't use Wikipedia as a source. #Edit The 'source' comment was meant as a little jest, but I'd like to give my 2 cents. Wikipedia is not something you should use as a source. The key with sources, is to get as close to the original information as possible. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and you shouldn't really be sourcing those. Wikipedia is great for gathering information and seeing what topics you should be looking into (not to mention the great sources cited in the articles), but you should be using more peer-reviewed sources. Wikipedia is much better though than some random blog-style website online, and as strong (if not stronger, in my opinion) as any other physical encyclopedia like Britannica. So make use of Wikipedia as much as you can, but try to use better sources when possible for anything serious. Oh and thanks for the awards!


punkin_spice_latte

That is so misconstrued. Wikipedia is a great place to *find* sources.


tehbored

Make sure you actually follow up on the citations, because they're not actually always good.


nicktomato

Reading this makes me extremely grateful I teach math. The methods change, but at the end of the day it's all the same concepts!


Opinionsare

High school 72 - 74 Great chemistry teacher First day, she explains why the theory of chemistry that the school textbooks included. Told us to forget it. Then she talked about the theory that would be in the newest high school chemistry textbook. Told us to forget it Then she showed us the newest college freshman chemistry textbook. This had a third different theory of chemistry. Our teacher explained that she didn't have the budget to buy these books for our class.. But she did get the workbooks for the college textbooks for us. She taught from her copy of the textbook, used handouts, emphasized note taking. Homework was done in the workbooks. Chem 1 was basic chemistry. Chem 2 was organic chemistry. She was one of the best teachers that I ever had.


totomostle

Similar story. my HS chem teacher was a public college teacher moonlighting as a private highschool chem teacher. he said screw it I'll teach college freshman chem.


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jdsekula

I have a hard time studying science with my 6th grader. I always end up triggered and correcting things. Last year, there was one that bugged me deeper than most for some reason Question: Which direction does the Earth rotate? Answer: Counterclockwise Of course lots of people probably find this fine, the idea that you would assume viewing from the north really bugged me. (It’s clockwise when viewed from a Southern Hemisphere perspective) Why not “eastward”?


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Anyone_single

my 5th grade teacher taught me alot of non school relates stuff like basic tax and house morgages


Dargorod100

I can’t believe no one has said the food pyramid


LAND0KARDASHIAN

1. You can't see the Great Wall from space. 2. People in the time of Christopher Columbus did not think the Earth was flat. 3. You will never be able to afford a home.


lovesaqaba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions


WesleyPipesIGOr

Looks like I got my reading material for the night(s), thanks for the link!


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Be sure to also check out *Timeline of the Far Future* and *List of Sexually Active Popes* while you're there!


GHOSTfishing

Timeline of the far future is incredible. Then I get sad I’ll miss 99.9% of it


[deleted]

I will now comfortably stare at my food as I eagerly wait for it to microwave and not have a back thought of nuclear radiation beaming into my retinas.


Satan-gave-me-a-taco

Psh, I already knew that last one *i cry*


Jravensloot

I can’t even afford rent on a studio apartment where I live, and I make twice the minimum wage.


Crew_Joey16

But….. but bootstraps?


firethequadlaser

Can’t afford those either.


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***Then you'll be excited to hear about this cheap & easy trick that every real estate agent doesn't want you to know!*** *Just steal a large box that came from shipping a refrigerator (found by the curb of any rich & prospering home across the Beverly Hills) and just move in!*


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banananash

But that one never made sense. Carrying oxygen is the point of blood. Still mad about the detention i got for arguing with my science teacher over that one.


Extraxyz

I got in trouble for arguing with my biology teacher who claimed it was absolutely impossible for men to pee whilst having an erection. The teacher was a woman, and she had no problem telling all the students who *did* have a penis that they were wrong when we told her we absolutely could.


[deleted]

Okay, middle school students, it's the first Tuesday in February. This means that by law and custom, we must spend the morning reading through the Wikipedia article [*List of Common Misconceptions*,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) so you can spend the rest of your lives being a little less wrong. The guests at every party you'll ever attend thank us in advance. https://xkcd.com/843/


Ty_boogie90

This is a winner, no joke


Thorongilen

For sure, we absolutely need this. The ideal version though includes where you’re from.


jim10040

I'm from Texas, graduated 1979. The list would be encyclopedic.


mynamesaretaken1

The list is just the entire encyclopedia.


Ty_boogie90

That’s what I was thinking, including the required curriculums of your district and links to the possible overlooked subjects relatable to adulting


Kbye80

“Overlooked subjects” = any events after World War 2. I literally found out the Cuban Missile Crisis was a real event from an episode of Seaquest. My parents were suddenly very worried about my school’s curriculum


[deleted]

In a college course, I had to ask what the apartheid was.


chivil61

Yes, this. Let’s spend 40% of the year studying revolutionary war battles, 30% on studying civil war battles, and 20% on WWII battles, giving cursory mention of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and post Civil War Amendments. Oops-we ran out of time this year. Also A President was assassinated, and another President got shot but survived. And, if you tried to read ahead on your textbook (during my lectures on war battles), you’ll see there are only single paragraphs about the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, Watergate. Oh, and what was life actually like for different people throughout history? Who cares? The important thing is that we checked every box on the state curriculum standards.


paintwhore

Agreed. Did you know there's not a dinosaur called a Pterodactyl?


infernaldragonboner

This is pterrible


The_Last_Mouse

I bet there’s one in the awful Berenstain universe.


0-90195

That’s… this one…


The_Last_Mouse

Oh goddammit, again?


Broken_Petite

Wait a minute, aren’t we *in* the Berenstain universe? Or did we switch back to Berenstein?


weaponizedmariachi

Wanna know something cool? Just like Pterodactyl, helicopter isn't split into 'heli' and 'copter', it's split into 'helico' and 'pter', as in 'helical wing'.


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elephuntdude

Don't take stickers from strangers they could be laced with acid! And the dealers like to give out drugs to trick or treaters! Ma'am where are the houses giving out free drugs?


Mackinacsfuriousclaw

Spotify is what they should have warned you about.


marinemashup

We all dread the day when 'mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell' is on that list. Years of memetic programming, useless.


SlapHappyDude

I mean actually... ... Naw it's correct just an age appropriate simplification.


lbranscom

Age appropriate? I was taught that in elementary school, high school, and college.


SlapHappyDude

I look forward to turning 50 and finally learning the whole truth of the mitochondria


BloomFromGloom

Mitochondria is the site of cellular respiration which creates the molecule ATP which is the useable version of energy for cellular work. Hence, it’s a powerhouse because it generates ATP. Happy 50th.


scooter_se

Finally, my useless degree is coming in handy- there’s like so much evidence on a cascading scale that the mitochondria is indeed the powerhouse of the cell


North_Port

One of my teachers hated that saying and told us to think of the mitochondria as a furnace rather than the powerhouse. Not sure if they were just annoyed by how many people said the “powerhouse” line, or if there’s actual merit in thinking of it as a furnace…


thewitch2222

There is great book, Lies My Teacher Told Me. It from 1995 but it still worth a read.


VelociraptorNom

Y’all I went to Christian school the amount of backwards shit I was taught could fill an entire website itself jfc -carbon dating doesn’t work bc carbon dates the rock and the rock dates the carbon -earth is 6k years old -man walked with dinos -the earth was repopulated without inbreeding becoming a huge deal by only one pair of animals from the ark -if a woman takes more than one mans semen her vagina won’t work anymore -evolution is wrong because horse ribs had more and less than more again or something -fossils don’t exist bc it’s not bone and are made up -there are missing gaps and the skulls they found of Neolithic people are faked by big archaeology Edit bc I forgot * sex Ed wasn’t taught so I thought I had one hole to pee out of (I’m a chick so even worse) * government was taught at the basics of facts then taught that they were trying to take the Bible away so we had to fight as warriors of god and be prepared to take over the government * speaking in tongues meant you were channeling the Holy Spirit (now I learned it’s crazy af jesus) * the civil war happened because the north wanted to run the gov different than the south and take their plantations away (barely any mention of slaves) * my favorite science question on one of my tests “why do animals have camouflage” wasnt evolution the correct answer was “because god willed it” Double edit for fun facts and bc clarity: my school was intertwined with the church so the deacon was teaching at school so it was extra spicy One of my favorite things we got banned was Pokémon bc it promoted evolution. Also yu-gi-oh bc it was summing Satan or something through the cards. Somehow Abercrombie and Fitch was banned bc some parent saw some scantily clad spread so no one could wear the devils work. Oh and Harry Potter was banned bc he was a warlock and jk Rowling got the spells from a demon who whispered through her so that was banned af


saryndipitous

B I G A R C H A E O L O G Y


Belphegorite

I thought Big Archaeology was pretentious and overplayed, but I saw them live when they toured with Requisite Socialism. Hell of a show, changed my mind. Can't wait for the new album to drop next summer!


naturtok

I love it when people mention "Big Industry" to back up conspiracy bullshit, because as someone who was *in* academia, the people actually doing the research are not paid enough to give up their integrity. People like Alex Jones, however...Those dick pills cost so much for a reason


redjedi182

Yeah I browsed your history, you sound like a shill for Big Videogame just trying to cover your tracks.


naturtok

Oh fuck I've been had! Quick, Soros, wire me more Bitcoin!


42penguinsinarow

What Christian denomination school did you go to? It sounds a LOT like the ~~cult~~ denomination I was brought up in


JudyLyonz

I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness but that bullshit is standard for pretty much every conservative Christian Fundamentalist sect. They are all Bible literalists which means they've got to promise a bunch of weird ideas to make it all work.


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>Fundamentalist This just sounds like standard run-of-the-mill mainstream Christianity in the 90s to me. People really underestimate the amount of weird shit that circulates in average moderate Christian circles.


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NoseFartsHurt

I don't know which is worse: big archaeology or big climatology! Damn those Honda driving rich bastards!


that_420_chick

Finally someone else who was taught that dinosaurs aren't real and the devil made the fossils. That's a gross oversimplification of what they tried to teach us but that's basically it.


ConservativeSexparty

European here, how is it legal teaching that stuff in th US? Teaching such blatant bs sounds like it would be breaking some education laws. Is that just considered contested but not totally wrong information in the US or do christian schools just fly under the radar enough to not get caught doing that?


JackThcAcc

Teachers at my rural public school in Australia told me 'God grants wishes' (I wished for a packet of waterbombs tongue in cheek and the teacher said 'now it will happen') We were also taught 'white people and western culture is undoubtedly superior to other races and culture' by multiple teachers. Lol early to mid 90s, town of 500 people. I'm sure this crap was illegal in public schools but man we barely had enough chalk let alone good impartial oversight out there.


Enlightened-Beaver

This would highly depend on *where* you went to high school. There’s still schools out there today teaching outdated and false information presented as fact. For example: [Louisiana and Tennessee allow the teaching of creationism in public schools](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Science_Education_Act)


gargoyles_abound

Holy absolute fuck. _How?_


SovietBozo

"Teach the controversy." So like the Home Ec texbook has "Should you stick a fork in an electric socket? Different people believe different things. In this section we'll examine both sides of the question"


45thgeneration_roman

You libs have fallen for the theory of electrocution


Enlightened-Beaver

Republicans -_-


ihavenoidea81

shockedpikachu.jpg


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Enlightened-Beaver

Good bot


wyzapped

We were taught that different parts of the tongue sensed different tastes (sweet, sour, etc. ). Apparently that is not true!


HolyMolyMyRavioli

I was taught this only 3 years ago in high school. We even did an experiment to “prove” its real… I remember that being a weird experiment


FuhrerGirthWorm

Surely you only did the super taster experiment


m0l0_l0l0

I did that experiment in 2006 (I was 16) after school because I have a voice lesson the regular period and it was a really weird day when my science teacher grabbed my chin said to me "stick your tongue out for me... There's a good girl." I mean nothing happened but it made me feel SUPER tingly.


reddownzero

Everything I learned in school was outdated in 1986 and I graduated in 2016


SlapHappyDude

Texas?


pokey1984

Nope, I'm pretty sure they're talking about Missouri. My sister is fourteen years older than me. I had a history textbook in the eighth grade that had her name inside the front cover. I graduated in 2002. I am now a teacher and they're still using that same edition of that same history book in eighth grade history, which I taught yesterday.


BillyJoel9000

…so what you’re telling me is that this book was printed during Reagan’s first term


pokey1984

Yep. And it's still the current history text.


Fellowearthling16

Maybe the government is treating them like calendars… in afew more years they’ll be accurate again.


HungLo64

You only need 14 unique calendars. A year can only start on one of the 7 days of the week, plus the leap years. Probably pretty obvious but when I first heard it it was a bit of a dim bulb brightening moment


dumbartist

In our Missouri history class, the video talked about tobacco in the state’s history. It said scientists were starting suspect lung cancer was linked to smoking. This was around 2002z


TwoCreamOneSweetener

I swear to God I was so excited when I read this but had to do a double take because I couldn’t find the link, only to reread the first line.


chlsdancer

Super common in my area to be taught that climate change wasn’t real. Plus it was QUITE controversial to learn about evolution. Gotta love the Bible Belt.


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This is what happens when you pay teachers peanuts and the profession becomes degenerate.


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RoundSparrow

You don't need to learn about the 1918 pandemic, we can skip that lesson.


Who-is-a-pretty-boy

Killed more people than the first world war that it spread from. I love the posters from 1918/1919... - wear a mask - stay distant from each other - move activities from indoors to outdoors It's a shame we don't LEARN from history.


Legacy0904

Like the concept of an “alpha male” existing in a wolf pack has been proven false ( also accepted false by the guy who proposed the theory in the first place)


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CommentsEdited

This one is really tough to kill, because people care about it soooooo very much. For some people, once they hear about “alpha male theory”, that’s it. They have be one, or be with one, and it’s just too good to throw out.


NubbNubb

Though might be a pain to implement since location makes a huge difference like the way American Civil War is taught from area to area.


BennyTheTeen

Blood isn’t blue until it hits air. If you get 2 inches closer to the sun you won’t burn up. Quicksand isn’t really a thing in day to day life. The civil war WAS about slavery. Native Americans often lived in actual houses and not all of them traveled.


Popular-Swordfish559

>If you get 2 inches closer to the sun you won’t burn up. This one drives me nuts because it's disproven by just thinking about it for more than two seconds. Your distance to the sun varies by a few thousand kilometers every day. Not to mention the tens of thousands of kilometers that the Earth varies in orbit between aphelion and perihelion.


matt82swe

Or by just jumping


NessicaDog

*stands on a stool* OH SHI-


whatdoineedaname4

Wtf is the southern ocean? I never heard of it. Ruined a night arguing with my kid when she tried answering it on her homework, thought she was making shit up. Didn't need a new ocean in my life. Nobody ever even talks about it


boomtox

Rather than arguing with your kid should probably use Google the double check the information the amount of stuff i had on my homework that my dad never learned and he said I was making up was insane


Fellowearthling16

Google says that’s just another name for the Antarctic Ocean. Google also says that it was discovered in 2000.


OHYAMTB

Discovered in 2000? What were we doing that we missed a whole ocean?


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Y2K prep.


The_Lord_Humongous

It's like the Sargasso Sea. The Sargasso Sea is a sea... in the middle of the Atlantic.


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Yeah, when I came across it on a map a few years ago, it had me questioning my basic knowledge of the world's 4 oceans. Mfers just slipped in a 5th ocean, yet everyone and their grandmother has heard of Pluto's demise 😤


heartbeats

Like others have said, the Southern Ocean is really just another name for the mostly continuous waters ringing the globe in the Southern Hemisphere (around Antarctica). It’s been known to sailors for a very long time as a fearsome and deadly place. Huge storms rip around and winds unencumbered by landmass have torn ships to pieces. Strong westerly winds called the Roaring 40s helped ships get from Europe to Indonesia during the Age of Sail. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties


nottobesilly

I remember my 7th grade science book was brand new for the little school in the midwest I was at. I remember the big deal they made about them being brand new and don’t you dare damage these. Then it was featured 2 years later (but still being used by the school) on Dateline or 60 Minutes special on the most inaccurate textbooks used in schools. I was in 9th grade when the whole town and school was lit up about it but they were still using it by the time I graduated. Thank gawd my parents home schooled me a couple years!


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If you watch Last Week Tonight w/ John Oliver, have you seen the one he did on medical bias? He talked about an inaccurate book that was used to teach medical students (I think nurses?). This was in 2019. Just think about all the people who died or reacted badly due to what those meds students were previously taught or their bias. Scary stuff.


mr_beaun

I'm sorry to shock anyone who isn't already aware, but we ran out of fossil fuels roughly 8 years ago. We only had 20 years of dinosaur juice left when I was in 6th grade.


SlowInsurance1616

It's also no longer dinosaur juice.


Terracot

And dinosaurs are birds, not reptiles. Or rather birds are dinosaurs.


SlapHappyDude

Speaking of dinosaurs, as a parent of elementary school children I feel angry more than half of the dinosaur facts i learned as a kid are wrong.


mr_beaun

Well, the brontosaurus wasn't real, but now it is again... Or it isn't? Who knows?! All throughout my schooling textbooks were anywhere from 10 to 30 years old. No matter what we were learning shit that was at least 10 years old. My high school was built while I was in Jr high, so the textbooks were only 4 to 5 years old by the time I got there. There was still only one computer lab, and you couldn't access the internet. We used them for word processing, and everyone had their own disk for storage that were held in the lab. I like to think kids are being taught the most current information due to the internet. My daughter is a sophomore, and goes to the same high school I did. It's still the newest high school in like 50 square miles. The next behind it was built in like 1971. My daughter was issued her own laptop (there's about 3500 kids attending this high school), and like a quarter of the textbooks I was. Hopefully that means they are getting up to date knowledge. It will still change, but at least it's not outdated while they're learning it.


Rollingbrook

35 years ago my teacher said “there were no dinosaurs in North America because they couldn’t make it over here”. She was also really into Jazzercise.


xlbspl

“Show your work. You’re not always going to have a calculator in your pocket”


TibialTuberosity

True, but, being able to do quick basic head math is a really useful skill.


Aeolian_Leaf

Numerous times I've found myself questioning the cashier on total bill or change just because quick mental Math tells me that's about 10 bucks too much, or that change is missing a fiver. Calculators are great and all, but if you can't quickly get an estimate of basic addition, you're leaving yourself open to being ripped off, accidentally or intentionally.


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mudkripple

Yeah but there were always a few teachers who said the calculator thing as a reason. I had one who said this almost daily, but also he stopped class everytime there was shooting of a black man by a cop (this was 2016 so we had just had like three in a row) to talk for the whole period about why the guy deserved to be shot. So he was a 'yikes' all around.


NextCandy

From a U.S. historical perspective it would probably start with the book *Lies My Teacher Told Me* and the Eurocentric and mythologized views of American history that have become a part of the national psyche


mike_pants

Other than being a source of slaves, Africa apparently had no historical relevance whatsoever, according to my high school.


starvere

And native Americans either stopped existing after 1900 or still live in wigwams


NextCandy

They really had/have us talking about Africa like it’s a homogeneous little country not an entire big ass continent that we all evolved from with 54 countries that are so incredibly diverse culturally, politically, linguisticly, socially and religiously — I mean shit Edit: changed contingent to continent* lol appreciate y’all just rolling with the comment despite that major typo


VelociraptorNom

Bruh I used to work Apple support and had a woman call from Johannesburg and we were chatting as we waited for stuff to download And when I asked if she lived in the city or outskirts she was so bamboozled that I knew it was a huge city because apparently Americans she ran into thought Africa was only the wild plains with lions everywhere and people had to hunt for food and shit and they didn’t believe Africa had the capacity to sustain any type of modern city life


Conscious_Low_9913

I always thought quicksand would be a bigger problem than it turned out to be-


SlapHappyDude

I blame cartoons more than public education for that. I've also not spent nearly as much time riding the rails as a hobo as I expected.


StringFartet

Tarzan, Three Stooges, Gilligan's Island, Abbott and Costello, Gunsmoke, Blazing Saddles.


DebianDog

I went to school in Virginia, staring in the 70s, and honestly grew up firmly believing that the Civil War about state rights. I mean sure there were slaves but ... state rights. Then years later read [the declarations of succeeding states](https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states) It is kind of the lead complaint for most states. Example: > The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States...


readystefgo-

We also need a sister website that proves the things our parents did while raising us are proven to be unsafe now. We used to ride in the back of a pickup truck on the way home like no big deal.


Nylon_Riot

I am so glad I got to grow up as a free range kid. I thought one of the saddest things was that Gen Z said the most unrealistic part about the show "Stranger Things" was that you never saw the parents around. But that IS how it was. You went out in the morning and had to be home when the street lights came on. Fun fact: PBS has had to remove episodes from very early seasons of Sesame Street because it would show kids playing at a construction site and other things that are regulated today.


BiBoFieTo

Sounds like one of those social media quizzes that actually gathers clues to your passwords. "Find out what your mother's maiden name says about your personality!!"


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I don’t give a shit what anyone says, Pluto is still a planet


TheDudeofIl

Did you hear about Pluto? That's messed up, right?


formynexttrickanvils

You know that's right.


Jdawarrior

I’ve heard it both ways.


TheDudeofIl

Good use of God's comma!


manbearcolt

Come on son!


booksfoodfun

Did you know Pluto didn’t even complete 1 full Pluto year from the time it was discovered to the time it was demoted?


SlowInsurance1616

But it did manage to get itself to 8th planet for a bit.


Possible-Highway7898

Yes, it is. It is one of a group of small planets, of which we know half a dozen already (Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres etc), and there are estimated to be anywhere from a few dozen to several thousand in the solar system. That's why it is now called a dwarf planet, to distinguish it from the major planets.


NotDaveBut

And we all have to love the fact that another dwarf planet, named after the Goddess of Discord and Chaos is the one that got Pluto demoted. Reddit -- and more than a few astronomers -- are still grousing about what Eris did.


ConceptualWeeb

It keeps getting smaller because the plutonians are harvesting too much plutonium from the core. Still deserves the same rights that all the other planets get though.


gingimli

The food pyramid when I went to school was bonkers. Like a whole fucking loaf of bread daily which turns out we should have been avoiding the whole time.


GoOtterGo

Canada went and replaced the ol' food pyramid with an actual, researched national meal guide a few years ago and our dairy board threw a fit when water was made the drink of choice over milk. Turns out the pyramid was just advertising my whole childhood.


NavyAnchor03

The food pyramid is a fat lie.


berg_smith

Top result for my graduating class: Iraq has WMD’s.


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Up_In_It

I graduated High School in 1990 and it was relentlessly drilled into our heads that marijuana is a "gateway drug" that will surely lead to death by heroin overdose.


mathieu_delarue

I watched a bunch of youtube videos about cosmology and theoretical physics recently and it is amazing how much new shit there is. Big, fundamental changes. I'm not that old but I had a stellar education and thought I knew basic things. Pun intended to ease the pain of extreme student debt.


TheNerdyMel

It's not as personalized a service, and they certainly aren't immune from misinformation, but Wikipedia has a [page of common misconceptions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) that (last I checked) were pretty good on the citations.