Now realize I would have been much better off learning to build a log cabin rather than taking French language classes.
And I really haven’t ever needed my Algebra I & II and Geometry skills. Wish instead I had learned to repair a car.
Of course, some people will say I could have learned those skills on my own time. But life got in the way, and I didn’t. Would have been much better to have learned those things in my early teen years (and no, my parents didn’t have those skills to pass on to me).
I failed algebra in HS. My only F. A and some B all other classes.
No one ever asked me about my grades.
I took the full three year auto mechanics program.
This modern era stuff is a little beyond me but I can work on most of my vintage autos. An occasional YouTube refresher helps.
Oh, IDK, I took French for 5 years, starting in 8th grade, no English in the classroom starting on day one, spoken French every single day, a bit of writing, learned French Christmas Carols, no literature (zero).
I am still more or less fluent 50 years after, love to go to Quebec, which is close to home, and I go to France when I can and beat down their pathetic attempts to speak to me in English.
A lot of study is like weightlifting, except on your brain.
What's happened in public schools is disgusting.
My kids, or at least six of them, have taken Spanish for a total of 25 years between them, and they can't speak a word of it.
And I really haven’t ever needed my Algebra I & II and Geometry skills. Wish instead I had learned to repair a car.
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You maybe. But I use that every day as content creator/ media designer
Those digital lighting angles ain’t gonna calculate themselves.