THINGS I DIDN’T NEED TO LEARN IN SCHOOL

Reddit asked, “What’s something you learned in school that you’ve never needed?” Some of the responses:
– “Square dancing.”
– “The recorder.”
– “French.”
– “My high school didn’t offer German, which I wanted to learn. They told me to take Spanish because I’d never need to speak German. Got stationed in Germany for a few years afterwards.”
– “Sentence diagramming. Clauses, prepositions, gerunds, interjections, articles, prepositions, determiners and the like.”
– “The first 20 elements of the periodic table. Although SOMETIMES it comes in handy when I’m watching Jeopardy.”
– “Math. I remember my 4th grade teacher repeatedly saying, “it’s not like you’ll be walking around with a calculator in your pocket!” Joke’s on you Mrs. Bartman.”
– “Sine, cosine tangent, cotangent, and whatever the hell secant and cosecant is.”
– “The Dewey decimal system. It was already out of date when they taught it.”
– “Frog dissection.”
– “Cursive. I can’t even remember how to do some of the letters.”
– “Quadratic equations.”
– “Climbing a rope in gym class. Not even once have I ever had to do that.”
– “How to open a combination lock. Now it’s just my nightmare.”
– “Abstinence.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Is there something you learned in school that you actually DO use often?