Most Useless subject from School

Stabshauptmann · 26-05-2007 09:35PM

And how could you not love PE. Mens sano in corpore sano

Muineach · 26-05-2007 10:01PM

Am I the only one ever to have done "Agricultural Science" ?

I had a choice of honour's History or honours Ag.Science so I thought I'd have to remember stuff for History, but for Ag. Science I was up against 1,000 farmer kids so I went for the Ag.Science

Had to laugh at the poor kids doing the history, I had to do a project to see if worms would have a difference on how well potatoes grew, yep, and this counted for 25% of the final LC result for Ag.Science
and one more thing, its counted as a science subject for the LC hahahahahaha

Zaph · 26-05-2007 10:07PM

Little-Devil wrote:

I also think Technical Drawing was useless as was Art. I knew from the start i was no Michael Angelo and so did my art teacher. I still passed it in the Leaving Cert tho :-)

I have the distinction of being so bad I failed Art for my Inter Cert (for all you young folk, that's what we had before this fancy Junior Cert yoke). Needless to say I didn't do it for my leaving.

paperclip · 26-05-2007 10:16PM

German. I'm doing pharmacy so I use all the science subjects in my course and I used to go to NCAD so the art came in handy there.

Also, I'm a pretty good cook and seamstress- that'll be the Home Ec working.

However, EVERY time I run into a German, their english is pretty darn near perfect. It would appear I need to specifically go to a little town in the middle of a german speaking nation in order to use it.

Also, meine Grammatik ware furchtbar!

70s · 26-05-2007 10:44PM

OPENROAD wrote:

Has to be Irish.

Well, i speak it every day so it wasn't useless to me.
History was a waste of time. What's the point in learning things that happened in the past?

cson · 26-05-2007 10:46PM

70s wrote:

What's the point in learning things that happened in the past?

Learn from mistakes perhaps?

70s · 26-05-2007 10:54PM

cson wrote:

Learn from mistakes perhaps?

Yes, but why force us to learn it in class - surely if we want to learn it, we should have the choice to pick up a book and read about it in our own time. Anyway, I got an E in my InterCert.

r3nu4l · 26-05-2007 11:00PM

cson wrote:

Well in fairness I presume your leaving certificate contributed to you getting jobs in one form or another So in that case those subjects weren't useless after all...

Hmm, the question was about the most useless subject from school, not the leaving cert! No religion and PE didn't help me get any of my jobs tbh! :rolleyes:

I'm a practicing Roman Catholic but religion was never taught in my secondary school and in Primary school it was only taught from a Catholic point of view. Total waste of time.

As for PE...a total load of crap! Until Inter Cert we 'played' either basketball, soccer, rugby, football or hurling in a mostly unsupervised manner or at least with little interaction from our PE 'teachers'. After the Inter Cert we were allowed to play either bowling, pool or go swimming, completely unsupervised and with no checks from our 'teachers'. As a result, of the 90 guys supposedly doing PE on Friday after lunch about 4 of us did! Total waste of time!

PE and religion, what a waste of time when I could have been learning how to start my own business! That was 16 years ago so maybe things have changed but back then it was crap!

zuutroy · 26-05-2007 11:03PM

70s wrote:

What's the point in learning things that happened in the past?

Thats a comment I'd expect from a teenager or a troll.

cson · 26-05-2007 11:09PM

r3nu4l wrote:

Hmm, the question was about the most useless subject from school, not the leaving cert! No religion and PE didn't help me get any of my jobs tbh! :rolleyes:

You coulda been going for the priesthood

Then it would have helped.

Religion is an examinable subject at leaving cert these days for those of you of a certain vintage for whom it wasn't.

r3nu4l · 26-05-2007 11:22PM

cson wrote:

You coulda been going for the priesthood Then it would have helped.

Yeah but I wasn't!!! Ergo, the piss-poor/lack of 'teaching' of the subject meant it was useless.

cson wrote:

Religion is an examinable subject at leaving cert these days for those of you of a certain vintage for whom it wasn't.

Yeah but it wasn't then...going to show that unless there is some accountability for all teachers then some will do absolutely nothing. Scandalous in a profession that is supposed to be 'educating the future leaders of the country'.

I'm glad to see that the laziest of these teachers won't be getting away with it anymore!

/Until it becomes easier to sack the deadweight teachers there will always be piss-poor teachers. In any other job the same performance would have these people on the dole-queue and rightly so!

Feral Mutant · 26-05-2007 11:38PM

Irish, hands down. I will never use it again and no, it didn't help me for points, it was my worst subject. If it was counted in my points it just would've dragged them down.

r3nu4l wrote:

After the Inter Cert we were allowed to play either bowling, pool or go swimming, completely unsupervised and with no checks from our 'teachers'.

You got to go bowling for PE? I officially hate you now.

projectmayhem · 26-05-2007 11:39PM

hang on, from the title of this thread i am to assume there were useful subjects in school?!

cson · 26-05-2007 11:40PM

Jesus teaching is a great job! Once you actually get a foothold in a school its fairly impossible to get fired no matter how bad you are. You get off early in the afternoons, summers off, you can do grinds for extra cash, get paid €30,000 a year or more (im not sure exactly so excuse my ignorance of the payscales)

Aisling(",) · 26-05-2007 11:42PM

higher level maths has to be one of the most useful things invented.......im conviced pythagorus was having a laugh....n da sin rule...never going to need it!!

gahhhhh.....maths is the bane of my school days!

little miss · 27-05-2007 12:04AM

Chemistry... I have never had to use any of that information again. And since I've forgotten it all now, I know I never will!

r3nu4l · 27-05-2007 12:04AM

Feral Mutant wrote:

You got to go bowling for PE? I officially hate you now.

Unsupervised and we had to pay for it ourselves...hence nobody went (I did play pool once or twice over the 2 years after the Inter Cert.

A few years later I got some bowling lessons because at that time a 1 hour lane lesson was cheaper than a 1 hour lane session so it made financial sense to a poor student. Hence I'm not a bad bowler now and love it as a sport as well as a recreational activity.

Devon · 27-05-2007 12:39AM

It would be a two horse race between history and irish... with history winning by a photo finish.

Blisterman wrote:

So, a lot of people here have been out of school, for a good few years. I've been out 3 now, come June. Looking back, some of the subjects, (i.e. business and French) have had some use in the real world. But a lot of them have not.
What do you guys think was the most useless subject you learned in school?

For myself, I would have said Irish, but I think, an even more useless subject, was geography. It could be a useful subject, but the problem with Leaving cert geography, is how specific and esoteric it is. I know how ox bow lakes are formed, and I know all about the fishing and gas industries of Norway, and yet I couldn't tell you the capitals of many European countries. It has not come in useful once. Even Norwegian people don't care.

Diarmsquid · 27-05-2007 12:43AM

Leaving Cert Honours Maths is soul-destroying. It's not my weakest subject, but everything I take in, I know will never serve any use for me at all at all after my Leaving Cert.

Never will I be required to find the second dirivitave of a curve, or know that sin2A = 2.sinA.cosA

And yet we spend 2 years, 6 maths classes a week learning it.

Donald-Duck · 27-05-2007 12:49AM

Diarmsquid wrote:

Leaving Cert Honours Maths is soul-destroying. It's not my weakest subject, but everything I take in, I know will never serve any use for me at all at all after my Leaving Cert.

Never will I be required to find the second dirivitave of a curve, or know that sin2A = 2.sinA.cosA

And yet we spend 2 years, 6 maths classes a week learning it.

It teaches you problem solving, tedious problem solving at times.

27-05-2007 01:23AM

A subject only becomes useless if you don't use it as an adult...

It only becomes apparent which subjects these are when you DO become an adult, by which time you've completely forgotten what you learnt.

For me, it's religion - don't want to think about it ever (except now & the missus calls me a "pagan"

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Fighting Irish · 27-05-2007 01:25AM

Irish
Religion

These days Computers should be a recognised LC class

Pet · 27-05-2007 02:06AM

Maths is good exercise for your brain, logic and problem solving, etc. I loved it.

Most useless subjects:

History. I never got the point of learning about why such-and-such a war started, and when it happened, and blather...yawn. Thank god I dropped that **** after the JC. Irish was probably my most useless LC subject; all the others I either got As (good for CAO) in and enjoyed (Music, English, Biology), or found useful in college (Chemistry, Maths, German).

WindSock · 27-05-2007 02:30AM

Religion was crap but we had a patient and eccentric nun that put up with all of my questions. I was still too confused to even pay much attention most of the time. I considederd it to be a doss class. The only time I ever liked the class was when a substitute came in in fourth year tought us about HIndi and other religions.

Maths I had no time for, but I understand its supposed to help you think.

History, unfortunatley I didnt like it at all in school, but I love it now. I'm catching up on the stuff I should have learnt

Irish, I didn't see much point of it in school, however I am glad to have learnt some, even if i forget much of it now. Imagine if we didn't have it as a subject at school? there would be mayhem.

Geography and Art were my best subjects, so I wont diss them.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 27-05-2007 03:59AM

Yeah lay off the geography bashing tbh.
Freeze-thaw action is happening all around us!

And technical drawing... brilliant... my copy-book doodles were never more isometrically correct.

My "most useless" vote goes to PE.
Kicking a ball around a muddy field... running in circles... wow, I never knew how to do that before!
My God, I feel so enabled with knowledge! :rolleyes:

70s · 27-05-2007 10:10AM

zuutroy wrote:

Thats a comment I'd expect from a teenager or a troll.

I'm neither a teenager nor a troll. This is an opinion I wished to express. If you don't want to read points of view you don't agree with, then don't log onto Boards.

Zebra3 · 27-05-2007 10:36AM

Religion.

Why not just have fairy stories as a subject? :rolleyes:

Stabshauptmann · 27-05-2007 10:39AM

cson wrote:

Jesus teaching is a great job! Once you actually get a foothold in a school its fairly impossible to get fired no matter how bad you are. You get off early in the afternoons, summers off, you can do grinds for extra cash, get paid €30,000 a year or more (im not sure exactly so excuse my ignorance of the payscales)

In theory, you work till about 6 or 7 correcting all the home work. SO if you're smart you give little homework or correct it in class.

€30,000 for 9 months is great but what do you do with the other 3 months -> yeah Im sure it might be great to sit on your arse but its not as if you're going to get a part time job.

The problem with teaching is thats pretty much it. Your pay doesnt go up a great deal from there.

timmywex · 27-05-2007 10:41AM

useless has to be irish, you never use it out of school!

JC 2K3 · 27-05-2007 10:59AM

Nothing's really useless. The point of doing all these subjects that you'll never consciously use as an adult is part of a broad education.

Most Useless subject from School

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