# How could they \*not\* teach this in school? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2000, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-they-not-teach-this-in-school/45996 "2000-12-17T07:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-they-not-teach-this-in-school/45996/41 "2000-12-19T23:46:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > \*\*I’ve always thought there should be a course in High School called “Origins” or something similar. You spend time looking at each of the various explanations of Where We Came From – the Creation story in Christianity and the Theory of Evolution would be the big ones, but you could also spend some time with Hindu, Buddhist, Native American, and other belief systems. It would be tricky to balance, because you wouldn’t want to advocate any philosophy over any other, but the intent would be to inform students of all the various beliefs people have, particularly with respect to the origin of humankind. The idea, hopefully, would be to make us more mindful of cultural differences, and therefore more open-minded about those differences. > > Of course, in our current cultural climate, the idea would be so difficult to sell that it would never happen. Doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have a positive impact… \*\* In my Pre-IB English II class we spent about 4 weeks on this topic. That’s a fairly large bulk of time for this class. Our main focus was the Bible, studying various OT stories (Isaiah, Elijah, Fall of Man, Abraham). We also studied Greek mythology, which has its own creation myth. To supplement this, we studied creation stories in other cultures (Norse, Hindu, et al.). It was an interesting lesson segment. We had never really looked at the Bible in school before, and religion wasn’t discussed to this extent, even in History. It’s unfortunate that this is still a rare part of the curriculum. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-they-not-teach-this-in-school/45996/42 "2000-12-20T05:58:47Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Scratch1300_ > > I heard something even more peculiar about that peninsula. > > My old boss (a Korean) had told me that Korea was the clitoris of the world. > > Some kind of Far Eastern thing, I guess, but huh??? Whoa! I never heard that one… but it kinda turns me on a little to be living on the clitoris of the world! _Astro goes outside and rubs the ground…_ How does that feel, World? Huh? You want more, baby? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-they-not-teach-this-in-school/45996/43 "2000-12-20T06:00:35Z")
…and, I gotta ask! **Where’s the “G-spot”?** I bet it’s somewhere here in Asia… maybe in Thailand (boy oh boy! If there were ver a place for the G-spot, Thailand is it!!). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-they-not-teach-this-in-school/45996/44 "2000-12-20T21:27:30Z")
1. First-Aid. Simply a must. 2. Inter-personal relationships (ie: HS ends and you’re not popular anymore, learn to be a _real_ person) 3. Hi, Opal! 4. Some sort of class dealing with taking personal responsibility for your actions (or lack there-of). It has been mentioned previously: kids do not know what it means to be responsible to/for something, be it finances, child-bearing or the consequences of their actions. Whether this is the fault of their parents, society or what, I have no idea. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-could-they-not-teach-this-in-school/45996.md?page=2)