what was the most useless subject you studied in high school

[dbenjamin]

i have never had a need to use algebra nor has history really been usefull nether has biology

I'd have join everyone in saying Algebra .....I just tolerated the subject , worked pretty hard to pass.

[pmagalei]

Back then I thought the most useless subject for me was typing. First day I walked in the classroom. There were no guys at all. A girl dominant class. I sat in there feeling so embarrassed 'cause all the guys(friends) are going to make fun of me. So the next day, I went to see a counselor so I can change my class to JROTC. But now I reflected back on the choices I've made. It really affected my future. Now, I think about my choices and how I wish that I could stay in that class and learn the proper hand and fingers on the keyboard. Even til this day, I am still typing with my index fingers whereas my son in 8th grade is like a pro at the keyboard. Even after high school, I never took keyboarding in college for that matter, and am suffering the consequences for my choices. Hey typing/keyboarding is just as important for women as it is essential for men.

[froggylover227]

French. I liked it at the time, but I haven't used it since, and I don't plan on it!

[jwallbank]

I always enjoyed History, Geography (they don't even teach that anymore) and math, actually English was my most unpopular subject (couldn't deal with synonyms and punctuations). I guess the subject I found the most useless was Wood Shop, I never used it after school. Never had an interest in woodworking.

[remediagirl]

Yep! Algebra.   

[o2bnocn]

In high school it would have to be Keyboarding only because I already knew how to type. In college it would western civilizations.

[tangiechan]

Everyone is saying math, but math is really important. It's not useless at all. Math and science subjects are the important.

In my opinion, I'd say it was health class. It felt useless to me because the teachers had us just copy from the book every other day. Didn't learn a thing. Most of it was about pregnancy prevention and STDs (and it didn't help the other students obviously since a lot of them were still getting pregnant).

[nannycoe1]

Cooking is home ec

[devilroljin]

People usually think that some or most subjects in school are useless, and to a certain extent, they are right. However, even though I can find many examples of how you use that knowledge in real life, the point of going to school is not to apply 'classroom content' in your daily life. Think how many times you've apply specific classroom content in your daily life? My guess is, not very often. The real point of going to school is to exercise your brain. Algebra is based on logic; when you learn it and practice it, you are really learning how to solve logical problems and to think logically. Other subjects will develop or continue development of same or different parts of your brain. How many times have you applied a specific formula with the exact same variables you learned at school in "classroom algebra' in real life? Now, how many times have you made a recipe smaller because you are cooking for less persons than it's designed for? Or how many times while grocery shopping you noticed your favorite product comes in two different sizes, and you've actually figured out the better deal or which is cheaper in a per-ounce basis? For the recipe and which is cheaper situation, you use algebra to solve it, although you don't realize it.

Think of a professional athlete, a basketball player for example, and all the time he spends in the weight room doing bench presses, leg presses, back squats, curls, etc. Of course he practices his drills like dribbling and shooting that help him in the game, but when is he ever going to need to lift heavy objects during a game? probably never (unless a basketball and all of its 22 ounces qualifies as a heavy object and it justifies all the heavy lifting in the weight room). Then why does he still do it? he conditions and builds up his muscles so that he can perform the skills he needs to do during the game, better. Same goes for the material you learn and practice in school, and your brain.

[tammypete]

My most useless subject would have to be Algebra I and II....

[bigfoot951]

No disrespect intended, but the thinking here blows my mind.  You hear this all the time and people just don't get it.  We don't learn subjects or anything specific in school so that we will have that knowledge.  A college degree does not show that we have learned anything.  It shows that we are capable of learning.  That is why it is important to have a variety of subjects from which we learn as that will increase our ability to learn.

[briannajeanxo]

i agree with everyone else who has said algebra..useless!

[jmccaskill]

I don't think any subject has gone unused and that is probably true for those that think they were wasting time in a class like algebra. Algebra teaches some fundamentals like you can do anything in an equation as long as you do the same thing on both sides of it, life has many absolutes similar to this 'law', i.e. whatever you do has consequences somewhere else!! And as said before, chemistry is EVERYWHERE even if it is not noticed as such. Even off beat subjects contribute to ones way of thinking and viewing the world around them.

Believe me, I was no scholar, quite the opposite, but I recognize now how things I studied (?) have fit into my life and thinking. To answer the question though, I would say sociology was probably the least useful of all the courses.

[kroberts13]

sorry folks but i have to put this in here GYM class.

[skrogman]

I am also going to go against the grain here, and I am going to say the class that was the biggest waste of my time was Art.  Some people and I am one, just are not artistically talented and that is not necessarily a bad thing.

But, I just all around had a problem with my high school my whole senior year.  I had all my credits but two at the end of my junior year and was very upset that the school had my schedule written as study hall, Advanced Math, study hall...lunch...Band, study hall, Physics...AAAAAH it killed me!!  The main reason was I had an after school job and tried to see with a schedule like that why could I just not get out of school early and get more hours on the clock, but nope.

Oh well, that was my two cents worth.  Sorry, I rambled on.