Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - The Right to Answer and a Busybody

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I love how his classmates aren't "intentional" about excluding him. He's a bit of a spectacle when spotted but it's not like anyone is "ew it's him", it's always "Ah! It's MC! Yatta!"
 
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Ah the classic, “I don’t know if I’m right but...” you are relieving any type of responsibility for being wrong, quite lovely
 
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Back in school if answered right you get called a nerd if you answered wrong you get laughed at. You can't win.
 
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"I spy a Shiraishi-kun, time for a Gacha pull", lmao
I love how he's a lucky sighting, like a unicorn. There was a similar mention in chapter 1😂
 
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I'm pretty sure that there is NO situation in which Australopithecus would come up in a high school class. High school biology does not extend to palaeoanthropology.
 
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I don't. Am Welsh. The school I went to was considered highly unusual in that they had a Geology class in High School. For that matter, most universities at the time didn't offer courses in Palaeontology at undergraduate level (though I went to one that did). So count me surprised that high school kids would learn any of this.
 
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@The5thSeraph Pretty sure in countries where education isn't total garbage we learn about those things as soon as middle school, and a bit more in depth in high school....
 
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Yet most posters here are americans, and education in the united states IS total garbage. Had that confirmed by all the family I've got over there.
But hey, a lot of things change in a few decades. I'm nearly 40. What I know of the high school curriculum is severely out of date. It might have been updated to include palaeoanthropology for whatever reason. Where I went to school there was no such thing as "middle school". Just Primary and Secondary.
 
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@The5thSeraph yeah, I used the term middle-school as is for the age group it encompass, easier for everyone to understand....
But as for curriculum, I learnt about it at the age I talked about, and I too am nearly 40, different countries different education, but sad to see some countries having such a bad education...
 
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@Daerovius
You keep saying that, but why would not having palaeoanthropology at high school level constitute a bad education? Do high school kids even need to know that stuff? Not saying they need to know half the shit that is crammed into them in any case, but still. You don't need to know what an australopithecus is even for getting a rudimentary idea of how evolution works. So do they know what plesiodapiformes were too? What about far further back? Do high school kids know what a cynodont is? Do they know the defining physiological developments of protomammalian evolution?
Or are you, as I suspect, just opting for the approach of declaring any education other than the one you got "bad"?
 
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@The5thSeraph It's just one exemple of a much larger problem, be it science, history, geography, math, etc... There's a lot lacking in many countries education curriculum... And things are getting worse byt the day... That's a problem... But if you're fine with having entire generations of dumbasses not knowing shit about anything, good for you... But, I have concerns about the future with thing going like this...
 
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@Daerovius
Firstly, school won't make idiots into non-idiots. At best it will only make them into educated idiots. The primary purpose of the compulsory education system is to condition children to follow orders from designated authority figures in a communal environment. That is why most of the information crammed into them is just general knowledge / trivia, most of which wouldn't amount to much without furthering it in University. And that leads into the second point:
What schools do NOT do is teach students practical life skills that could make or break their chances when they're eventually thrown out into the big wide world. Yet more evidence that much like with social media platforms, the schools don't exist to help the students function in society, but to program the students to be more usable BY society. Nevermind that being able to keep themselves alive would normally be deemed a prerequisite for being useful to anyone.

At least the average student MIGHT at some point in their life need to know that chunks of potato expand in pure water and shrivel in salt water due to osmosis. The odds of them ever needing to know the differences between Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus afarensis, or how they relate to modern Homo sapiens (the "sapiens" part is an exaggeration, frankly) are far lower.

And I'm sure a smart but uneducated person makes for much better company than an overeducated idiot crammed full of data but with zero understanding of it (which there are plenty of now, courtesy of the Internet).
 

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