r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Theoretical-Panda • 18d ago

Your average Fox News commenter.

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u/Cambot1138 18d ago

Can confirm!

Source: Actual high school civics teacher.

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u/MattieShoes 18d ago

The comments saying they don't teach regular stuff in school always get to me. They fucking taught it, you just didn't learn it.

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u/parasyte_steve 17d ago

To be fair they didn't teach how to file taxes to us

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u/MattieShoes 17d ago

Yeah, I had to learn that on my own too. I'm 100% in support of a personal finance class. Not just how to file taxes, but what are stocks, bonds, derivatives, securities, equities, what's a 401k, what's an IRA, what's a brokerage account, how you'd go about investing, what you should be worried about when buying a house, how compounding returns work, lets log you into your ssa.gov account, etc. None of the concepts are hard -- it's just a lot of terms you aren't familiar with.

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u/CptMcTavish 18d ago

You guys have teachers specialised in teaching children about civics? It's a great car, but you are taking it a bit too far.

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u/Cambot1138 18d ago

Civics is required for freshmen. I’m qualified to teach history and geography as well.

I don’t know what your last sentence means.

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u/CptMcTavish 17d ago

I was being stupid on purpose, referring to the Honda Civic.

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u/Cambot1138 18d ago

I get it now….duh.

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u/Fujisawrus_Reks 18d ago

Just because somebody teaches civics doesn't mean that civics is the only thing that they teach. Squares and rectangles my dude.