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Mitochondria (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Bio is like a freshman/sophomore course. If you're taking it senior year, you're already behind in life

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You only have one year of bio in high school?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Unless you take AP, where they wouldn't be harping on this particular line about mitochondria, yes. One year of bio.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's different in different regions and it's certainly moved around over the years.

And the point remains, we graduate students who know what the powerhouse of a cell is but not how to do their taxes, work a 401k, put together a realistic budget, plan for major purchases, make a work schedule, or have any saleable skills other than being able bodied.

We aren't preparing people for life, we're warehousing them until college and if they don't go to college we just shove them into the cracks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I understood the point, I agree with that. I wasn't commenting on that part

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

God forbid anyone taking a different path in life than you...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

School systems set the path, and it's pretty standardized when these subjects get taught. They wait until kids get more math skills for physics classes to take place, meaning the less math heavy subjects go first, like bio and earth science.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hey! I resemble that remark!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Bio is like a freshman/sophomore course.

In your opinion, should it be — ie should it be taught at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes.

We don't need even more antivax idiots due to a complete lack of biology being taught in schools.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes.

In that biology course, how would you want the biology knowledge to be taught to the students? Like what form would the knowledge take? For example, would it be that you want students to simply memorize a sort of currently understood concepts in biology? Would it be something else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

None of this line of questioning is related to this thread in a any way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Err, but each of my comments have been directly addressing things that you've stated in this thread, so wouldn't that logically infer that my comments are related to this thread? Explicitly my logic would be: If comment A directly addresses the content in comment comment B, then A is related to B; each of my comments respectively address the content in each of your comments; therefore, my comments are related to your comments ^[1]^. Would you mind outlining exactly isn't related to the thread? Perhaps I missed something.

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  1. "Modus Ponens". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-07-07T05:04Z. Accessed: 2024-12-11T02:36Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_ponens.
    • §"Explanation". ¶1.
      1. If P, then Q.
      2. P.
      3. Therefore, Q.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being tangential to the overall topic doesn't mean you're addressing the actual main point of this thread

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it's important to define exactly how "this thead" is being used in this context. When I use "this thread", it's to refer to our exchange of comments; it doesn't refer to all comments under OP's post. I'm not sure if there's an official definition for the term — perhaps I am not using the term in a commonly understood way. I think it's also important to define "on topic", though that may be a bit more difficult in this context. I would argue that we are on topic, but I don't have a super precise way to define it — perhaps you do?