Hot take but if you need school to teach you how to pay your taxes there is something wrong with your taxe system.

This idea is overused as heavily dependant on which school you go to. My school taught a finance course, and gave advice on job seeking and interviews.

Also, mitochondria is usually taught at GCSE in the UK at least, which is not the last year of school. 'Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell' is very much a meme, it might have been interesting to use any other piece of useless information taught in schools instead.

Because the last five years have shown, that we have spend way to much time teaching people biology.

Ok. So. Here’s my take.

No high schooler is EVER gonna pay even the slightest bit of attention if we incorporate a “taxes and accounting” class. No shot.

We learn certain general subjects like this in science mainly to learn critical thinking, analytical/logical reasoning skills, how to apply the scientific method (which, yes, can come in handy in many areas of life besides science).

It would probably make more sense to ask the bio teacher for sex ed than economics.

Lol. Mainstream economics is nothing but ideologically charged excuses for the status quo. And you wouldn't learn heterodox econ in high school anyways.

At least we do know how mitochondria works.

It has been taught, you weren't listening during math/economy classes dipshit

Frankly, we should move on from the mitochondria and start talking about the immune system. I want pre-schoolers to know about the interleukins, goddamnit! Let the children in first grade recite a list of adjuvants! And somebody ~~shoot~~shoo away vaccine deniers!

But mitochondria is cool, it has its own dna because it used to be a separate organism. It fused with us, only to be made into a joke by us.

Cause it’s the teacher making this decision, riiiiiiight

Do you guys call your teachers at school (i.e. not university) "professor"?

If we're going to scrap something from high school to add a tax lesson, let's ditch some literature. Over four years my graduating class studied 5 shakespeare plays and a handful of sonnets. Surely we could have cut out Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest if we still have Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and Henry V.

People seem to be conflating economics and personal finance.

Right, because you would go to science class and learn economics.

It'd be like asking your economics teachers why you're not being taught English.