- xpunkprincessx:
- But that doesn't mean that it needs to be required.
I don't know about you, but the mission statement of my school reads:
"The mission of the [School District Here], in concert with family and community, is to provide students with the opportunity to reach their maximum potential in order to function successfully in a changing world."
I'm pretty sure functioning successfully means understanding people. Understanding people, means understanding their culture. Thus that would be why it is required. High School is meant for us to get a well-rounded, strongly based education to set us up for a lifetime if we choose to leave, or to set us up for a college then the lifetime afterward. High School is meant to be the foundation of our education, and they can't just cop out because we don't nessecarily need to know that information, even if we do. I think making this world a little bit better would start with understanding the reasons behind people decision-making processes. By understanding, we may not be so freaking apt to, oh I donno'...kill eachother for what we believe in. It may be a far stretch, but I think it's worth a try.
Understanding removes illknowledge, and may help with the ignorant extremists in our world (That's a description of a kind of extremist, not all). I think we can deal with the people who continue to kill if we at least
tried to teach them differently.
Not to mention, if you don't care about the greater good crap, it helps us to not screw up in the ways we already have. There is a lot of history in religion. It also allows us to understand eachother so as to no go around insulting eachother and acting like morons. I'm pretty sure both were mentioned earlier and need to be reiterated.