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ClownTamer 11 points ago +11 / -0

If we were to have ‘PE’ or breadth requirements in college or elsewhere, military training should definitely be among them. As should finance. We could do without entire subjects from K12 through undergrad, on into graduate school. If we’re going to make something an essential requirement outside of the core focus of a major, or in HS, it should actually impart essential skills and practical knowledge. Hell, make a breadth requirement be minoring in a practical trade like plumbing or construction or being an electrician. I went to a top tier University and people there would have been infinitely better off being ‘forced’ to learn personal finance and plumbing alongside their chosen field than take Erotic Literature 69. Some of the optional PE classes included what’s basically ‘Peaceful walking’. Not joking.