Is History Class Useless?

There are four main core classes in the modern schooling system: Math, Language Arts, Science, and History. In my high school, they require you to take four years of all of those except History. That actively shows the fact that school systems know History is useless. Compared to Language Arts, Science, and Math, History has a negligible amount of value in developing the skills and abilities to become successful in life. Language Arts, Science, and Math all have practical jobs that can be correlated with, but History doesn’t.

As someone who has taken many History classes, I realize that History puts much emphasis on memorizing facts and writing long essays that many don’t want to write (and don’t). I agree that there are several lessons that History provides, but isn’t taught properly.

As of now, History is taught chronologically, focusing on names, dates, and big events. That again makes it more about memorizing, and it’s harder to apply in the actual world. In our past, we have valuable lessons that students can benefit upon if they are taught rightly. For example, studying the history of American Independence could teach us valuable lessons about our government and political system. Instead of memorizing the branches of the government, there can be projects including making your own government. Teaching the lessons we learned throughout time as a lesson in history leads to people cramming for tests and not retaining any of the knowledge for future years.

Instead of students being forced to write essays and memorizing facts for big tests, there should be elements of this added into their Science, Math, and Language Arts classes. For example, essays focusing on information in Language Arts classes. Aspects of History, such as government, geography, memorizing facts, culture, and economics can be broken down and implemented in other classes. Or perhaps it can be turned into parts of electives. Things that are mandatory to know can be taught in Elementary School where there aren’t much actual subjects, but blurred lines of knowledge.

I always hated history in school. I understand these classes are supposed to help me understand the world, but it is taught ineffectively and few people are learning, anyway. It is not a subject that will help me get a job. Going into deep depth on events that had happened thousands of years ago is a waste. Knowing every detail of how America was colonized doesn’t help, anyway. Unless you work at a museum, you cannot help a company as a history major. After all, museums are basically the lowest forms of entertainment, and I would hate to have to learn random facts for almost no benefit to society. I understand that humans have a tendency to be curious, and History helps quench their thirst of knowledge. But those who don’t care for it shouldn’t have to learn history past Elementary School.

jokes lol