'In health class, we had to plan a wedding': 20 useless things people actually learned in school

Every school has its unique quirk within the curriculum that makes absolutely no sense. If there is one universal truth to education that extends from pre-K age through senior year of high school, it's that at any given moment, you are likely to encounter a head-scratching methodology to the way a certain subject is taught. 

Health class is always common fodder. Ensuring that everyone knows how to square dance is another bizarre lesson. I'm sure when students reach adulthood and are trying to wrap their brains around doing taxes correctly, they will be thinking, "if only I mastered square dancing, everything else would fall into place." When I was in elementary school, we had a P.E. teacher who enjoyed forcing us all to do 15 push-ups if we didn't catch a football with no warning. Scrawny children with poor hand-eye coordination like me were understandably scarred from this experience. Years later, all I learned from this experience was that this teacher was a very unhappy man who needed to flex his false sense of authority to make himself feel better. I guess knowing that you will encounter folks like that in life is the only valuable lesson there.

Keep scrolling below for these top useless things people learned in school, according to this r/AskReddit thread. For more stories like this, check out this post about a teacher who made HR scramble when they took their much-needed vacation.