@hyc@mastodon.social @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @r@glauca.space @mcc@mastodon.social @decay@gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com @amarioguy@social.treehouse.systems It's such a common error. If anything you should be LEADING with the why. My pet conspiracy theory why they don't, is that most curricula are designed by committee and lean toward including everything that sounds like it might be useful. This lack of discretion means that most of the material IS pointless for the students, and "well you might need it some way" is cover for "we can't explain why because there IS no good answer behind the curtain." And in situations where there IS a good answer, there's so much bad faith precedent that the students can't tell the difference. This is why I think project-centered education would be revolutionary. It leads you to discover things in contextualized, justified, concrete ways.