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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
It’s a hard pill to swallow, but they probably did, and you didn’t care. I don’t know you, but in my experience, teachers tried very hard to engage students and to stress real world importance, and more often than not it’s met with apathy
gpt
Math teacher here.  We spend a shit ton of time trying to make the stuff engaging and relatable to kids.  It has a marginal effect.  Increases interest from maybe 10% of students to 15% of students.

Most kids don't care because no matter what we do, they're still at school and school is inherently not interesting when compared to everything else that they do in their lives.