We have these weird tests at school where you are supposed to remember the definitions of a word. I have to say that they are completely useless. What I do is memorize the words, get a good grade, and forget that they exist. So if that is all that they do for me, which is nothing because I don't need or want them to talk weirdly, then why do we have them? I really don't see the point of Language Arts class. When will I ever need this weird vocabulary, never! Unless you are going to work in a very specialized job then you don't need this class. At least after you know how to read. I think that basic school is important, you need to know addition and reading and writing and stuff like that, but this really complicated functions and weird words is just a waste of time. Sometimes when I ask my parents about a math problem that is being taught to us now, they have to read the textbook to understand how to do it because they don't need to use that math and they forgot how to do it. Or the schools in the olden days were smart and they didn't waste time on stuff that they new would be useless to most people out there today.