Thank you.
That class exists, it's called parents/home. If you don't know those things, it's your Parents fault. High school should not be responsible for this
Yeah if your folks aren't doing this for you, you can go visit the guy at the tyre shop, someone teaching lessons at a craft store, and a social worker sometime before you exit high school and receive about the ssme training. Plus you'll make friends and probly get a good job along the way.
My kid's high school has this class. It's listed as 'Being an Adult 101'. I made him sign up as a junior. They learn how to balance a checkbook, turn down free credit, change tires and oil. They file proxy tax forms and have to create a business plan explaining college cost vs future earnings.
We did things like cookery, changing a plug and such in school. We also did gardening - learning how and when to plant food. I remember learning how to sew buttons on too. I do think they should teach banking and budgeting in maths though.
Auto shop class
Drivers-ed
Algebra 1
Home economics
Cooking class
Agriculture
Health
Child Development
If you took these then you learned all this. School does teach you all you need. If you care about your education than you will see it does prepare you for everything.
My school offers all of those classes but until my senior year (this year) I had no time to take any of them. I had to finish all the government required classes before thinking of taking those. This year I would've had the time but instead I'm working on a program where I can go to a technical school free for 2 years through welding.
As a dad, I often offer my kids to come help or observe doing one repair/maintenance/miscellaneous task. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they're busy with homework. But, I can't help but notice that they have time for social media by the hour. So, I'm not saying to skip homework or sports, but you could do certain important things like homework in place of two hours on Facebook/Twitter/Funsubstance, and come learn the various tasks when I'm doing them, especially if you're told a couple days before that the XYZ task will be done Saturday morning for example.
The opportunity to learn these things is presented to most, but it's not always taken. The toilet needs to be fixed right away, not in three days when you think you'll have more time. Turn down a bunch of opportunities to help, and at some point you may not get asked any more.
Not much actually. One significant thing that does change is that you legaly become an adult and can now be held directly responsible for your actions... which depending on what that is, can also become part of your permanent record.
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So be cautious as to the sorts of shenanigans you get up to.
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Wise words Smitty.
Nothing else really changes. Happy early birthday.
I've learned mostly everything on that list (some from my parents and on my own) and I did not take one class for it. Really though, whether you were taught or not, you really are kind of forced to learn many of these after high school. Unless all you do is go home from college and watch game of thrones all day long while your parents still take care of your basic needs until your 25.
I agree with the expectation for your parents to teach you things such as basic cooking and ironing, but when your parents can barely understand English so they can't properly fill out their taxes and have to get an accountant to do it for them, I think it's pretty rude to say that parents should teach you everything.
Kids are required to go to school from ages 3-16 (approximately) for 8 hours a day, and for what? To learn about things they'll probably won't use again. Whilst that time is being wasted, you could at least fit an hour into their schedule of how to actually take care of yourself and survive in the world, because let me tell you something honey, Pythagoras isn't going to rise up from his grave and help you mortgage a house and fill out your taxes for you.
plus part of the point of adding these classes is to BETTER children, so that they have tools maybe their parents didnt, to help them live even better lives. i mean thats what we all want for our children, right, to have better lives than us? and the world is ever changing, things dont all work now like they did when our parents were kids, or when we were kids.
Too many pole who weren't prepared to have children had children. This is why many don't learn at home what we are supposed to. We can definitely benefit from learning life things in school. it would make better teens because when we feel productive it's rewarding so we want to do more good stuff.
This used to be the shit that parents taught, but that seems to be less and less of a thing over time, so I guess mandatory classes on this stuff will become necessary eventually.
PARENTS JOB. TOO MANY LAZY ASS PARENTS EXPECTING SOMEONE ELSE TO DO THEIR JOB.
Also, a parent should teach their kids how to be treated and how others should be treated.
You could find a decent video or wiki on any of these and learn it in a few minutes. It would be a waste of time to have this class, and you do learn most of these in various other classes anyways.
That class exists, it's called parents/home. If you don't know those things, it's your Parents fault. High school should not be responsible for this
Drivers-ed
Algebra 1
Home economics
Cooking class
Agriculture
Health
Child Development
If you took these then you learned all this. School does teach you all you need. If you care about your education than you will see it does prepare you for everything.
The opportunity to learn these things is presented to most, but it's not always taken. The toilet needs to be fixed right away, not in three days when you think you'll have more time. Turn down a bunch of opportunities to help, and at some point you may not get asked any more.
.
So be cautious as to the sorts of shenanigans you get up to.
Nothing else really changes. Happy early birthday.
Kids are required to go to school from ages 3-16 (approximately) for 8 hours a day, and for what? To learn about things they'll probably won't use again. Whilst that time is being wasted, you could at least fit an hour into their schedule of how to actually take care of yourself and survive in the world, because let me tell you something honey, Pythagoras isn't going to rise up from his grave and help you mortgage a house and fill out your taxes for you.
Also, a parent should teach their kids how to be treated and how others should be treated.