For me they were only presented in a brief assembly in an auditorium (with the exception of Sex Ed). Not the ideal place to learn these things in detail. I wish schools would have given me these classes. School just seems like a glorified daycare, where if you're not at a school that focuses on academics, you can just float on by until you're kicked out because you're too old.
@buttscarleton You assume every public school offers those as electives. They do not. I was the second graduating class of my HS; it was a budding HS but well run. What was offered, elective wise, was taught well, but I couldn't chose Latin or Cantonese as an elective; my choices were French or Spanish and I had to choose one. Considering I grew up in Texas, French was the logical choice if I wanted to actually learn anything. The ONLY economics class available required both a college professor willing to teach the class, and then being accepted into it on the condition you also take a civics class and have also achieved a 3+ score on the AP History test.
So you admit that your school was an anomaly and that makes your argument invalid. Most public schools offer a cooking class, a public speaking class, sex Ed and computer classes that won’t teach you cs but will set you on the path if that’s what you’re looking for. The problem is most high schoolers won’t take the classes that will suit them best for the future. Also time management should be learned by experiencing deadlines what would a curriculum even look like for that class.
Leave religious beliefs for world history; only place it belongs besides side mentioning when accrediting scientists with theories, and for the most part shouldn't even be considered outside of Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Mendel and..... that crazy indian dude?
I would say that the best education would be when the family and schools are working to teach kids the same thing.
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A lot of kids don't have competent parents who will teach them these things, it's better schools at least bring some of these subjects up rather than no one explain them to them at all. Also imagine if we had teachers who specialize in some of these subjects, it would definitely help with job creation. We need more teachers (and more funding for schools) in this country after all.
It takes a village.
If you own a company do you really want idiotic employees? No. It's in the collective interest for everyone to be educated.
Education is, by far, the best example of why socialism is needed to check unregulated capitalism.
I'm a high school sociology teacher. I just finished teaching my students about "the Family in Sociology". And I can tell you that from a Functionalist viewpoint, almost all 10 of those things are the responsibility of the Family.
And then you need a competent teacher. I took two years as well, I can't do shit beyond CAD.... although I'm really good at that (the book was a great teacher).
At my school there’s required classes that cover all of this that you have to take over the span of 4 years. Everything except cooking, but it does cover nutrition.
My history teacher taught us how to prepare a tax form and how to balance a check book.
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I really wonder what schools you people went to where ANY of these were classes.
We had a home ec class that taught you how to balance a checkbook once and then I never used a checkbook again. If the point of school is to produce mindless worker drones then at least give us the tools we actually need
How can anyone NOT balance a checkbook? Money out (checks written and fees) minus money in (deposits plus interest) equals how much less you have now vs. how much you had the last time youmreconciled all the statements.
If you own a company do you really want idiotic employees? No. It's in the collective interest for everyone to be educated.
Education is, by far, the best example of why socialism is needed to check unregulated capitalism.
But that's why we have YouTube and Google
We had a home ec class that taught you how to balance a checkbook once and then I never used a checkbook again. If the point of school is to produce mindless worker drones then at least give us the tools we actually need