re: Should High Schools Have Some Type Of Life Skills Curriculum?

We had a class in HS called bachelor survival. It taught us the basics of cooking, cleaning, sewing, how to dress for certain events, proper dinner/date etiquette, etc. Looking back, it was a pretty solid class.

Start a gofunde for a nice pair of glasses for him. He must be blind to miss a chunk og grass..

It is off the issue, but I bet you had no problem with people of his age going to Iraq in 2003. Then saw many of his peers returning in caskets, while you made no personal sacrifice except acting patriotic and getting a tax cut.

But back to the issue, high schools should gear their education to suit you personally, since you pay taxes.

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Hopefully one of the skills taught in that class is how to get to the fricking point.

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You are helping me prove my point. I could have used a "how to say what you want without writing a fricking novel" course.

We had something like this in school. What I'm shocked about is more how kids have no idea how to cook.

I heard a coworker tell me she had to walk her college aged daughter through boiling water. She had no clue how to boil water.

My 8 year old knows what it means to boil water. (No she doesn't do it unsupervised)

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and not everyone is going to just figure it out once they graduate high school or college.

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And that's the thing. Park of growing up is making mistakes and learning from them, but to a certain degree, there are some mistakes that shouldn't be made.. consistently.

You want to co-write a book with me? We can title it "shite You Would Have Learned If You Had Good Parenting".

Yes, a long with basic economics and a real civics class not taught by some semi-retarded football coach.

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So you want schools to take the place of parents?

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Think about what you just asked?

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He sounded surprised and just paused as if he was waiting for me to tell him more.. maybe a reason why I didn't need his services

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I would have told him I wasn't happy and why before just canning him. If after that he still kept screwing up then finding someone else would be a logical next step.

But to answer your original question

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Should High Schools Have Some Type Of Life Skills Curriculum?

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the problem is that half the teachers need lessons in this area themselves.

Yeah I wish I had shop class, my dad was never a fix it on my own type person, we usually paid someone. Those skills are just good to have