Current Events > What's one thing they should teach in schools but don't?

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Id say the importance of credit. Its everything as an adult.

I think they should offer an "Isekai course", about simple chemistry, and stuff that would help you if you were transported into another world.
It'd get kids interested in science, and the scientific method, more than other standard courses.

Also, when they teach history, it shouldn't be just date memorization - that's not history, that's just chronology. History should be the story of why it happened, and how - and the human condition, it is essential.

Basic carpentry and plumbing

Tall, but you cant teach that

Creationism.

*runs*

Gun safety.

Taxes

when I was a senior in high school, there was this class that focused on: taxes, credit, bills, etc.

I forgot some of what was taught, but I appreciated it.

I also had a carpentry class, but nothing related to plumbing.

meditation, breathing techniques, etc (at least they don't do this in the us)

Things I learned in highschool, as part of core curriculum:

basic carpentry & use of shop tools
business applications on PC (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
basic taxation (non-applied; theoretical)
compound interest

And in public school we learned to sew.

I see a lot of people clamoring for taxation to be taught. Part of me thinks that these people merely just skipped/didn't pay attention. :/

as for what they SHOULD teach, idk, more global history and geography rather than whatever i just local. Keep teaching local, but augment it.

How government works and how laws are passed.

Too many don't actually understand how it works. Noted by how some are so genuinely baffled and confused why legislation hasn't passed or why Presidents can't just do whatever they want with a wave of a pen.

NatsuSama posted...

How government works and how laws are passed.

i learned this in grades 9 - 11, too. We also dabbled in it in elementary school.

Pepys Monster posted...

Gun safety.

they teach this in russia