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twesterm on 08 November 2011

I don't think it could hurt to have a financial class in high school, I mainly think high school should be there to 1) prepare kids who don't want to go to college to live in the real world and 2) prepare kids who want to go to college to be able to survive in college.

That just means you need several vocational skills courses to get people started and courses that teach them study skills, provide a decent variety for each of the major college schools (arts, business, engineering, science, etc), and actually teach them consequences.

For what it's worth, high schools seem to do a decent job at offering the correct classes but somehow people got it in their head we shouldn't teach the kids about failure or penalize them. It started in elementary school and somehow it has infected it's way all the way up to high school.

The kids that developed no study skills and never had to do any outside work are going to be in for a very rude awakening that first semester of college, if they even make it through the first semester. As for those kids that skip college, again, rude awakening when people actually expect them to hit deadlines or be fired.



 

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MasterVG71782 on 08 November 2011
twesterm said:
I don't think it could hurt to have a financial class in high school, I mainly think high school should be there to 1) prepare kids who don't want to go to college to live in the real world and 2) prepare kids who want to go to college to be able to survive in college.

That just means you need several vocational skills courses to get people started and courses that teach them study skills, provide a decent variety for each of the major college schools (arts, business, engineering, science, etc), and actually teach them consequences.

For what it's worth, high schools seem to do a decent job at offering the correct classes but somehow people got it in their head we shouldn't teach the kids about failure or penalize them. It started in elementary school and somehow it has infected it's way all the way up to high school.

The kids that developed no study skills and never had to do any outside work are going to be in for a very rude awakening that first semester of college, if they even make it through the first semester. As for those kids that skip college, again, rude awakening when people actually expect them to hit deadlines or be fired.

My high school was a joke. My hardest class, for me at least, was my art class because of the deadlines needed for the projects (it's why my art teacher was one of my favorite ones, well that and the fact that he was pretty cool with us). High schools should be much stricter with their curriculum and the way they run things, as from my experience, they don't do those things. They should make kids want to learn, while at the same time keeping them on their toes. I know it differs from place to place, as I see some schools actually doing these things, but I gather not a lot do.

Maybe a college prep course might be helpful in this regard, or maybe the high schools should just adopt the principles of colleges.



sapphi_snake on 08 November 2011
SvennoJ said:
First aid / cpr.
Common sense, tolerance, ethics, morality, civic rights and duties.

I'm having a hard time imagining what a class liek this would be like.



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sapphi_snake on 08 November 2011
Zlejedi said:
RolStoppable said:
Financial education.

It's unbelievable that schools don't teach you one of the most essential things in life. Most parents don't do a good job at this either, but then again they also didn't have any financial education.

That's a part of maths imho.

If you can count and think logically you don't need special classes for finances.

Wouldn't it be more logical for that to be part of an Economics class?



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"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

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sapphi_snake on 08 November 2011

Mr Khan said:
Geography

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"I don't understand how someone could like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but not like Twilight!!!"

"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

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"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

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deskpro2k3 on 08 November 2011

military academy schools. oh yeah.. that will teach those spoiled brats



sapphi_snake on 08 November 2011
deskpro2k3 said:
military academy schools. oh yeah.. that will teach those spoiled brats

Bad ideea for several reasons.



"I don't understand how someone could like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but not like Twilight!!!"

"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

                                                                               (The Voice of a Generation and Seece)

"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

                                                                               (pizzahut451)

sapphi_snake on 08 November 2011
highwaystar101 said:
Learning to learn... Stay with me.

I didn't do too well in high school. It wasn't that I was a bad student or had poor intelligence, it was that I never really understood how to learn. When I went to University they held seminars on how to learn for new students. I reckon they were some of the most important seminars I attended.

If I recieved those lessons at the start of high school I would have been far better off. I was taught how to process information, how to communicate my ideas and thoughts effectively and how to think critically; it acted as a backbone for everything else I learned while I was there.

As for traditional lessons that should have more focus, I would say maths. People say you don't need it, but they're just plain wrong.

This actually sounds like a good ideea. Now if only teachers would be taught how to teach.



"I don't understand how someone could like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but not like Twilight!!!"

"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

                                                                               (The Voice of a Generation and Seece)

"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

                                                                               (pizzahut451)

sapphi_snake on 08 November 2011
green_sky said:
Some good replies. Respect for elders and others is pretty much missing in the western world. I would also like to say basic finance should be taught. I mean does not have to be deep investment scenarios but information about how credit works, credit cards, interest, mortgage and other loans.

This one person (a friend of a friend) said they buy most of their stuff using a credit card, which is fine. Than they said it is good because they only have to pay like $10 or so dollars a month (the minimum possible payment). I just didn't have any words to explain to them how freaking stupid of a practice that is when one has to pay 18% interest on credit cards.

I agree with general 'respect for others' part, but I disagree with the ideea that elders deserve any special form of respect.



"I don't understand how someone could like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, but not like Twilight!!!"

"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

                                                                               (The Voice of a Generation and Seece)

"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

                                                                               (pizzahut451)

deskpro2k3 on 08 November 2011
sapphi_snake said:
deskpro2k3 said:
military academy schools. oh yeah.. that will teach those spoiled brats

Bad ideea for several reasons.


I think the good out weighs the bad. trained to be healthy, and lots of discipline and respect can go a long way.