What should be taught in high school that isn't?

Answer 1

Manners, ppl today are so rude and selfish!

Answer 2

Decision-Making, Marriage, and Parenting; as it relates to engaging in all three in the order listed.

The result for society is the children of the newly-educated parents will be better at educating their children on safe sex/abstinance which will begin to drastically reduce teenage pregnancies. Then, those children will be more likely to make wise decisions about their future careers and marriage choices. A good example of the parenting variable would be a Jewish man marring a Christian woman. In our current society, they may truely be in love, but the religious differences will surface as soon as children come into the picture. This happens many times due to a lack of knowledge between the two parties, and will cause serious marital problems once the child is born. With the proper foundation and tools for wise and educated decision-making, these problems may be drastically reduced. We do not need to teach children in school how to be sexually aware or abstinant, we need to teach them how to properly make wise and informed decisions in life. That is when the math, science, English et al will become the most valuable tools they can be; when they can be applied in a well-structured environment.

Answer 3

Well as a banker I think that kids should be taught how to maintain a checking accout properly. There are so many college kids in my area that have no clue how to balance a transaction register actually many people do not even know what a transaction register is. I think they also need to be taught the importance of credit scores and debt to income ratio. Maybe if kids learn that things are not free they would be more incline to not be such babies when they do not get what they want.

Answer 4

Cause and effect. Because of an action, an effect will be generated.

Because someone chooses to drive while intoxicated, or on roads covered with snow and ice, lives will be placed in jeopardy. Because someone chooses to live in areas at risk from volcanic, tornadic, flooding, or other catastrophic calamities, lives will be forfeited.

The fragility of life is not taught in schools because children do not recognize their fragility. They are indestructible. Expose these children to 2, 3, 6, 10, 12, 14, and l6-year old children who are facing death from cancer, leukemia, brain tumors, lying in a burn unit, and you might, just might, reach a few high school students, allowing them to develop a respect for their life, an appreciation of themselves and others.

Parents, will, of couse, reject any school offering courses that deal with death; but, they will take their children to funerals of their siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and subject them to hysterical mourners.

Public schools have been relegated to teaching "subjects", as opposed to life's lessons: morals, integrity, family, social, and community values. Governmental controls over public schools have eliminated a community's input into their own school system as to what can and cannot be taught.

Federal policies and state education departments now make all decisions about what will be taught in day-care centers, pre-school programs, Head-Start programs, kindergarten programs, elementary, middle school, and high school programs.

What I or you think should be taught in any public school is moot.
Only an educational revolution will save our childlren now. I don't see that happening.

Answer 5

High schools should emphasize on what really happened between the indians and those coming to the new world, That the civil war was not a war about slavery but states' rights (Which had a lot to do with slavery), and include theories and ideas that are outside of the text book.

Answer 6

Checkbook balancing, manners, and a basic dance step. Also, how to write a letter. I work at a school and I am horrified to see that eighth grade students can't even write a complete sentence. These are not the lower students, but almost all of them. If I ask a question like what was the theme of the book they will answer "dogs' Instead of " The theme of the book was dogs". It is really very bad!

Answer 7

There should be a 5th course elective with vocational testing to help students decide what they want to be. That way many would take this in 8th or 9th grade and make better choices of courses the remainder of high school.. I just took "college prep" and was clueless when I graduated as to what I might want to become.
There was little if any talk about scholarships to college or how to prepare to win them.

Answer 8

The number one thing that should be taught is money and how to handle it. Also a course on income taxes since they are the most confusing thing in life that people will ever have to deal with. The govt. purposefully makes this stuff confusing in order to get more money from you. Either make it simple or teach the tricks.

Answer 9

How to live, I mean like how to cook, clean, manage money, buy a car, buy a home, investing, social skills, how to do laundry, all those things are essential to a well balanced life, none of that is taught in school. It's a shame.

Answer 10

It would have been helpful in high school to have learned how to manage money, balance a check book, look for deals, do your taxes, I don't know how many jobs I applied for in high school and didn't know how to fill out those darn tax forms! It would help Americans be more economical to have a class like that, we didnt.

Answer 11

COMMON SENSE .

Also, since good manners aren't generally being taught 'at home', perhaps we should burden the high school curriculum with a dose of good manners as well.