Why dont schools teach what you really need to know?

Question

Ie...

office politics and how to deal with back stabbing bitchy types.

How HR people think in terms like cvs and all they wacko notions of what certian things mean which are total crap.




Networking.

employee rights.


Typing, operating faxes, copiers etc.


Or subject related.

Ie often fitness training and body building if likely job will involve picking stuff up like say electrician and thick wires.


Or for lighting things like handling heights.


For say the media industry if in the uk... Knowing Soho better then a courior for deliving types round the bakc of dinky hot doughnuts, through the ally, up the firescape, left of the brothel and thats were soho editing is... type type stuff as part of media studies, and different coffees and tape types and handling clients. Using radios.

(so you dont get sacked as dont know).

And whatever is realavant for different areas in the REAL WORLD

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Its no good saying life will teach you...


s often you only have one chance to impress... Say you were trying to get into Industrial light and magic the sfx company...


If you screw it up as were not taught right even though you got good grades in what turned out to be pointless pap/..


thats the end of your carrer, you miss out of getting a house before prices rocket, your career is smashed and life is screwed up... Its important to know this from the start

especailly all the social skills stuff...


like how to seel by flirting...


how to gt popularity and respect... how not to get treated be etc.

Answer 1

I agree, the curriculum is totally irrelevant to what is relevant in real life, for instance, you aint never going to go into tesco and pick up a tin of beans of the shelf and see on the price label "X+Z+Y" are you? its ok if you are going to be a rocket scientist but most of us wont be. Also teachers are as much to blame in the office politics stakes as they look after some of their pupils whose "faces fit" and shun others. usualy these pupils are "snobs" offsprings and get better opportunities than their lesser off peers, for instance, i had a right ***** sorting out my work experience and while i could of been going to somewhere to get a taste of what it would be like as a tradesman, i was put in a shop stocking shelves and sweeping floors!!! I have moved on to better things now and have learned a lot more out of school then i ever did when i was there. In a nutshell the education system failed me. now i learn for me and what i do in the real world.

Answer 2

Because is varied so that kids can chose what they want to do when they leave school. English Maths Science PE its all basics of what people use in real life. How to use a photocopier isn't gunna help a kid who wants to be a plumber or an actor or pilot or anything other than an office worker. You teach kids stuuf like that and they'll wont skills to do anything but work in an office.
If your good a maths then its relevant to whole lot of things not just working in an office.

Basically you'd be telling kids they have to chose their career before they can barely read and write or are old enough to no what they wanna do.

Answer 3

Schools cant teach this because teachers are from the top 20 % at Primary school , the top 20% at Secondary school, fail to be in the top 15% at A level time and so miss out on a decent degree course leading to a decent career, so embittered they eschew burger King for Teacher Training and at the end of the course know absolutely nothing of life and can only parot on about what someone else told them when fronting the class.
"You probably think you know better than your teachers" kids are told, well if this kid had done the subjects he was interested in, including typing, and dropped the ones he hated like PE, he would have been able to type faster and more accurately, and not suffer from the smashed hip he got in PE which put him in hospital for 3 months and still plays up now.

Answer 4

Actually, school indirectly teaches you a lot of those things. In many subjects you have to turn in papers (typing, using computers, searching for information), give presentations which practices oral skills, communicating and such, work on projects with others (eventually you will have to deal with bitchy types, people who do nothing, people who take all the credit) and so forth.
The point of school (especially at primary and secondary levels) is not to teach you Stuff, but to teach you how to learn the stuff you want/need to know (that is, they teach you how to read, write, look for information and work with other people, so you know how to go about learning the things you want to learn).

Answer 5

There are classes to teach you office handy skills. As for how to deal with people and fitness training I would think thats a personal issue that you need to figure out.

Answer 6

All those things you will learn soon enough. Don't be in a hurry to become an adult. At the moment you are in the most favourable time of your life. Don't rush to jump into the rat race you have another seventy-odd years to go.

Answer 7

Because that would make school relavant! Don't get me wrong, I love being able to read and write, but things like algerbra, physics and art (wtf!?!) have helped me not one bit since I left school.
I have a comfortable job as a design engineer and am planning to open my own recording studio soon, but very little of what I learnt at school helped in this. Its what I learnt after I left that really makes the difference for me.
I agree, we need more life skills to be taught!

Answer 8

School DOESN'T TEACH you what you need to know.
But YOU LEARN those skills at school.

School is a community and you will be living in a community.

How to get on with others.
Dealing with authority.
Living within rules and regulations.

Answer 9

i know what you mean-teach them how to budget and save on an average salary, how to iron, how to cook seven decent healthy meals instead of a swiss roll that they will never cook again. instead they teach them how to recognise and take drugs and at the moment my son is learning about the amish in pse!!! im not saying he shouldnt but how is that personal and social education!!!!

Answer 10

I teach children to read and write- I'm pretty sure those are skills you need in 'the real world' aren't you?