Should schools teach the following courses in classrooms...?

Question

1. Money management
2. Credit importance
3. Harsh realities of life
4. Drug use and consequences
5. Relationships/Divorce/Marriage
6. Alcohol Abuse

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Answer 1

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Please. Don't tell me this is what schools are teaching. Please.

It is so pragmatic; it wreaks of lecturing, of the teacher being omniscient and having answers to things s/he probably doesn't have--or even forces the teacher to be a hypocrite for trying to teach what he/she doesn't know or follow. And it deals with the most mundane and boring and yet, frightening stuff.

This is for parents to help kids with, not for school, and if parents (as is too much the case) aren't available, then teach, teach, teach beauty and art, and math and science and language and history and all the academic stuff.

It is in having a good education that a critical and analytical mind is created, a searching, vital, curious mind, a mind with imagination, joyful about her/his future and capable of doing meaningful, useful things.

You help to stimulate, inspire, educate a mind like this, and that person can figure out that mundane stuff by him/herself, or know to whom to go for the answers, and by that time, it'll be a cinch, take a few minutes, and not be something to dwell on and sit through the summer being taught by a stranger about these family and personal issues.

Note: Drug lectures have been proven to increase the use of drugs in schools; the same with sex education--although in this instance, the safety taught outweighs the promiscuity, imho. (It's not the place to teach it; a warm-fuzzie plea from one's loving and trusted--would it were so--parent has far more effect.)

And, again, educate that child! Give him/her some good tools for survival, and I mean, good, clear thinking and a great imagination, and those questions will get answered in good time, and by the student, her/himself--the only one who can answer in a way that will make her/him follow that answer, anyway!

Love and a solid foundation answer all those questions or lead one to get the answers on his or her own. Summer school? Ugh. "Please, Mom, give me a foogin break!"

And a P.S.
I feel sorry for you who think your credit report is your report card, your Academy Award, your measure of greatness and decency and character. A credit report is a mean mofo made up to scare you into paying your bills to the "The Man." It's the most materialistic "judgment of character" I can imagine and it makes me sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we need it to get stuff, even housing, but it's time to revolt against this shallow, materialistic and unfair way of "judging" human beings!!! I, for one, hate the whole thing. (If I were lending someone money, renting a space to someone, I'd get character references, I'd meet with the person; some late payments--bfd; a forgotten payment, "Oh, no, the end of the world!" Stop all this. It creates panic in totally decent people. It's just onorous--judging, judging??? a person's character by how and when he or she pays her bills? It really is the lowest of the low--and so, so clearly created to serve not the individuals, but those at the top of the system; I say shrod them, and be free for more important thinking and duties.) Get out there and inspire those kids!!! Excite them! Educate them--they're kids; don't intimidate them (just to serve this corrupt system).

Answer 2

Yes, absolutely. In my school, we were actually told a lot about drug use and consequences and alcohol abuse. We also had a veeery not documented 1 year Economy class, but nothing else from your list.

Answer 3

All really important and the closest I've seen is "life skills" for 9 weeks in the special ed classrooms.

They also need to add "don't take out a bunch of student loans you'll be paying off the next 50 years" to that list.

Answer 4

All these courses are really practical & would help the kids. I would however leave out 'harsh realities of life' .....let them learn this on their own as there is no escaping this course.
While you're on this topic....how about devising a course for potential parents to let them be aware how 'your life changes after kids' & how this role ( parenting) will be the most important one you are going to undertake :)

Answer 5

Good idea in theory, but how would you get the message across? Kids just like to learn the hard way. Besides, no matter how well you're taught, you can't learn to succeed until you learn to fail.

Answer 6

Definitely.

Answer 7

Yes to all, it may really help a lot of today's youth. They also need to teach it at night school and college. To bad you can get started.

Answer 8

they teach #'s 4 5 & 6 in health class. and they teach a little bit of money stuff if you are in economics. but i think they should teach those things even more.

Answer 9

I don't think it would be a bad idea to teach those things. I also think that a class should be taught on manners.

Answer 10

Definately! Besides when is calculus and Hamlet used in real life?