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#21
Comon sense. Also basic skills like cooking, basic mecanics, changing electric plugs, tires, sewing, putting back buttons, cleaning your own electronic devices. And how to deal with emotional issues
9points
#22
Financial well-being and just how to budget, handle credit, pay bills... all that. I didn’t learn how to be financially responsible until my 20’s and 30’s. Never discussed in school.
9points
#23
Basic survival skills, from starting a fire to what to do if you're being followed to not leaving your drink alone at the bar.
8points
#24
Maybe instead of making us memorize stuff, they can help us understand it. And thats whats wrong with the American education system.
8points
#25
Why the dress code is so relaxed on boys but not girls 😤
7points
#26
Where food comes from. I mean there are people who don't understand that french fries come from potatoes. That food is grown on farms.
7points
#27
The basics of experimental work, pre-clinical and clinical. I'm certain it would obliterate all the distrust people have towards science and scientists by teaching people the how's, why's and when's of experimental work and how science is surprisingly resilient to fraude.
7points
#28
How the American healthcare system works. How insurance works. What a premium, deductible, copay, and coinsurance is. How to find a doctor and make an appointment. Look, I know a lot of people hate our system. But for now, it’s all we got and we need to teach people how to work within it until we can get something better. Raise educated voters.
7points
#29
Economics, budgets, cost of living, how to read (yes, my friends’ son graduated and can barely read), mental health, how to further their education without getting massively in debt….
7points
#30
Sex Ed. Kids need to know what the heck is going on in their bodies, what is what (!) and how to avoid std's and pregnancy.
7points
#31
Traffic education. It's quite amazing how ignorant a lot of people are about their rights and duties in traffic. Even as a pedestrian you have to comply to traffic laws and I see kids driving bikes and bicycles in blissful unawareness of the risks but also of their legal responsibilities. Not not mention older drivers who got their driver's license 30 years ago and don't even know what newly introduced traffic signs mean. I surely do not hope we're heading for a situation where people do not know traffic laws anymore because self-driving cars are programmed to obey traffic laws for them.
7points
#32
How to do the taxes. I have no clue and I’ll be moving out in a year
6points
#33
I think that schools should teach American Sign Language so other students can talk with deaf people.
6points
#34
Native American History. In the US we are taught history from the moment of European settlement but no mention of the natives we stole the land from.
6points
#35
To read and write in cursive so that you can understand what messages our forefathers (and mothers) left from the past.
A good example is The Declaration of Independence......
Many schools do not teach this anymore. Kudos on the ASL and ESL mentions!
6points
#36
Mental Health. What coping skills are. How to be emotionally aware of yourself. That you don't have to believe everything you think.
6points
#37
Martial arts.
I’m currently a second-degree black belt in Taekwondo, and I’ve been training for over a decade and through two diagnoses. Looking back as a college freshman, I learned more net valuable material at my academy from just my first 5 years of training than my entire 13 years of school. (Integrity is an undeniably important trait of an ideal employee; how are proofs relevant to taking pictures?) For example, self-control could have prevented many tragedies from the past, and not every well-known person has self-discipline nor respect.
Maybe it doesn’t teach everything essential about an employee, but it covers a lot more than normal K-12 school.
Also, self-defense comes in handy on the off chance that something should happen. I’ve learned street-fighting techniques, knife defense, and even gun defense.
I’m currently a second-degree black belt in Taekwondo, and I’ve been training for over a decade and through two diagnoses. Looking back as a college freshman, I learned more net valuable material at my academy from just my first 5 years of training than my entire 13 years of school. (Integrity is an undeniably important trait of an ideal employee; how are proofs relevant to taking pictures?) For example, self-control could have prevented many tragedies from the past, and not every well-known person has self-discipline nor respect.
Maybe it doesn’t teach everything essential about an employee, but it covers a lot more than normal K-12 school.
Also, self-defense comes in handy on the off chance that something should happen. I’ve learned street-fighting techniques, knife defense, and even gun defense.
5points
#38
Lego Technic and Lego robotics.
5points
#39
Pre-colonial history of Africa and the Americas. In my country they pretty much consider history started when europeans entered.
5points
#40
Everyone should take cooking and basic home Ec. Classes. Knowing how to cook and sew is actually really useful
5points