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Financial literacy was also taught in school. In fact a lot of "why didn't they teach this school?!?" stuff was taught in school, people just forgot or opted o

Financial literacy was also taught in school. In fact a lot of "why didn't they teach this school?!?" stuff was taught in school, people just forgot or opted out of that class. I went to a shitty public school in the middle of nowhere and they taught us to budget, handle bank accounts, etc. We even had fake jobs with fake bills and had to make a household budget. They even offered a class with fake babies that girls had to carry around to teach them parenting skills. The problem with teaching life skills is that they are not retained if they are not relevant to a person's situation. Kids don't have bills or jobs; money is an abstract concept to them. With this in mind, financial literacy should not be taught in schools, it should be taught to 20-30 year olds who long since left school.

eatonphil 5y ago
In my (not special) public school in the middle of nowhere, everyone (boys and girls) had to take multiple years of home ec: sewing, paying bills, understanding sexually transmitted diseases, and caring for a (fake) baby you take home. They were extremely easy classes taught by not-the-best teachers (often gym teachers) but still pretty informative and I did learn how to sew pretty well. My wife attended well-known private schools in the US and Korea and never learned these skills.
- ultrarunner 5y ago
  Perhaps that is because those skills are stereotypical or political and not actually all that valuable for success in life. I highly doubt that your wife (or humanity in general) would fail to care for babies were it not for home ec classes. However, some groups may, for better or for worse, have opinions predicting what happens to teen pregnancy rates in the face of such experience.
imtringued 5y ago
This applies to school education in general. We learn a lot but never get to use it so we do the natural human thing, we forget about it.

eatonphil 5y ago

In my (not special) public school in the middle of nowhere, everyone (boys and girls) had to take multiple years of home ec: sewing, paying bills, understanding sexually transmitted diseases, and caring for a (fake) baby you take home. They were extremely easy classes taught by not-the-best teachers (often gym teachers) but still pretty informative and I did learn how to sew pretty well. My wife attended well-known private schools in the US and Korea and never learned these skills.

ultrarunner 5y ago
Perhaps that is because those skills are stereotypical or political and not actually all that valuable for success in life. I highly doubt that your wife (or humanity in general) would fail to care for babies were it not for home ec classes. However, some groups may, for better or for worse, have opinions predicting what happens to teen pregnancy rates in the face of such experience.

imtringued 5y ago

This applies to school education in general. We learn a lot but never get to use it so we do the natural human thing, we forget about it.