Is it normal schools doesn't teach any useful skills?

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Anyone who went to school might agree most of it is just bull spit. They will teach you where a ball will land if you shot put it across the yard but things like accounting, paying bills, how to make a budget, how to resolve conflict without violence, Proper social skills, how to do an interview, how to prepare for an interview, how to vote, how to fill out taxes, how to buy a house, not even helping you get a job(In fact most schools discourage it) yet they somehow believe at the end of the year we are prepared for the real world. Than half the children don't pass anyways. Half the school is stupid when they graduate yet somehow schools believe they did a good job. Does school really prepare children? If this type of shit is mandatory why do they not teach anything crucial like the above listed skills?

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  • TheAnarkyOfLife
    9 years ago | pl

    This generations screwed unless we change our schools.

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  • KatieLiz
    9 years ago | pl

    I agree. However, I also agree that this isn't all the school's fault. Parents think that they send their kids off the school and that's all the education they need, but kids need to be taught at home too. Academia is the responsibility of the school, but parents shouldn't shun responsibility when it comes to teaching life skills.
    This isn't to say that the school having a hand in this is wrong. Not at all. Here in the UK at the moment we have a lot of dialogue going on about was to envoy pirate financial life skills into the curriculum, which looks promising.

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  • GreyWulfen
    9 years ago | pl

    We actually learned how to prepare for an interview; aside from that, yeah, there should be subjects for topics like this.

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  • linchpin
    9 years ago | pl

    I agree with you 100%.

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  • thegypsysailor
    9 years ago | pl

    These days I think the most one can hope to get from their high school education is how to learn. Basic reading, writing and arithmetic are being usurped by computers and calculators and any other shortcut everyone involved (students, teachers, administrators and financial suppliers) can find.
    After the protests of the 60's the government realized that they had over educated the populous and could not control them. Education budgets were slashed and the result is what you have today; the fucking tea party and friends, for one.

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  • MissesAnonymous23
    9 years ago | pl

    "Is it normal schools doesn't teach any useful skills?"

    Don't*

    If you're going to write a post about education, at least proof read.

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    • Energy
      9 years ago | pl

      Shows what a good job our schools do in educating people ;)

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    9 years ago | pl

    A lot of this stuff sounds like shit that parents are responsible for teaching their children. Children go to school to learn about academic subjects, cut and dried.

    Many state and local governments are starting to realize that parents don't want to do their jobs anymore so they have followed suit and started teaching classes that cover much of this subject material. Even many community colleges and local schools offer classes teaching these kind of skills if anyone wants to get off their asses long enough to go find them and take them.

    I am sure that if you give it a bit of time, more schools will follow suit with the realization that parents now expect public schools to not only teach their children the academic but to also do their job for them and teach them the real life skills that they should be learning at home.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      9 years ago | pl

      Even if you go by that they are really not doing so well in that either. Did you know there is 18 year olds who still can not read? Clearly the schools are messing up somewhere.

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      • NeuroNeptunian
        9 years ago | pl

        Your grammar is killing me.

        Yes, there ARE 18 year olds who still can't read, maybe they should try to reach out and get the help they need. Schools can't be held responsible for everything.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          9 years ago | pl

          If they can not even teach a child to read why send them? You just stated that is what school is meant for. If a school is so horrible the children can not read don't you think they are doing something wrong? Not saying all students need to be passing with 5.0 GPA but everyone should be able to at least read.

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          • NeuroNeptunian
            9 years ago | pl

            The school is not the only factor in a child's education. If the child is unmotivated and the parents are complacent or worse, the parents are complacent and the child has a learning disability (begging the need for reinforcement at home), there is little the school can do.

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  • EccentricWeird
    9 years ago | pl

    You're going to the wrong schools. Don't blame your ignorance on society.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago | pl

    The OP tells the truth, pure and simple.

    Over time I couldn't help but get the suspicion that the education system isn't about education at all.

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  • KatieLiz
    9 years ago | pl

    *incorporate, not 'envoy pirate', haha!

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  • Erik963
    9 years ago | pl

    I agree.

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  • rabbitandpig
    9 years ago | pl

    most things you list may be useful a lot,
    saying about the subject ,have you meet chiese teacher? have you count the legs and head of rabbits and ducks.... ....

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  • myboyfriendsbitch
    9 years ago | pl

    Yeah, it's true. But you can still get a lot out of school if you really want to learn. One basic math class in community college taught me most of those things. Also, AP courses taught more valuable skills than regular courses. Unfortunately you either have to go to college or watch a bunch of documentaries if you really want to learn.

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