[Windflier]

If we’re going to teach them how to use a rubber, the least we can do is tell them about doing laundry, balancing a checkbook, budgeting your money, how credit cards and mortgages work, how car loans work, etc.

I remember wondering to myself in high school (in the early 70s) why they weren't teaching us the important everyday life skills that would matter most to us in a few short years.

It made me so crazy, that I elected to take the G.E.D. test and get out on my own early.

[calex59]

If we’re going to teach them how to use a rubber, the least we can do is tell them about doing laundry, balancing a checkbook, budgeting your money, how credit cards and mortgages work, how car loans work, etc.

I remember wondering to myself in high school (in the early 70s) why they weren't teaching us the important everyday life skills that would matter most to us in a few short years.

When I was a Senior(1959)our civics teacher(he eventually became principal)spent the last month teaching us how to order in restaurants and many other life skills. He has us studying for finals also but that month taught me many things I didn't know about the world.