The nine most terrifying words in the English language: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Take note, because that's exactly what you just proposed.
If American parents need government to do what they are unwilling to do, i.e., educate their own children in "basic life skills," as is their parental responsibility and their parental right, then we as a society have far more serious foundational problems than young ones who can't write in cursive, balance and reconcile a checking account register, or tie their own shoes.
My general plan for when my son (and any additional kids we may have) get older is to basically show him things every weekend.
One weekend, I might show him the mortgage papers and payments we’re making. The next, maybe he will watch me fix the sink or something.
In my generation, parents seemed to shy away from anything that might indicate to the kids how much money the parents make, including balancing a checkbook, and while there are good reasons for that, I think it’s MORE important to show them how to budget and balance a checkbook even if it allows them to have some idea of your income.
” If American parents need government to do what they are unwilling to do, i.e., educate their own children in “basic life skills,” as is their parental responsibility and their parental right, then we as a society have far more serious foundational problems than young ones who can’t write in cursive, balance and reconcile a checking account register, or tie their own shoes. “
The government only turns kids into helpless liberal pansies.
Public schools struggle to teach simple reading and math. And history class might as well be renamed “speculative fiction class”.
If you want your kid to know how to do laundry you better teach em yourself. Otherwise they will ruin all their clothes. School teach em about mortgages? If you thought THIS housing crisis was bad.....