Posted on 12/15/2018 10:38:11 AM PST by bgill
Seniors in the class of 2019, however, received one-on-ones with people from the community - teaching things like dorm-room cooking, changing a tire, credit cards and financing. It was an event Christy Hardin, director of the BCHS Family Resource & Youth Services Center, organized for the students. “I think that the idea occurred to me originally, I saw a Facebook post that parents passed around saying they needed a class in high school on taxes, and cooking,” Hardin said. “Our kids can get that, but they have to choose it. And (Wednesday) was a day they could pick and choose pieces they didn’t feel like they had gotten so far."
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I learned to balance a checkbook in 3rd grade math class. If these seniors can't balance a checkbook, they certainly don't need a credit card. First thing we learned when we got a drivers license was to change a tire. Dorm cooking, oh my, poor things are going to starve if they can't figure out how to push a picture button on the microwave. Hope there was a class on using a washer and dryer. Geez, these pampered snowflakes should have been taught most of these lifeskills by age 10 by their parents.
So much for the days of homemaking, ag and shop in HS. I was cooking, cleaning and sewing my entire wardrobe by junior high so refused to take homemaking in HS and became the first girl in ag class. The ag teachers thought it wasn't ladylike to weld the class trailer project but it was ok for me to teach the boys to weld. Yeah, upside down thinking but whatever.
I made sure our kids had lifeskills at a very early age. Learned how to shop for produce from the kiddie seat in the grocery cart. Learned unit pricing there, too. Which is the biggest number on the shelf price label?
My kids learned all that stuff while they were quite young while we were homeschooling them.
We taught them ourselves as parents are supposed to do.
A public school teaching real life living? Whodathunkit?
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Remedial Parenting.
The school really shouldn’t have to teach any of this stuff, but “in loco parentis”...
now replaced by snowflake 101 through 901
and
sexual promiscuity 101 through 901.
Kinda refreshing after years of that other “adult” class - Planned Parenthood teaching sex.
Due to the stress from this one day class, It will be followed by a three week course about building and maintaining safe places
Cook..change tire..pay bills.
Ramin noodles..bicycle..Amazon.com?
Home Ec was a great way to meet girls.
{{{Sigh}}}
It’s this a parents job? Where have I been all these years?
40 years ago, my boys were taught these skills at home. I saw it was evident w/ the crop of girls their age, that they were going to need to know this stuff. Consequently, they were good *catches*.
Add to these skills are marksmanship, cleaning a gun and butchering your harvested animal. All well and good to know the rules of basketball and soccer, but I don’t know how sports like those will make your hacking life any better.
I was a math idiot so my grade 9 bone head math class was all about life skills like balancing a check book, and simple mortgage/loans.
Then in grade 11, a bunch of us football jocks talked the hot home ec teacher into a boys home ec class. I learned to cook, do laundry and how to value shop for groceries. As good as the teach looked, she was a tougher task master! It wasn’t a throw away “A”.
The two best and most used classes of my public school days!
I was in a store the other day and spied a BOGO (buy one, get one free) special on 8 ounce bags of grated cheese, the only time I make such purchases for my salads & omelettes. It’s a better deal than buying the bricks, though I try to avoid the additives.
Juxtaposed against days-past, today’s labels clearly show the price/unit not only for the regular price, but the sale price as well (depending on the chain, of course).
Whereas the larger bags of cheese afforded the best unit price, BOGO was a superior unit price.
Still, as I was scrutinizing the products and making a choice, a woman next to me walked up, grabbed one of the 16 ounce bags and I chose to speak up and point out the BOGO special.
She looked at the label on the BOGO and, still walked away with the double-the-unit-price 16 ounce bag for what she perceived was a better deal.
Knowledge & hands-on experience mean nothing without common sense, especially when it’s staring you right in the face in literal black & white.
Schools cannot teach common sense. Even though you don’t cite it, you had FAR more influence on your kids than the school could ever have had on “adulting”...
60 and divorced a couple of years, great to be cooking again, easiest date ever, ask a 40 something over for dinner, they have no idea how to use an oven and most not even the stove top, microwavable or eat out.
Us too. My kids were making their own breakfast and lunch at around age 4.
The small college one kid went to had apartments not dorms. Each student was responsible for all his own meals. No big shake for my kid. Same for laundry.
All know basic car maintenance etc. It’s called life.
We had to dumb everything down..and destroy organizations like the Boy Scout.
It was for the good of the body.
Landry is gentle.
Are you not of the body?
LandrU does not appreciate autocorrect changing his name.
For the good of the body..autocorrect must be absorbed.
Good way to find out which girls could really “cook”.
Maybe they can find a few minutes to explain nouns and verbs.
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