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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How many University of ____ students does it take to change a flat tire?
Two. One to call dad and one to go get the beer.
Balancing a checkbook is rayciss! (/SJW)
I recently heard that the sales of tuna have gone way down because the young people don’t want to have to open cans.
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graduated in 67 and in my senior year they opened Home EC to boys and they expanded to included some of the things talked about here.
I’ve thought for a long time that kids (including myself at that time) should be taught practical life skills in HS rather than some of the mandatory BS that doesn’t put food on the table
Nazi racist facists!!!
I work with a 31 year old who has three bachelors degrees and I had to show him how to turn on the headlights on a Ford Explorer (“why isn’t that automatic??”), how to jump start a company car with a dead battery (“isn’t there someone we can call to do this?”) and who freaked out at having to climb a six-foot stepladder (“aren’t there OSHA safety handles for this?”)
To his defense, he’s picking these life tasks up after being shown that a couple of times, but it taxes all of my logic to understand how a 31 year old can NOT know these things.
Unless you ride a big wheel.
Dorm cooking? Order food with a phone app.
Change a tire? Call your daddy’s roadside service number.
Balance a checkbook? No need... Just check the online app for your bank statement that your Daddy puts money into each month.
My college prep track high school offered Auto shop which I took, home ec and ag. I didn’t take those.
At times I regret not doing the other two. Ag offered a lot in terms of welding and metal. However Ag and auto conflicted.
I cannot STAND that term, “Adulting”!
Interesting since I just watched To Sir, With Love on Turner last night where the great Sidney Poitier throws out the school books and turns to teaching the kids about life and cooking.
They don’t know how to work a can opener. Seriously.
I run into 20 -50 somethings that struggle with the things you mention.
Some of these people have good paying jobs and high end sheepskins. I’m amazed how they got where they are.
I’m a nobody guy that took a few years of auto mechanics in high school, grew up on a farm, and had to be self sufficient.
Who told you about my big wheel?
A 50 year old Physics graduaye, in family by marriage,can barely fix himself a peanut butter sandwich.
A 50 year old Physics graduATE..that is.
Who knows? The WaPO also had an article on this trend.
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I understand you recently added flames onto it. Too bad you used watercolors.
:)
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