Posted on 03/24/2019 5:29:08 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Students in Kentucky took a break from calculus and dodgeball to learn so real-life skills to help them 'adult' when they leave school.
Bullitt Central High School in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, have been educating its seniors in practical skills to help them become better prepared for 'real life.'
The so called 'adulting day,' held in the school, offered students workshops covering a whole host of adult topics from cooking to budgeting.
Graduating seniors were able to choose which workshops they wanted to attend and could pick three out of 11.
Students interested in basic car maintenance skills were shown how to change a tire.
Others learnt how to whip up meals in their dorm room, presumably to help them save money and so they wouldn't have to eat out all the time.
Financial topics were also discussed from savings accounts to checking accounts, and how to responsibly use credit cards and build a credit score.
The Shepherdsville Police Department also came by and students were shown how to behave if they were pulled over by a police officer.
Members of the Army discussed potential careers in the military and the realities of army life while students took part in fitness drills.
On its Facebook page, Bullitt Central High School said it wanted its students 'to gain more knowledge and skills pertaining to their lives once they leave.'
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That got started with the Foxfire magazine at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School up in North Georgia near Clayton, back in the late 1960s. I did some work at the school in the late 1980s/early 1990s. By that time it had at least partially become a place you sent your druggie high school kid to get him away from bad influences in suburban Atlanta. An alternative to military school, if you will.
Now if these schools also taught students to read, do simple math, write in cursive and have a basic understanding of our Constitution and history, we would be back to how education was before the liberal loons took over the schools.
Interesting! :)
Berea college in Kentucky used to be involved with the Appalachian / backwoods lore thing too, whether with Foxfire or on their own, I can’t recall. But if you’re into that stuff, look into that.
We used to have that type stuff in Junior High School all year long, now students are so dense they moved it to High School.
Wow! “Parents” parenting. How unique!
A few years ago, I helped a younger guy change his tire, went through the steps, did it with him.
He was just about to graduate - from Villanova with a masters in finance. I'm glad that I was able to assist and he was grateful for the instruction.
However-—at auto mechanic’s hourly rates at $100 & UP an hour, you probably saved lots of money.
Mom’s rock!
My kid’s college adviser suggested she take a 1 credit class Finance for non finance majors. Learned about mortgages, ira, 401k, life ins, budgeting etc. All the stuff I wanted to teach her but she couldn’t be bothered. She did well. I was grateful. More practical than a pottery class.
It would be useful if they taught the kids how to dress.
Sorry, but no. The thing would be a stale and moldy mess by the time I could mail it to you.
Ok just cook me up some bacon and bean then polish my boots then we will call it day.
Perfect! Unsnowflake them..
I took typing and auto mechanics. Typing was myself and 23 girls. The teacher had to spend a lot of time reminding the girls they couldn’t talk to me the whole hour. Good times.
Back to typing, here's how it really helped me. After two years of it, I came out of high school typing nearly 80 wpm with little or no errors. When I got to the Marines, they were astounded at that ability and I became the unofficial "secretary" of my unit. As you pointed out, it kept me mostly in a/c comfort while my fellow Marines were out doing something usually undesirable.
In the corporate world, I was starting to move through the managerial ranks in a world where my male counterparts still had female secretaries to do all the paperwork and typing for them. They thought it was cool at the time but rendered them pretty much helpless with even the most mundane clerical tasks. As corporate America during the 1990s began downsizing personal secretaries in favor of shared executive assistants, more of that routine secretarial work fell to the managers, who were now expected to type out their own performance reviews, write (or at least draft) their own business letters and other correspondence. Also, email exploded on the scene and many managers were exposed as having rather poor writing skills. This allowed me to move right to the fast track as I was able to effortlessly handle all my incoming correspondence while others were hunt and pecking around the keyboard, trying to put coherent sentences together.
72B and 72F....communication center specialist
Worked in a relay station and never touched a typewriter......LOL!
Starting pumping gas when I was 12. Moved up to changing tires, brakes, shocks front ends, before I left high school. Whole my father taught me the basics real life fine tuned it. Learned to cook in the Boy Scouts and worked in restaurants for a while, again, started at the bottom and worked my way up. Actually became a chef for a time, hated the hours. Went on to work at the airport starting airplanes after high school.
Boy scouts was always a good place to learn to cook. Thats where my husband learned. He loved scouts and regrets he didn’t say long enough to obtain Eagle.
All true. I was so happy when around 1987 they finally gave me a desk top computer to do my own paperwork. The evp had a secretary. But the rest of us vp and avp had to deal with a typing pool. Getting corrections was a nightmare and long wait time.
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