the NY Times while riding the subway ...
moved to Rochester where I learned how to shovel snow.
Far better instruction than the collectivist doctrine of the normal school day.
Sigh.
Oh, for the days when parents used to do this.
My high school offered auto mechanics, home economics, and ag class.
Home economics was laughed at but sometimes I think I would have benefited from the class.
I took the auto mechanics route. Ag didn’t interest me since I grew up in farming.
A semester or two of basic life skills and functioning in society would help many people. Big Ed of course wouldn’t want that. How dare anyone be self sufficient?
I’ve said forever that high schools need to have personal finance courses as a requirement to graduate. They would be a damn sight more valuable that wasting time learning a foreign language.
“How not to get your @$$ kicked by the cops.”
It’s a sad day in the USA when THIS is news.
The left should he so proud! I’m sure these kids already know how to change their gender; that capitalism is the second worst thing ever to happen on earth, behind global warming...
But they barely know how to add and subtract small numbers.
In my freshman high school year, I was allowed one elective - typing or auto mechanics.
Guess which one I took.
Me at 14: “Typing is for girls! I’ll have a secretary to do all my typing!”
To this day, I wish I’d taken typing. Who’d a thunk 40 years later I would need that skill in everyday life.
Karma’s a bitch.
That should be a requirement for college too, first year mandatory classes on common sense before any classes toward a major.
Home economics and shop covered it all when I was in 7th and 8th grade.
btt
Did they show the Chris Rock film “How Not To Get Yo Ass Kicked By the Po-lice”?
What are wives for then?
Parents abdicating their responsibilities and the schools take over.
What could go wrong with that?????
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We had all that kind of stuff when we were kids anyways.
It was Home Ec for sewing or cooking and shop for boys.
OTOH, that matrix algebra class I took in 11th grade...
Back in the day, wasn’t this called home economics?
Two dads, but neither can install a new valve-cover gasket:
SOOOOO SURPRISED...!!
It’s too bad they can only choose 3 out of 11 though. These all should be combined into 1/2 semester courses at least.
I understand the concept that this should be taught by the parental units, but in today’s world it isn’t happening. Too much time spent with noses in phones and sending selfies, or ordering take-out. (*generalization, I know not all are like this)
Before we got our drivers’ license, my dad taught both my sisters and me how to change a tire, he even tightened the lug nuts as much as he could and then showed us a couple of ways we could loosen them using leverage. Of course, this was in the days before cell phones.