literacy IS a life skill.
Math is too.
They had lousy parents, that’s all.
But, but, they’ve had diversity training and are learning NewSpeak all the time. There are even jobs in the Ministry of Truth waiting for them.
That's what dads are supposed to teach you. Leave the trig, chemistry, etc., to the academicians. Can you imagine your dad teaching you calculus? Very few dads could. And believe it or not you need the academic stuff for lots of jobs. Otherwise, prepare to dig ditches.
My daughter cut my hair last weekend, did a pretty good job. Learned how from a YouTube video.
I think that’s one of the things that’s fueling the proliferation of auto parts stores, that seem to be everywhere now.
Fake history, politics and propaganda taught by public school government bureaucrats is making it even worse.
I did an exercise with my kids a few years ago. Out of the 6-7 hours per day spent in high school, I asked them to calculate how much time they actually spent “learning.”
Subtract everything else from time between classes, gym and health class, to lunch, school announcements, teachers trying to keep order, stupid questions from unprepared classmates, teachers randomly talking or complaining about their spouses, etc…
It usually came to about 2 hours per day.
That’s what parents are for.
They need to be taught to not vote for Socialists/Marxists.
THAT’s a valuable Life Skill.
Back in the day, mom was supposed to teach you how to cook, and dad was supposed to teach you household repair and automotive skills.
Read, write, speak basic English, and learn basic math. You will do well. And don’t rely on spelchek!
I wonder how old these 1,000 parents are? If under 35, much of the “academic” stuff they learned in school probably WAS useless.
Big Brother doesn’t want you to know how to take care of yourself. They want you to have to rely on the government for your life.
That’s what parents are for.
Family is supposed to teach you those things (preferably parents, but not always possible). Changing a tire, sewing a button, cooking spaghetti, peeling potatoes, balancing a checkbook, etc. are all basic things one should learn from family before adulthood. Traditionally, women would learn more advanced housekeeping skills in home economics and guys would do shop class or something like that, but basic life skills were covered in the home. But tradition is a microaggression or something.
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One of the most important lesson/skill that I was taught was how to hunt, kill, field dress, skin, butcher and cook a deer.
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I remember a time when parents taught the life skills.
When I was 16 years old (1968) I had my own car, an after school job, a bank account and a girlfriend. No brag, just fact.
Life skills are taught by parents who model it....oops forgot what the left did to our families. It is sad we expect our schools to teach us how to address an envelope and balance a checkbook
Yesterday’s kids, immersed in pubic schools, video screens, sugared foods and fatherlessness, are now grown up and wishing they’d learned life skills.
They’re obviously learning now, unavoidably, how much they don’t know — a real eye opener. Probably painful.
Tail-end Boomers are going to be retiring before long, and a whole lot of their jobs will be difficult to fill with today’s younger ones; critical infrastructure jobs in many cases. We’re quietly working away (many with great job security even in our 60’s), and have a lot of unsung skills (developed over many decades from life, mistakes, OJT and sel-learning).
Interesting times are coming, in many ways...
There is no way to have a class about how to be ambitious enough to get off your ass and figure things out for yourself.