Posted on 07/25/2021 1:51:37 PM PDT by rktman
Remember when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was amazed by a garbage disposal and the idea that you can grow food in the ground? Many of us tittered and guffawed. As it turns out, she is not an anomaly. According to a poll from SWNS digital, 81% of college grads wish they had been taught more life skills before graduation. Instead, they learned the importance of pronouns and social justice activism. It seems that many students leave a college clueless about budgeting and what to do when you can’t afford DoorDash.
The learned helplessness churned out from our universities seems intentional. College grads who leave school without life skills are more willing to rely on the government. According to the poll:
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You’re not going to learn a lot of “life skills” by sitting around on your ass all day and night playing video games.
Raised them right.
Not that common these days.
While in High School, I took wood shop, metal shop and home economics (mostly cooking class).
The home ec class was a blast since I was the only guy in the class. I already knew how to cook, so I was there to meet girls. It worked.
Colleges turning out ignorant dependent graduates who are unable to think for themselves. This exactly what the colleges wanted to do.
My mom was scared to come into my dorm. It was a ROTC all male dorm. Animal House comes to mind.
Texas A&M 1980
Life skills are the job of the parents.
Life skills involve values. I don’t want the public schools imparting their nasty values on kids.
My dad and my grandparents taught me and my sister life skills. The grandparents were very concerned that they didn’t teach us enough.
Why?
It’s called moving off campus and doing for yourself. Biggest issue these young kids have is theres a service for darned near everything. Most of which is normally being paid for by their parents.
Get out on their own and those luxuries sometimes disappear quickly when it’s time to pay the bills
“Participation Trophies” come home to roost.
Wasn’t that called Home Economics and Shop class a long time ago?
Yet another thing destroyed by the Left.
And also liability and lawyers.
Ha! Some folks are greatly intimidated by all those uniforms and badges for who knows what!
In the Navy, we were made to put a bedsheet on using what they called ‘Hospital Corners’ meaning the sheet was heald down on all four sides by a 45* fold. Some could bounce a penny on the mattress once done.
Stick shifts have to be special,ordered,in the US these days. They’re everywhere in the rest of the world.
If one takes a class to be a security contractor for some government agencies, one of the classes is how to drive a stick shift.
Learned quite a few life skills in my first few years in the Army. 2nd Lts get hit with a lot when they arrive at their first assignment. I was fortunate, though, my platoon sergeants were all great.
What?
You mean limitless self esteem and conviction that the world revolves around you are not enough?
My Dad was an exec and always had secretaries to take his dictation and write his documents. He never touched a computer or keyboard in his life. Yet he made me take typing in 11th grade summer school (around 1968). Like you, I was the only boy in the class!
He always said that “typing is going to be an important skill to master.” It’s amazing he could see that coming so many years before the advent of PCs. Only a couple years later, I was typing out IBM 360 punch cards in college and did that skill ever come in handy! To this day, I can still touch-type. Thanks, Dad!
We had wood shop in 7th grade and metal shop in 8th grade. I still remember those classes very fondly and have one project we made in that wood shop class.
I miss a stick shift. I used to go out of my way to get one. It used to be a stick shift was “the beast” of the lot. I could get a good deal on one because no one wanted it. I didn’t even care about the color. Now you have to order it special like you say and pay “extra” - way way “extra”!
That might be true. But some kids may not have a home situation that leads to that. Say the kids being raised by a single mother who doesn’t know tire iron from a pb&j.
Be nice if the kid had the opportunity to learn how to change a tire or replace the oil from someone.
Never know, these classes could be the spark that helps these kids make a decision, with the country so lacking on folks in the trades.
Indeed !
Public schools did away with Home Economics in the late seventies. Part of the dumbing down of America.
Creating an adult who has the intellectual maturity and knowledge of a fourteen year old and the emotional maturity of an 8 year old benefits freedom restricting, criminal, tyrannical governments.
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