Quote: (01-11-2018 08:40 PM)Super_Fire Wrote:
Quote: (01-11-2018 07:43 PM)911 Wrote:
Quote: (01-10-2018 08:24 PM)TigOlBitties Wrote:
This kind of thing should be taught in high schools, as well as handyman, trade, programming skills, etc. Instead, we have teachers, parents and guidance counselors pushing worthless classes/degrees and not preparing kids for the real world.
That's not the right approach IMO. You don't teach kids about investing in high school, you teach them the basics, and do it well. Maths, algebra, geometry. If you understand geometric series, you can understand compound interest.
Common core is about gutting these basics out of the education system for a range of useless, ideologically-driven "practical" babble.
It doesn't have to be one or the other.
They used to teach (women) how to manage the family's finances in home economics class in school, among other things such as cooking, cleaning, sewing, etc. The only reason they don't anymore is because of the purple-haired brigade.
Bring back home ec, include a finance class, and don't cut basics such as math.
It wasn't SJW ideology that drove home economics courses out of schools. That was the work of the processed food companies. The book Salt Sugar Fat sets out the step by step history of how they did it, and it is not pretty reading. The processed food industry relentlessly warred on home economics courses in schools: they'd hire home ec teachers to push their product, they'd go after school boards, anything to destroy people doing scratch cooking, i.e. cooking something that didn't come out of a box.
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