You know what?
I think that either High Schools or Colleges need to add some mandatory classes for just basics of life, and how to survive in the world. Such as teaching people how to do taxes, and maybe teach all the importance of taxes, at least how it works and what one needs to do to get them done (i.e. going to an accountant if thats the best way). I mean my mom does mine/gets mine done but I think it should be something that I need to learn how to do and something that I will be doing once I'm out of college. I'm sure most people know how to do their own, they figure it out, or their parents teach them. I mean (some) parents also teach their kids about sex, and schools are starting to teach kids about that so kids are better aware (although I'm sure that's a better thing to do with safety and growing up and what not). I don't see why some kind of real world survivor class wouldn't be a good idea, or a good thing.
Also about how insurance works, buying a house, getting jobs (well we did get that in school, for the most part) Anyways just basic stuff that parents usually teach you or you figure out. I just really think it would be beneficial to people if there was some kind of structure to learning this stuff, and if you get a really smart cookie of a teacher s/he can teach the kids some tricks and loopholes. I've thought about this for a while, especially the taxes thing, (I've always thought how does the gov't expect me to know what I should do with this W2, although their could be some directions with it, I haven't gotten that far myself). I know there are some other things I had in mind for this type of class but I can't think of it now.
It should be a high school class (Maybe college if high school is just too full) called "Living in the Real World"
Oh god I'm bored.
Also about how insurance works, buying a house, getting jobs (well we did get that in school, for the most part) Anyways just basic stuff that parents usually teach you or you figure out. I just really think it would be beneficial to people if there was some kind of structure to learning this stuff, and if you get a really smart cookie of a teacher s/he can teach the kids some tricks and loopholes. I've thought about this for a while, especially the taxes thing, (I've always thought how does the gov't expect me to know what I should do with this W2, although their could be some directions with it, I haven't gotten that far myself). I know there are some other things I had in mind for this type of class but I can't think of it now.
It should be a high school class (Maybe college if high school is just too full) called "Living in the Real World"
Oh god I'm bored.