they go crazy to have kids go to school but where is the life skills courses they should be teaching? when i got out of high school i knew literature, music, needle point, history and mythology. which did jack when it came time to fill out my first job application, not to mention tax time the next year, banking and checkbook management. why can’t schools teach useful skills like tax prep, cash register operation, basic first aid, drivers ed (remember that? i just learned they took it out), job search and application prep basic computer repair (not build from the ground up, just replace a hard drive or do a clean os install)? why is it that the highest form of life on the planet doesn’t put as much effort into it’s young as a duck? most animals teach basic survival skills, why not humans?
I know it, MARS. i was lucky enough to have a social studies teacher who was an old school rebel and believed school was about more than daycare for teens. still there were kids in some of my classes/grades who could barely read and write, and i mean high school here.
Hey tarry, I don’t blame all teachers, only the bad ones.
first, I have had teachers who every day came into the room, told everyone to read a few chapters from their text book and quickly got lost in reading the news paper, a novel or left the class for the next twenty minutes.
last year at my little sisters high school there where gangs fighting in the halls, ambushing each other and threatening anyone caught alone. one young man was beaten half to death, going to the hospital with a broken jaw, three broken ribs and a punctured lung.
the school didn’t notify any parents about anything and as soon as parents heard from their kids and called the principle they were told that there was nothing going on at the school, just a little fight between two students. nothing was mentioned about the other students who were punched in the head during an assemble where they had to walk between the the standing classes, or the girl who was chased thru the building and barely made it to a class room
I’m not saying school should teach everything to kids, however if they have time to teach needle point (7th gr’ art), poetry and football, they could teach some basic real world skills. some parents don’t know enuff on some subjects to teach it to their kids. some don’t have the time because they are working 2 jobs just to make ends meet and many kids are in single parent homes where their just isn’t time to teach everything a young person needs to learn, and a lot of time is wasted every day on needlessly traveling across town to go to school. for example half my sister’s home room class lives in the same neighborhood as we do and every day they have to cross the entire city to go to a school that is 7.3 miles away by mapquest. while 4 blocks away is the high school i went to, when we lived 4 miles away from it. she has to leave for school over an hour before school starts and this year they announced there would be no more school buses for seniors, so it’s public transportation time
Alli Kat, that’s it exactly. America needs a revolution. we need to take the fat cat bureaucrats and dump THEM in Boston harbor.
our forefathers gave us the right to bare arms so we could defend our selves from all enemies, foreign and domestic. unfortunately our biggest enemy has WAY bigger guns… and tanks… and nuclear weapons.
frankly i do not even believe in the voting process any more. sure we all line up and state our preferences then the people who count the votes decide who wins.
can you say Bush whacked. just because they say it’s a fair vote doesn’t make it so.
