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2021 and We’re Letting Kids Graduate Clueless
A newer more modern version of Home Economics is needed
And that goes for adults as well.
We have kids graduating from high school taking on tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt that don’t know how to balance a checkbook or do their own taxes.
Some of those kids grow up to be adults that still don’t know how to do the most basic of life skills and then couple that will the inability to put a cohesive sentence together, orally or in writing, and you’ve got a walking cluster fuck on your hands.
This is the situation that too many Americans find themselves in.
They bought into the “American dream” that if they just tried hard enough, wanted it badly enough, and worked a few decades for it (whatever the “it” is) they would have it.
You were lied to.
Baqsam Behbehani published a piece recently, One Important Subject School Doesn’t Teach You, We need life skills more than ancient history.
He nailed it right out of the gate with the title and subtitle. Save ancient history for college. In junior and senior high, kids need a lot of basic life skills. And let’s, once and for all, erase the gender biases here…
