What do you wish you would have been taught in High School?
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Why is this stuff not taught in high school? These are basics that everyone needs to know. These are not specialized skills that only some of us will need. We all need these skills. We all use these skills on a daily basis, yet these specific set of skills are not taught in high school? Why?
Personal experience!
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1. How to sew basic things and make minor clothing repairs
2. How to change a tire, oil, and what to do in roadside emergencies
3. Basic cooking and meal prep skills
4. How to buy or rent a first home, car, etc.
5. Communication and social skills, especially in the business world.
6. Personal finance should be a required course for all seniors or juniors and include things like: budgeting, saving and investing, credit and more.
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Getting you credit score up is so much harder than bringing it down.
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Learning more practical information and having a greater understanding of all different types of people would have made life easier and I would have a greater understanding and appreciation of all people.
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I would have created and would have been expert by this time .
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I also think that a course on managing your time and setting priorities would have been helpful.
Neither of these classes need to be very long, and I don't think they'd need to be hard either. It's just basic things that would benefit almost everyone no matter where they are in life.
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M$In some ways, I would rather have been given (along with other responsible young men and women) the choice to be taught what is relevant to their context (their cultural background), that is, the choice to learn it in high school or not go to high school at all (where I might have chosen the latter).
- traditional medicine (i.e. knowledge of herbs, massage, etc.)
- indigenous language(s) -- read and write (for example, Nahuatl or Mixtec).
Also, survival training (how to start a fire without matches, what to do <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_wtnd.php">when there is no doctor</a>, how to use what is natural and available -- to live without destroying, etc.).
Sometimes there were thing that I didn't necessarily need to be taught to me, but would have really liked that it were taught others:
- Thankstaking vs. <a href="http://www.oyate.org/resources/shortthanks.html">Thanksgiving</a>
- Mexican is not necessarily synonymous with Hispanic or Latino (nor Spanish speaker)
- A person does not have to be from a federally recognized tribe to be Indigenous
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Don't worry about it...I just firgured you punched the keyboard. I like your answers. I didnt think of survival training. They teach some of that stuff in the boy scouts, but its important, I wonder why it isnt standard in high schools. How to start a fire (like you said, without matches), How to set a broken limb and use a splint
Oh no, I didn't have access to edit my response -- so I apologize for all the ugly ampersands and symbol codes -- I thought there was a glitch where my answer would appear on my Mahalo timeline, but not on this page itself (which I submitted, but I got offline before I received a response). @Jeffhoard let me know it was a cache thing, that I should have refreshed -- too late for that now.
Personally, I think learning how to write well is the most important thing that can be learned at school. That and critical thinking.
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I agree that writing skills are very important, but how does geometry make you a more reasonable person. I'm not one who thinks every skill you learn has to have a direct, pragmatic purpose but shouldn't they just teach you how to fill out tax forms.
When you learn geometry, you're training your brain to work in a certain way - to use principles to make deductions and conclusions about an argument. The query can be, "What is the size of the angle x?", and then, by using the basic principles of mathematics, and reason and logic, you can determine the right answer. The beauty is that there is only one right answer, and so you have to use reason to find it out. Once you've developed that skill, you can apply it to other areas - "Is this a solid investment to make?", well using the facts available, and sound logic, I can make a right answer.
Also, it teaches one how to reason abstractly. For instance, once I've found what angle x is, I can find out what other angles are based on the truth that I've found. I can use all that information to come up with new principles, and then use those principles to solve completely unrelated problems. That helps you in life, because you can start to connect ideas that seem to be unrelated. The more you practice is the better you become.
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Do you mean like a computer repairman type job? Thats anothr thing, a lot of people don't need to go to college, they should just be taught a techinal career in high school. Mechanic, repairman, plumber...etc. You could make some good money from careers like that right after high school.
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But of course, when school budgets are cut, the arts are the first thing to go. It's very sad, as a healthy amount of art in a culture denotes a healthy culture.
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People work their whole lives depending on a pension which is based on Stock market investing, that they know nothing about.
You are retired at age seventy-five with a life expectancy near one hundred. The only way left to increase wealth to you is investing. The Stock market has a place in that planning. That is if you learned anything about it in the first seventy-five years.
So, it would have been better if we learned a little bit more about the Stock Market and specifically "Chart reading from those who know," before we were let out of school.
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M$Or how to write a novel not just American Lit Authors. I would have loved to know the basics when it came to writing some substantial.
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Loans are a good point. Right out of high school a lot of people get thrown into the student loan racket.
This question comment has come up a lot as I have set out on my own. Just recently I got a form for city taxes. How can city taxes be more complicated to file than federal and state combined? Not only would have practice filing federal and state taxes been helpful in high school but so would city taxes.
Some other things that would have been helpful, would have been experiences with insurances of all sorts. Nothing is more confusing that insurance and you have to have a variety of of them. Health, Dental, Eye, Car, Renters, Homeowners, Life, how in the world are you supposed to choose wisely when you are completely uneducated?
Credit and loans are a whole other ball game. You do not have a lot of room to experiment when these two things before they start to effect other parts of your life and a lot of us go out into the world having little to no understanding how to approach them.
All of these things could have at the very least been introduced in high school.
I agree with all that. I think theres also another problem. My parents never talked to me about money. They never really explained to me the importance of financing. My high school had an accounting class, but I just slept through it. My parents convinced me it was important to study in algebra though. I don't really know how to balance check book, how credit card interest works, how loans work, but I know how to graph an equation. Does that make sense.