Classes that should be taught in high school. Rating Options

[manny-the-dino]

I was going to put this in School but since it turned into a debate in my English class, I figured it would turn into one here as well.


My professor brought this up yesterday. He sent us some articles to read. One here & the other here. Those of you in high school, what do you think they should be teaching you? And those of you who are out of high school, what do you wish they taught you? A lot of people said finance for sure. And anything credit related as well. Social skills also came up. With texting & all that, some kids don't even know how to form complete sentences anymore. Some guy in my class said that he thinks our parents should be teach us these things instead of schools. I dk. I was going to say some other things but they slipped my mind :(



So, DEBATE!


Oh wait, here's a list of possibilites:

• Credit
• Finance
• Environmental
• Compositing
• Relationships
• Parenting
• CPR
• Meditation
• Social class
• How to read financial terminology / contracts

[hi-C]

A basic level finance or economics class, definitely. So kids'll learn that money doesn't grow on trees. I'd also like to see PE mandatory all four years and perhaps a nutrition class (like for real, none of that stupid stuff you do in Health class). It'll help with adolescent obesity. When I was in school, we definitely didn't take finance and PE was only mandatory for one year. And every student should be required to take an arts class, especially music.

[hypnotique]

i think we need to focus on offering more vocational training programs for high schoolers like the way my school did it.In junior and senior year your had the option of going to this school called TCD and you did stuff that perked your interest (auto body technician,firefighter/paramedic sciences,culinary arts,child development, computer networking,graphic design shit like that.

Because lets face it not every kid is going to go off to some expensive ass university to get a degree. and not every kid is book savvy they are the hands on type and these programs really help it blossom out.