Many retired individuals within the community would love to volunteer our time to teach these skills. This would allow fast tracking learning with little cost.
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I have to agree Amie, as someone who taught at colleges & universities for over a decade while running full time businesses, I see so many of that age having no clue has to how to even boil water. We raised 4 kids, and now are making sure that our 13 grandkids learn these basics. Often however this not only isnāt happening in the home, with the prevalence of single parenthood, just providing for the family is often two full time jobs leaving very little additional time.
The greatest help for my two oldest was during their senior year. As part of a work study program they had early release that allowed them to go work a couple of hours per day at the local Royal Credit Union.
They learned not to go into debt, and how to manage finances responsibly. Each of them have also put far more than I ever have into retirement funds. Because these skills were taught to my four, each of them have their own homes, are raising successful kids, and continue to know communication skills that allow them to work through any disagreementsā¦none have ever come close to divorce. Three of the four are able to provide for their families on a single income.
These are some of the long term benefits of teaching such skills in our school systems!
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I feel you! But then I think that I donāt want to abandon children in places like California to their fates. Can families there hope for any advocate if the federal government canāt be for them somehow?
I donāt know. Competent, confident, independent adults, properly educated and taught to be fruitful could save our nation without even meaning to. If we can get there within our current system, Iām happy to work with it.
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Yesš You give me hope and are such a good example. Thank you! Please keep telling your story. Itās such a heavy world our children will inherit. Their strength and ability to navigate the world could be our best hopeš
I love this so much ! Iāve always had a secret dream to run an orphanage staffed solely by babushkas who teach us all old songs and how to make bread 
From our mouths to Godās ears 
Itās worth noting that many Californians have realized where the Marxists are taking their state and theyāve voted with their feet, relocating to states that are less tyrannical. Unconstitutional federal tyranny that subsidized life in Cali and made it sufficiently tolerable would ultimately enable the Marxists to continue putting their evil choices on the federal credit card for all to pay.
One of those options strikes me as being much better than the other. YMMV
Iām all for hearing their ideas, but they have no real life experience, being dependent on their elders! They donāt live on their own, pay all the bills, work, etc so we donāt want them thinking they can run the show.
They donāt have something like where Iām from or where I live now. The best they had was the local program through the community college to get out of high school with an AA degree. Thatās useful and I think itās great, but there need to be more options for kids who are interested in blue collar options. Maybe make it possible to attend trade school part time (like beauty schools will do with some high school programs)
Does this speak to what you are talking about? Transforming Public Education into Community Learning Webs
Please teach a (small) section on home and auto insurance! This is something that almost every American will deal with in their life.
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Be a good parent and teach your children life skills. Stop looking to other people to raise your children. Get involved, get off the phone, and stop being selfish. Iāve done it on my own. My child has learned h ow to cook, open a bank account, shop at the store, read receipts, how to save/budget, laundry etc. Doesnāt take much. Stop being lazy.
Well, looks like I get to teach you a lesson in making assumptions in addition to all the other lessons I taught today. As it happens, this proposal is based on my personal experience as a public schoolstudent.
I homeschool my children and based on my experience, teach them all these things daily. I also teach them manners and how to speak to people so that they will be well thought of enough to even be heard by them. Some have proposed teaching that in public schools and it would seem they were correct 
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I partially agree with you but, some parents today are not equipped to teach their children normal parenting much less any other skills. I believe we need some reorganizing in public schools. There has been several great ideas. We need to use homeschool models, and other countryās models. We have violence in schools, bullies, and we have children that have so many different levels of learning. Schools have turned into test taking only.
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Things to like taxes, investing (any market), more career fairs, make PE great again 
, survival skills,.
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I feel nutrition should also be involved. Growing up I just ate what my parents made me and now I make the same stuff. I donāt know or understand anything about nutrition. Another important life skill would be how to form good habits and break bad ones.
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I am 100% with you. I have began a whole curriculum on this content. Students making impacts like planting school gardens, trees, building trades and providing services like oil changes, small engine home economics and so forth.
What could life be like if we specialized high school a bit more.
Build houses for vets/homeless/habitat for humanity. Students help with this learning this process and labor costs.
Students provide small engine repairs for seniors, or whoever for lawn mowers, chain saws, and weed eaters.
Students repair car repairs, body work, and all things mechanical to vehicles. They can have a specialization or understand this trade.
Students learn coding, programming, stem technology, introduction to these things,
Students all learn basic survival skills and home economics!
Some students do benefit from college readiness some do not! It becomes pointless and a waist of time! This is where we need to divert and inform properly our children of true options! I was always told college was all my opts. I do not regret it. I love being a teacher. I
Needed finance skills, my husband needed them too! We suffered a lot due to this lack of knowledge and I had great parents. We were just poor, we didnāt know the opts we had.
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Higher order thinking skills, wisdom, common sense, and a deep connection to the society is gained, not by treating kids like robots, but rather by giving kids better connections to adults while growing.
If we do not give kids plenty of connections that are healthy to both younger and older members of society, more predators are created. This is not opinion. Healthy connections while growing foster empathy and better judgment. This is fact that is well studied. It is past time we use the developmental knowledge we have to raise wise kids, rather than forcing our youth through a process known to cause numerous behavioral problems. I have a masters in education. I do know what I am thinking about
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In addition to mental health resources I would add a mental health class to teach healthy communication, coping skills, calming skills, goal development, trauma integration, healthy family systems, and so much more.
Also teaching cursive in elementary. I worked the election and we had a few younger voters who said they could only sign their first name because they didnāt learn their last name. I guess they figure everything is digital but this seems pretty basic as a life skill to be able to sign your name.
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Yes! Thatās true for me, too. Whole foods cooked at home are so much more affordable, never mind healthier, than restaurant and convenience meals. Sitting at a table with cutlery and a napkin and a decent meal and people you like talking to is so wholesome and restoring and so few enjoy it at home! One good thing about inflation is that McDonaldās is now too expensive for anyone to claim cheeseburgers are all poor people can afford 
I agree, heavy push on real food and the art of just having a meal together 
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