Many do, at least regarding personal finances and homemaking skills.
Many schools lack the funding to offer a lot of those classes though. They tend to be first on the chopping block when classes need to be cut for budget reasons.
And school does give people a place to develop social skills.
Our school never referenced financial education, nor did my children’s. We taught it at home, but a lot of parents don’t know how to teach money management skills because they don’t have them themselves. I really wish it was offered at school.
“Homemaking” used to be a subject of it’s own. I had to take 3 months each of Art, Home Economics, and Wood Shop from 5th to 8th grade. I do think starting in 8th or maybe 9th grade, schools should teach personal finances and budgeting. I got an after-school job at 14 and being taught how to manage the little money I earned would have helped. The other ideas make sense too.
The problem? Funding. My school district is pretty well off but they are struggling to keep bus drivers, janitors, etc due to the pay and conditions. The tax money isn’t always allocated to where it needs to go in order to create some new, innovative pet project for some administrator.
Lots of elementary schools do teach about social skills, interpersonal relationships etc. There’s a whole category of curriculum and instruction called Social-Emotional Learning that is currently being targeted by the federal government because god forbid you help a kindergartner figure out how to navigate a fight with a friend in a healthy way instead of hitting 🙄
well those things usually fall to the parents. but in this day and age where both parents need to work and the baby is taken care of by daycenters, these lessons are usually not passed on very well.
At one point, they did. A living on your own course was offered at my local Votech. I think it was like 15 credits toward high school graduation. Was on of the best courses I’ve taken.
I’m a new teacher and I happen to also have a bachelor’s in psychology. I plan on teaching some skills but why isn’t it? Because being a teacher doesn’t make you a professional at helping teens manage their emotions. My school had a unit for this. Most teachers felt uncomfortable teaching it and struggled to see the significance of how the unit was built. Because of my background, I was able to add to it and teach it in a way that felt natural. And yes also, we are teachers, not parents. This is supposed to largely be the parents job. Additionally some parents would be absolutely pissed off if we taught « the wrong things » like it’s okay for boys to cry or whatever. So yeah I try to stick to English, conflict resolution and other more « society skills » and springle some anxiety management tips here and there. With experience maybe I’ll grow the audacity to help students develop more skills that could potentially help them not get into abusive relationships. I wanna protect them 😢
Depends where you go to school. All my schools taught these subjects ( Personal, social, health and economic education is the school curriculum subject in England that teaches young people, through all key stages, knowledge and skills for life during and after education), and now that I am the headmaster of my own school in Slovakia we have imported the PSHE subject and made it a core element of our curriculum here.
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School does teach social skills simply by placing you with a bunch of peers
A) because schools aren’t parents
B) because schools have a hard enough time already teaching reading, riting, and rithmetic
Many do, at least regarding personal finances and homemaking skills.
Many schools lack the funding to offer a lot of those classes though. They tend to be first on the chopping block when classes need to be cut for budget reasons.
And school does give people a place to develop social skills.
99% of districts implement social emotional learning, which include standards.
They don’t do it because there’s no curriculum
Our school never referenced financial education, nor did my children’s. We taught it at home, but a lot of parents don’t know how to teach money management skills because they don’t have them themselves. I really wish it was offered at school.
If they taught people proper financial management skills, consumer spending would go down which would hurt the economy.
“Homemaking” used to be a subject of it’s own. I had to take 3 months each of Art, Home Economics, and Wood Shop from 5th to 8th grade. I do think starting in 8th or maybe 9th grade, schools should teach personal finances and budgeting. I got an after-school job at 14 and being taught how to manage the little money I earned would have helped. The other ideas make sense too.
The problem? Funding. My school district is pretty well off but they are struggling to keep bus drivers, janitors, etc due to the pay and conditions. The tax money isn’t always allocated to where it needs to go in order to create some new, innovative pet project for some administrator.
Depends where you go for school? I went to public school in BC, Canada and we had accounting, home economics (sewing and cooking), and woodworking.
They do
Lots of elementary schools do teach about social skills, interpersonal relationships etc. There’s a whole category of curriculum and instruction called Social-Emotional Learning that is currently being targeted by the federal government because god forbid you help a kindergartner figure out how to navigate a fight with a friend in a healthy way instead of hitting 🙄
well those things usually fall to the parents. but in this day and age where both parents need to work and the baby is taken care of by daycenters, these lessons are usually not passed on very well.
At one point, they did. A living on your own course was offered at my local Votech. I think it was like 15 credits toward high school graduation. Was on of the best courses I’ve taken.
They need to teach the basics first and then other subjects. Let’s just worry about the basics first
Maybe controversial but I think a lot of these things are for parents to teach – not schools.
I’m a new teacher and I happen to also have a bachelor’s in psychology. I plan on teaching some skills but why isn’t it? Because being a teacher doesn’t make you a professional at helping teens manage their emotions. My school had a unit for this. Most teachers felt uncomfortable teaching it and struggled to see the significance of how the unit was built. Because of my background, I was able to add to it and teach it in a way that felt natural. And yes also, we are teachers, not parents. This is supposed to largely be the parents job. Additionally some parents would be absolutely pissed off if we taught « the wrong things » like it’s okay for boys to cry or whatever. So yeah I try to stick to English, conflict resolution and other more « society skills » and springle some anxiety management tips here and there. With experience maybe I’ll grow the audacity to help students develop more skills that could potentially help them not get into abusive relationships. I wanna protect them 😢
Edit: forgot to say I’m a new teacher.
Depends where you go to school. All my schools taught these subjects ( Personal, social, health and economic education is the school curriculum subject in England that teaches young people, through all key stages, knowledge and skills for life during and after education), and now that I am the headmaster of my own school in Slovakia we have imported the PSHE subject and made it a core element of our curriculum here.
Isn’t that what parents are for?
Basic sex-ed is part of the currículum.
Math is teached so you can understand credit and interest rates.
Homemaking… like cooking and cleaning?
Parents should teach you things