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They need to bring back home ec (economics).
Basic cooking, nutrition and finance. How taxes work, voting, credit, bills and even dealing with cops (be respectful, no sudden movements, know your rights, shut the fuck up).
How to adult for kids who don't get taught at home.
What is the EC part?
Pretty sure we still do cooking and "how to operate a kitchen" classes here in northern Europe. In Denmark it's "hjemkundskab" - basically "skills for homekeeping"
Finances not so much though, that should be a class on its own
Short for “home economics”
Is it just food stamp tactics?
Not sure what that means—but back in the day, girls took home ec (cooking, sewing, cleaning, etc.) while boys took shop (carpentry, machine repair).
It was just a hostile joke towards Americans, sorry.
Yea we have both for everyone, probably the most relevant skills to learn. Build a bird house, learn to cook, and patching up clothes. Real world skills
Agreed. School focuses too much on stem. It should be there to prepare you for life. Go to Uni if you want to advance in stem.
School should also teach other basics like taxes, finance and budgeting.
And the S part of STEM is pretty important for actually understanding the issues facing voters (and our world)
And the T part of STEM is pretty important for actually functioning in the modern world of computing.
The M part of STEM is pretty important for taxes, finance and budgeting.
I'm not saying totally ignore STEM. But do 12th graders really need to know logarithms? Maybe take a few weeks to calculate your taxes instead and understand how tax brackets work.
Logarithms and exponentials were pretty important for understanding the pandemic. Understanding logarithms and exponentials is important for getting the behaviour of interest (which, if you want to use credit cards, is pretty key).
More generally, learning maths gives you the skill to be able to learn how to do all these key life things like budget etc.. — it gets you numerically literate. Means when something comes up like (for example) scaremongering over vaccines, you know enough about maths and stats to interrogate the statement made and determine whether you believe the study. Just teaching the skills without their basis is flawed imo.