FabSwingers.com forum: Teaching life skills in school

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Do you think this should be a subject in every secondary school. and be a compulsory lesson like Maths and English?

I’m in a debate on social media about this. I think personally it’s a good idea.

Many many young people leave school with knowing nothing about life skills.

Many don’t know how to boil and egg, iron a shirt or manage money.

Many say that it should be down to parents to teach their children this.

I disagree, I think it should be taught by both parents and schools.

What’s your take on this, do you think life skills

Should be taught in school?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is a good idea but I thought, as a parent, that was kinda my job

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

I do not actually. This is the kind of stuff that kids should be learning from their parents. Finances should and is taught in schools but there it should end.

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

"It is a good idea but I thought, as a parent, that was kinda my job"

Wash your mouth out!!!!

Parents ... parenting????

Whatever next!!!!

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By *rSuave88Man
over a year ago

Mirfield

Schools and teachers already have enough on their plates as it is. Personally i believe this is the duty of the parents. Otherwise what use is a parent if they cannot teach their children the elementary skills for life.

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London

I'm all for schools doing as much as possible to prepare kids for adulthood.

I don't see why life skills should be considered separate from academic skills.

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

My parents never taught me how to iron, cook, or manage money, and somehow I still manage it. There's a YouTube video for everything these days, they'll be fine

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Absolutely 100% agree.

Most of the shite I learned at school had zero meaning in the adult world. Life skills , especially in today's world, is more important than ever .

Good thread OP

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

I think parents should teach basic home skills, but anything to do with money, debt and those kind of things I believe should be part of the curriculum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He in school does that type of thing, sewing, cooking, keeping a household etc I think it stopped at 3rd year though as it wasn't compulsory. Maybe it should be.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"He in school does that type of thing, sewing, cooking, keeping a household etc I think it stopped at 3rd year though as it wasn't compulsory. Maybe it should be. "

H. E.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Where it can be tied in, yes. Like modelling paying taxes as a mathematical exercise.

I think part of the purpose of the education system is to provide a minimum standard. Including, perhaps especially, for those children who are unfortunate enough not to have adequate parents.

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London

Some children don't have very good parents. Some children have ill parents. Some children only have one parent who has to spend all their time working to make ends meet. There are plenty of other situations.

The attitude that school shouldn't help kids with certain things because their parents should do it is unhelpful for those who aren't lucky enough to have that option.

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By *ikingCoolMan
over a year ago

carmarthen

Most parents don't have the time , they both have to work

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think money management should be so you don't get the cycle repeating its self if the parents are terrible with money.

I do think some home economics should be taught like it was when my parents were at school. Wireing a plug etc

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Schools and teachers already have enough on their plates as it is. Personally i believe this is the duty of the parents. Otherwise what use is a parent if they cannot teach their children the elementary skills for life. "

But some children are not always fortunate to have good parenting

What about those who parents who are addicts and don’t give a damn about their kids and only care about their addictions

Who’s there to teach them life skills

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Do you think this should be a subject in every secondary school. and be a compulsory lesson like Maths and English?

I’m in a debate on social media about this. I think personally it’s a good idea.

Many many young people leave school with knowing nothing about life skills.

Many don’t know how to boil and egg, iron a shirt or manage money.

Many say that it should be down to parents to teach their children this.

I disagree, I think it should be taught by both parents and schools.

What’s your take on this, do you think life skills

Should be taught in school?"

No.

They get tought that stuff in primary school or food technology.

They don't need any more "fluff subjects" and politicly/religion inclusive themed lessons.

I think the most serious thing they lack is propper physical exercise.

They should be doing "mile run" every day in primary school when ready...

Then push that to 2 mile

Then 3 mile later in high school....

They learn how to be naughty and bully eachother in school...

But they should spend more time each day exercising for fitness.

I also think martial arts would be usefull for them in some capacity..

But overall academic lessons should be focused and repetetive because adults underestimate how long it takes a class to learn something we take for granted as basic.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Some children don't have very good parents. Some children have ill parents. Some children only have one parent who has to spend all their time working to make ends meet. There are plenty of other situations.

The attitude that school shouldn't help kids with certain things because their parents should do it is unhelpful for those who aren't lucky enough to have that option. "

Exactly this is my point

Some children are as lucky as others

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I enjoy teaching kids my kids things. My youngest likes to help me cook Sunday dinner, I recently taught my oldest how to repair a puncture on his push bike. Life skills should be taught at home.

And let teachers teach them about things I dont know about like maths and spelins

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Absolutely 100% agree.

Most of the shite I learned at school had zero meaning in the adult world. Life skills , especially in today's world, is more important than ever .

Good thread OP

Thank you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But some children are not always fortunate to have good parenting

What about those who parents who are addicts and don’t give a damn about their kids and only care about their addictions

Who’s there to teach them life skills

And those parents are always worse towards the teacher...

They send their kid to school sleepy/covered in bruises/dirty

Idk but school has enough to do teaching them academic things...

Parents should take a step to raise their own children...

But they often don't really care as much as they proclaim.

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By *rSuave88Man
over a year ago

Mirfield

But some children are not always fortunate to have good parenting

What about those who parents who are addicts and don’t give a damn about their kids and only care about their addictions

Who’s there to teach them life skills

Id like to believe that is true for only small percentage of the population. And for them there is already extra provisions for them in education that are available to them if they require it. Schools are increasingly offering extra support services. But the buck still ultimately lies with the parent.

Maybe parenting classes would be more useful in the long run rather than dumping it all on the teachers.

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Away for Christmas

It should be a parents job yes, but due to the way things are for a lot of people, some parents barely have time to spend with their children as a family in the first place (forced to work multiple jobs or horrible hours). Before anyone pulls the "don't have kids then" response, there are many reasons to end up in such a situation that could not have been fully expected or planned for.

There are a lot of pointless (in the grand scheme of things) school subjects to be honest, a lot of them should be optional to pursue further while actual life skills etc should be a part of school to a point.

I agree teachers do have a lot to deal with and do as itnos, for very little recognition or reward, I know a good number of teachers and their horror and frustration stories are intense at times.

It is still a teachers job to teach and prepare the children for what comes next in life after school. So just make certain things actual school subjects.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd make every subject mandatory until children turn 18.

Only I'd integrate them all into one subject. Life skills.

Teach them how to organise their personal life, domestic chores, social networks, morality, ethics, politics, foreign policies, history, technology, art, music, mental health, sexual education, sexuality, relationships, mindfulness, diet, fitness and sport.

I'd integrate maths, science, sociology, economics, English, IT, Languages into all of it. From preschool to Puberty.

4 years mandatory Higher Education in Vocational Colleges or Universities.

Free Education for Adults. Why hold someone back who wants to improve themselves, improve their usefulness, improve their society in the process.

Id also ban private education, private schools and religious schools. So that we're all given an equal start at the Game of Life.

Yes, education costs money, but can't we have an automation tax on any Company that uses AI/Machine automation? To improve productivity and profit margins?

Surely a clever, better educated society is better equipped to make sensible, long term solutions.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've tought children in thailand...

Now I've got a career (I shouldn't really talk much about)

But I would not want to teach children in this country.

If I had a child who was in school I would be really respect full towards the teacher. (Often marxists so sometimes I wouldn't like them)

But genrally it's a very difficult job 50% of people working in will simply hate.

Like this topic. In all respect. Nobody really apreciates how hard it is to make them sit down quietly and learn ABC/workbooks

Hardly any of the parents can look after 1 child propperly. Teachers must be publicly perfect with 25

Of them every day of the week.

It's not an easy job. I've done a few jobs and teaching was stressfull and disturbs your free time intermitently.

They DO actually get tought how to fry egg/bake bread/pies...all that stuff in primary/technology

But you can't just throw all the other things your teaching them asside to go to an egg frying class.

By age 16 most of them are still thick as fuck and they continue that way all their adult lives.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As someone who works in FE yes it would be a good for the pupils

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

It depends how far you want the state to influence your child's upbringing. It already does in as far as saying how long they must be in school, what minimum level of education they should obtain and when they're allowed to work. It now also has influence over what they eat within school hours and how they should be thinking about certain subjects.

My kids didn’t need lessons on how to cook, shop, manage money or what side of the envelope to stick a stamp on. We taught them that in the way we wanted to, we taught them the things we as their parents felt they needed to know. Neither of us wanted that duty carried out to state prescribed criteria.

If other parents want to hand patenting over to the authorities that's their business just don't enforce it on us all.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

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