"Success Clubs" in schools?

[Concerned American]

All public schools should have classes teaching students the basics of successful everyday life, These can be part of the regular curriculum or extra curricular.

1. What taxes they'll pay and how to do their taxes.
2. How to make a budget, balance a checkbook, what records we need to keep and for how long, the value of a good credit rating.
3. How to reset a circuit breaker and, perhaps in really old buildings, how to change a fuse.
4. How to change a tire.
5. Principles of compound interest and how that can both help us and hurt us.
6. Basics of investing in bonds, stocks, mutual funds.
7. A simple basic first aid course and how to read medicine labels and avoiding dangerous side effects of OTC meds.
8. Pros and cons of property ownership.
9. How to write a decent resume'.
10. Basics of good manners, etiquette, personal hygiene, dressing for success.
11. A simple crash course in various kinds of insurance.
12. Fundamentals of inexpensive cooking meals for one or two.

While it doesn't address all of the subjects that you list, we enrolled our daughter in the International Baccalaureate program that was offered in the underserved high school in our town. We had to ensure she made it across town to that high school in order to attend. It was a good program and offered many more subjects than the AP program in the school that was in our attendance area. We ensured that she was schooled in many of the subjects that you listed as well.

 

[Woodznutz]

That all just sounds incredibly vague and impossible to translate into an actual class

Most great ideas start this way.

 

[Woodznutz]

All public schools should have classes teaching students the basics of successful everyday life, These can be part of the regular curriculum or extra curricular.

1. What taxes they'll pay and how to do their taxes.
2. How to make a budget, balance a checkbook, what records we need to keep and for how long, the value of a good credit rating.
3. How to reset a circuit breaker and, perhaps in really old buildings, how to change a fuse.
4. How to change a tire.
5. Principles of compound interest and how that can both help us and hurt us.
6. Basics of investing in bonds, stocks, mutual funds.
7. A simple basic first aid course and how to read medicine labels and avoiding dangerous side effects of OTC meds.
8. Pros and cons of property ownership.
9. How to write a decent resume'.
10. Basics of good manners, etiquette, personal hygiene, dressing for success.
11. A simple crash course in various kinds of insurance.
12. Fundamentals of inexpensive cooking meals for one or two.

This would be a high school club. Your suggestions are more for the college level student.

 

[braalian]

Most great ideas start this way.

I don’t think you’re right about that

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

All public schools should have classes teaching students the basics of successful everyday life, These can be part of the regular curriculum or extra curricular.

1. What taxes they'll pay and how to do their taxes.
2. How to make a budget, balance a checkbook, what records we need to keep and for how long, the value of a good credit rating.
3. How to reset a circuit breaker and, perhaps in really old buildings, how to change a fuse.
4. How to change a tire.
5. Principles of compound interest and how that can both help us and hurt us.
6. Basics of investing in bonds, stocks, mutual funds.
7. A simple basic first aid course and how to read medicine labels and avoiding dangerous side effects of OTC meds.
8. Pros and cons of property ownership.
9. How to write a decent resume'.
10. Basics of good manners, etiquette, personal hygiene, dressing for success.
11. A simple crash course in various kinds of insurance.
12. Fundamentals of inexpensive cooking meals for one or two.

That is the parent's job mostly. I'll bet you didn't know that many of those items are already taught in school.

1. Your taxes can be done easily online using free software. If not, you pay someone else to do it. Not a serious issue.
2. Taught in middle school life skills.
3. Takes 2 minutes for a parent to teach. My grandson took electrical courses in high school as an elective vocational course.
4. No one changes tires anymore, but that is a parent's job. I taught my kids, and I will likely teach my grandkids or make sure the parents do.
5. Already taught in Algebra I.
6. Already taught in economics in high school.
7. Already taught in most health classes.
8. Already taught in economics in high school.
9. Completely unnecessary because resumes are ever changing in content and style.
10. Parents responsibility.
11. Too varied a subject for school. Should be self-taught if the parent's cannot do it.
12. Electives in many schools. My youngest grandson took culinary arts. He now does a lot of the family cooking. His stepfather cooks for the firehouse and teaches him.

How do I know these things? I taught many of them myself in life skills, and various economics and math classes.

 

[Unkotare]

We need general education for all high school students centered around making money and responsibly managing finances. We need to get kids involved in investing. Teach them about the stock market and other ways to grow their money. ....

I teach a unit on that very topic once a year to my advanced ESL students.

 

[Unkotare]

There is no "dream" nor should be tell young people to ascribe to it. Tell them life is going to be a grind. Prepare them for the reality.

The kids who are going to grind it out know it very well.

 

[Zincwarrior]

We had various after school clubs in high school, all non-academic and largely social. We should have "success clubs" for those who want to prepare for success while still in school. Foundational principles for achieving success could be taught by local leaders and successful businessmen and women. Admission to the club would require grades above a certain level as well as a good conduct history.

Dad's view of a success club was his belt.

 

[Woodznutz]

Dad's view of a success club was his belt.

His "board" of education?

 

[Zincwarrior]

His "board" of education?

Now you understand.

 

[Woodznutz]

Now you understand.

Yes. If kids won't pay attention you have to beat the lessons into them. Then on the tests you have to beat the answers out of them.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Job hoppers are the best employees in todays work world. Youre slow to catch on. Loyalty to an employer is a trait that is looked fown upon. Its a sign of a bad worker. An unproductive worker.

Nonsense.

That is the parent's job mostly. I'll bet you didn't know that many of those items are already taught in school.

1. Your taxes can be done easily online using free software. If not, you pay someone else to do it. Not a serious issue.
2. Taught in middle school life skills.
3. Takes 2 minutes for a parent to teach. My grandson took electrical courses in high school as an elective vocational course.
4. No one changes tires anymore, but that is a parent's job. I taught my kids, and I will likely teach my grandkids or make sure the parents do.
5. Already taught in Algebra I.
6. Already taught in economics in high school.
7. Already taught in most health classes.
8. Already taught in economics in high school.
9. Completely unnecessary because resumes are ever changing in content and style.
10. Parents responsibility.
11. Too varied a subject for school. Should be self-taught if the parent's cannot do it.
12. Electives in many schools. My youngest grandson took culinary arts. He now does a lot of the family cooking. His stepfather cooks for the firehouse and teaches him.

How do I know these things? I taught many of them myself in life skills, and various economics and math classes.

Nonsense. Much of this is not actually taught. Not one single time did I EVER hear the words "compound interest" spoken in high school. Neither did my nephew-at 16, he had NEVER HEARD THE TERM.

 

[Concerned American]

Nonsense. Much of this is not actually taught. Not one single time did I EVER hear the words "compound interest" spoken in high school. Neither did my nephew-at 16, he had NEVER HEARD THE TERM.

Not to disagree with your post, I don't. However in the case of your nephew, teaching compound interest in the time of negative interest rates would have been wasted time.

 

[Woodznutz]

Nonsense.


Nonsense. Much of this is not actually taught. Not one single time did I EVER hear the words "compound interest" spoken in high school. Neither did my nephew-at 16, he had NEVER HEARD THE TERM.

Why would a 16 y/o need to hear this?

 

[Concerned American]

Why would a 16 y/o need to hear this?

He's not going to be 16 forever. When I was a high school freshman in NM, they offered a class in General Business that touched on this and many other economic issues. It was a good, informative class.

 

[Unkotare]

He's not going to be 16 forever. When I was a high school freshman in NM, they offered a class in General Business that touched on this and many other economic issues. It was a good, informative class.

Most high schools have at least electives that cover this stuff.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Nonsense.


Nonsense. Much of this is not actually taught. Not one single time did I EVER hear the words "compound interest" spoken in high school. Neither did my nephew-at 16, he had NEVER HEARD THE TERM.

I am sorry you didn't pay attention in math class. You remember those Common Core standards you hated? One those standards for Algebra was for students to understand compound interest and how it is calculated. I am sorry your school system sucked, so do you want us to go back to that or what we do now?

I know this shit was taught because I ******* taught it, asshole!

The last time you were in school, who was the President, Carter?

 

[Unkotare]

I am sorry you didn't pay attention in math class. You remember those Common Core standards you hated? One those standards for Algebra was for students to understand compound interest and how it is calculated. I am sorry your school system sucked, so do you want us to go back to that or what we do now?

I know this shit was taught because I ******* taught it, asshole!

The last time you were in school, who was the President, Carter?

A lot of folks seem to think "I forgot that" = "I was never taught that!"

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with being a worker bee, getting by and having what you need and a few of the nicer things in life? What’s wrong with that?

I was born in the middle. I’ll die in the middle and I’m done with that. Being on top requires far too much stress, anxiety, extra hours without pay, and decision making. Not interested.

Who Put the Dividers in Your Lane?

You're being generic. In what class you are born shouldn't have anything to do with what class you wind up in. Omitting natural talent puts inferior people in superior positions.

Everybody beneath them suffers. It's best for the naturally blue collar to have the best white-collar managers possible, which doesn't happen in Terminal America.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The kids who are going to grind it out know it very well.

It wouldn't be a grind for anybody else if we didn't make it a grind for the talented Unfortunate Sons.