“It should be a required course in high school.”
I agree. May I also add that I think that ECONOMICS should also be taught. Maybe if more people really understood how an economy works, they would vote intelligently. Although, I do admit, that in today’s US public schools, I do NOT trust the teacher’s unions to teach it truthfully.
My college age kids (oldest finishes college today :) know and understand economics because I taught them!! They have been taxpayers since age 15 (their Dad and I thought working after school was a valuable life lesson)and they vote like taxpayers not like “idealistic college kids”!
I pray for my country. We need public education to “teach the fundamental origins of our country”.
Absolutely! I graduated in '73 and when I was about 25 I looked back and thought 'these last few years would have gone a lot better if there had been a few classes that taught us how to fill out a job application, how to do tax forms and what a renter's basic rights and responsibilities are.' All of that wouldn't have even taken up one semester in one course and would have saved me and many others I knew a lot of grief and tension.
Just a little brush with some basic life skills that go a long way towards getting a good start.