Posted on 03/24/2019 5:29:08 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Students in Kentucky took a break from calculus and dodgeball to learn so real-life skills to help them 'adult' when they leave school.
Bullitt Central High School in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, have been educating its seniors in practical skills to help them become better prepared for 'real life.'
The so called 'adulting day,' held in the school, offered students workshops covering a whole host of adult topics from cooking to budgeting.
Graduating seniors were able to choose which workshops they wanted to attend and could pick three out of 11.
Students interested in basic car maintenance skills were shown how to change a tire.
Others learnt how to whip up meals in their dorm room, presumably to help them save money and so they wouldn't have to eat out all the time.
Financial topics were also discussed from savings accounts to checking accounts, and how to responsibly use credit cards and build a credit score.
The Shepherdsville Police Department also came by and students were shown how to behave if they were pulled over by a police officer.
Members of the Army discussed potential careers in the military and the realities of army life while students took part in fitness drills.
On its Facebook page, Bullitt Central High School said it wanted its students 'to gain more knowledge and skills pertaining to their lives once they leave.'
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Far better instruction than the collectivist doctrine of the normal school day.
Sigh.
Oh, for the days when parents used to do this.
My high school offered auto mechanics, home economics, and ag class.
Home economics was laughed at but sometimes I think I would have benefited from the class.
I took the auto mechanics route. Ag didn’t interest me since I grew up in farming.
A semester or two of basic life skills and functioning in society would help many people. Big Ed of course wouldn’t want that. How dare anyone be self sufficient?
I’ve said forever that high schools need to have personal finance courses as a requirement to graduate. They would be a damn sight more valuable that wasting time learning a foreign language.
—yeah—I learned those things in a “home” from people called “parents”—
“How not to get your @$$ kicked by the cops.”
It’s a sad day in the USA when THIS is news.
The left should he so proud! I’m sure these kids already know how to change their gender; that capitalism is the second worst thing ever to happen on earth, behind global warming...
But they barely know how to add and subtract small numbers.
My worthless high school didn’t care about anyone unless they were on the college prep track. It was the richest in the state though.
About half the people meant nothing. I know for I was one. School was boring and easy for the most part.
No money for things like JROTC though. A great many of the uncared for would have done most anything to get JRTOC. The football team and band were always in good shape. That’s what mattered. Also endless prep rallies. I worked at evading them. Sometimes I was successful.
I wouldn’t give a bent nickel for the whole lot of the school administration types that were in charge.
Learning a foreign language is not a waste of time. Most valuable courses I took in an academic program in high school late 60s was Spanish and typing. Who knew we would be keyboarding and that Spanish would be so useful. I wish I was fluent.
Lol! My first thought too!
Learning a foreign language is not a waste of time. Most valuable courses I took in an academic program in high school late 60s was Spanish and typing. Who knew we would be keyboarding and that Spanish would be so useful. I wish I was fluent.
I know I would have....with that being said, the only class that helped me in the real world was typing. It helped me get my army MOS too.....
I took some spanish in Jr. and high school. Although I never spoke it well. I could read and write in it OK.
It actually helped me in English classes.
Personal finance required for seniors in Missouri.
In my freshman high school year, I was allowed one elective - typing or auto mechanics.
Guess which one I took.
Me at 14: “Typing is for girls! I’ll have a secretary to do all my typing!”
To this day, I wish I’d taken typing. Who’d a thunk 40 years later I would need that skill in everyday life.
Karma’s a bitch.
That should be a requirement for college too, first year mandatory classes on common sense before any classes toward a major.
I took typing as an elective to fill my senior HS schedule.
At the time I didn’t think much of it but I learned a fair amount and I had a good teacher. That short class did pay off later in technology land.
My class was the last one to use electric typewriters. The next was going to go into word processing.
Home economics and shop covered it all when I was in 7th and 8th grade.
As did mine. I went to high school in the mid 1970's. Auto Mechanics, Home Economics for example were electives and we had to choose from a list electives every year in addition to the required readin', writin' and 'rithmetic.
I also took basic electronics courses in high school which has served me well over the years (I'm going on 57 now.) Still remember the basic formula's, how to diagnose a basic circuit, read a schematic and perform most of my own basic electronics repairs.
I'd much rather kids these days had to learn how to change a tire, check and change their own oil and do basic mechanics than learn why Johnnie has two mommies or get indoctrinated by the homosexual "community."
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