IMO Senior year all public HS should require

[BlackAchilles]

I agree with you, however, I believe that ensuring that young adults can read and comprehend at a satisfactory level that will make the transition into college (making it easier to do college - level work) is more important, maybe even paramount.

I'm in the middle of reading "How to Read a Book" and this shyt is about to change everything, hopefully including my life. This may sound corny, but... "Reading is fundamental."

Right but from my end the system already agrees; most places I think require 4 yrs of English. Econ was optional at my school and few kids took it, and while "consumer math" may have addressed personal finance (I never took that class) it was widely known as a class for dumb seniors to post up and get assigned busy work.

 

[NatiboyB]

Intro to economics first half of the year, followed by personal finance second half, kinda like how they did gym/"health" freshman year at my HS. Curriculum should include:

• Basic overview of market economy/ our consumer and debt driven society
• Intro to different types of assets/investments
• Profile of current data regarding income/wages/typical consumer
• Student loan and loan debt

I say it's mad irresponsible that schools are behind all this STEM talk, acting like you're gonna live in a van down by the river if you don't learn all the subtleties of a right vs scalene triangle, but want to push students out the nest with basically zero real world financial knowledge, shyt is

You missed credit....I was straight ignorant to credit when I turned 18 than I found at 19 I had been had cable and telephone service since I was little one

 

[QuintessentialBM]

Right but from my end the system already agrees; most places I think require 4 yrs of English. Econ was optional at my school and few kids took it, and while "consumer math" may have addressed personal finance (I never took that class) it was widely known as a class for dumb seniors to post up and get assigned busy work.

It depends on which schools, and ultimately, which states will put forth the funding to make it happen. States like MA, CT, RI, UT would make that kind of investment. States like OK, MS, LA, AL... maybe not as much.

I would like to know the stats on how many non-AP students nationally attend a high learning institution and actually have satisfactory grades in math courses?

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

, acting like you're gonna live in a van down by the river if you don't learn all the subtleties of a right vs scalene triangle, but want to push students out the nest with basically zero real world financial knowledge, shyt is

so true. our k-12 education system is an absolute joke. I remember I got a D in geometry because of some project where you set up a mini put-putt course with angles measured out and all this bullshyt. I literally learned NOTHING k-12. History and English is the only subjects I ever had competent teachers.

then you get to college and have no idea how to even study, I did bad my first few semesters.

 

[filial_piety]

Hmm sounds more an obligation that parents should have towards their children.

I swear some of y'all expect everything to be subsidized

 

[SirReginald]

The American K-12 system is straight up TRASH. I had to re- learn Math quick when I first got to college.

 

[QuintessentialBM]

Hmm sounds more an obligation that parents should have towards their children.

I swear some of y'all expect everything to be subsidized

No... our system is that bad when you consider the amount of resources that are put into our schools... and we pay for the shyt anyways...

 

[BlackAchilles]

Hmm sounds more an obligation that parents should have towards their children.

I swear some of y'all expect everything to be subsidized

Isn't one of the goals of high school (at least ostensibly) to prepare students to be functioning adults? Because I think that's a crucial part.

And leaving it up to the parents would disproportionately hurt children from poor/immigrant backgrounds too.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

The American K-12 system is straight up TRASH. I had to re- learn Math quick when I first got to college.

breh, I had to learn HOW TO STUDY quick when I got to college. I had no idea I had to study so hard. I never had to study in highschool. Maybe once or twice for history.

 

[filial_piety]

Isn't one of the goals of high school (at least ostensibly) to prepare students to be functioning adults? Because I think that's a crucial part.

And leaving it up to the parents would disproportionately hurt children from poor/immigrant backgrounds too.

That's a very broad way of looking at it without exactly defining what "prepare" is, or what being a "functional adult" actually means. You can debate the necessary curriculum to accomplish that goal all day. IMO the proposal to implement Personal Finance/Economics as requirement for graduation is just another way to let parents off the hook of their household and paternal responsibilities. It seems that a lot (not all) of these proposals are a way to pass the buck so to speak. The solution is easy...raise your children...sit down with them, explain to them how to manage a bank account, how to avoid unecessary/bad debt...and how to pay bills and keep your FICO score up. Mentor them...don't try to control them, but guide them and things will work themselves out.

BTW, my HS had this as a requirement, and quite honestly it really didn't do a thing for me. Learning how to manage your personal finances really is a learn as you go type of process.

As far as the poor and/or immigrants being disproportionately "hurt?" Too bad. Get it together already. If you need help, it's out there.

 

[filial_piety]

No... our system is that bad when you consider the amount of resources that are put into our schools... and we pay for the shyt anyways...

The system is fine. The parenting is primarily the problem.

 

[newworldafro]

the school is a pipeline to prison for young black kids....

shaun king on twitter just wrote some shyt exposing one of the prisons down south...

them prison guards gassing folks to death like Adolf Hilter....




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...die-dozens-of-guards-fired-in-Florida-prisons

Randall Jordan-Aparo died weeping and gasping for breath on the concrete floor of his prison isolation cell, naked except for his white boxer shorts.
Incensed that he had cursed at a nurse, guards at Franklin Correctional Institution in the Panhandle fired nine blasts of noxious gas into his 13-by-8 cell through a slot in the door and, ultimately, left him there, sobbing.

“I can’t breathe, I can’t take it no more, please help me,’’ he pleaded.

Five hours later, the 27-year-old was found lifeless, face-down on the bare slab. His mouth and nose were pressed to the bottom of the door, as if trying to gulp fresh air through the thin crack. His hair, legs, toes, torso and mouth were dusted with a faint orange residue, a byproduct of the gas. A paperback Bible was under his shoulder.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement sent two investigators, Michael Kennedy and Michael DeVaney, to look into what had occurred. Their conclusion, summarized in one paragraph: The “disciplinary actions” taken by guards had no bearing on the death.

“They just said he got sick,’’ Jordan-Aparo’s father, Thomas Aparo, recalled being told by corrections officials.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

The system is fine. The parenting is primarily the problem.

parenting is part of it, but some of the curriculum is so is standardized testing

 

[Mowgli]

Better do it earlier then that. Most kids have lost interest by senior year

 

[Mowgli]

White devils