How to pay bills now a public school requirement in Louisiana - Polidicks

Good! National law when? [QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;50853941]12 years? Is it really beneficial to start in first grade already?[/QUOTE] The younger they are the more likely they are to accept and assimilate the information. It should be K-12 nationwide.

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[QUOTE=TestECull;50854802]Good! National law when? The younger they are the more likely they are to accept and assimilate the information. It should be K-12 nationwide.[/QUOTE] And I'd say the time to really start hitting with some real in-depth information would be about late middleschool. Because unfortunately some kids in their high school years might actually be needing that information.

[QUOTE=mark6789;50854003]Eh i wasnt taught anything in school and i pay all of my bills on time. Just dont spend it on stupid shit. All of my bills are sent to my email. But most people i know are scraping by because they cant control themselves so i guess this is a good thing.[/QUOTE] Meanwhile, this friend of mine doesn't knows what to waste his money on. He bought a dirt bike, only to sell it a month after again. Same for the seadoo he bought. Used it probably a whole week during the summer, and then sold it again.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50853949]I actually wish more young people were taught this. Even my dad taught me how to budget. This is a pretty damn important life skill to have and you need it.[/QUOTE] Exactly! Though I don't really have too many financial problems right now, it would have been nice if my school bothered to teach us such crucial life skills, rather than sit back and do fuck-all while ill-raised inbred twats throw my bags down the stairs. Or try and shovel dry and dusty geography down our throats without so much as a dollop of ketchup. Knowing how to sort out one's bills is far more valuable than knowing how an oxbow lake is formed, and even though there's some value in knowing about oxbow lakes, you could learn about them in 30 seconds flat with an informative cartoon. [video]https://youtu.be/8Xer45n-E7w[/video]

I had one finance class in high school. It was an elective, the teacher mainly put on movies and went to sleep, and the ONLY thing we were ever taught was how to write a check. Glad to see more importance being put into these classes.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;50854667]School isn't just about what's useful to you. Schools teach things that are important to know about and understand, and also teach you how to think critically. They're there to give everyone a basic understanding of how the world works so that we don't end up with a society full of idiots.[/QUOTE] Yup, and you never know if one of those classes would spark a passion. What we definitely need is a well rounded education, and life management classes only help round it out further.

[QUOTE=SebiWarrior;50854686]We live in a world where people are constantly having less time for themselves Parents have to work and run errands for the house, the family and what have you[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=RenegadeCop;50855326]I didn't even know how to do the laundry or shave my face. I begged my parents to teach me, but they just didn't. I have to google this shit, thank goodness for the internet.[/QUOTE] Yup. I also believe there is less sense of a community in western society nowadays. "It takes a village to raise a child" is quite true imo, but we don't have that anymore. People are getting more and more isolated/independent (since it is possible), and we don't really have that sense of connection to one another. This change in society which has come gradually has these downsides. We miss out on learning a lot. Parents should probably involve their children more with other people and in the housework.

[QUOTE=ironman17;50855340]Exactly! Though I don't really have too many financial problems right now, it would have been nice if my school bothered to teach us such crucial life skills, rather than sit back and do fuck-all while ill-raised inbred twats throw my bags down the stairs. Or try and shovel dry and dusty geography down our throats without so much as a dollop of ketchup. Knowing how to sort out one's bills is far more valuable than knowing how an oxbow lake is formed, and even though there's some value in knowing about oxbow lakes, you could learn about them in 30 seconds flat with an informative cartoon. [/QUOTE] This reminds me of how one of my history teachers honestly could not justify teaching history to us. The best reason she could give us was "you might be on a game show someday and this could be a question." She couldn't even muster up an answer like we need this information to graduate if we want to go to a university if we want to amount to anything or that by learning from past mistakes, we can build a better future. She's been teaching high school history for decades and for all those years she could never come up with a good reason for teaching.

Always important to learn from the mistakes and successes of others. That should be the big reason there, like "we can do with more folks like Florence Nightingale", or "don't be like Donald Trump, we have enough of those already", or "the high-and-mighty didn't heed the warnings, now we're all in deep trouble".

Budgeting requires a great deal of critical thinking skills as someone said earlier. It also teaches kids from an early age how to be economical with what they have, and that could extend itself to things other than money, like learning how to reduce one's waste and generally being a better citizen.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;50855326] I have to google this shit, thank goodness for the internet.[/QUOTE] I didn't even do that, I kind of just took a razor and moved it down my face until hair was gone. Still haven't nicked myself, and I can shave dry with no problems so I've got that going for me.

[QUOTE=Shadow801;50853961]This is ridiculously important My parents didn't teach me how to do finances and I could of got settled a couple of years earlier if I had been taught how to budget well in school[/QUOTE] I learned about saving money and budgeting when I was kid but I wish I was taught how to pay bills too though that set me back a bit.

[QUOTE=Dr.C;50855821]This reminds me of how one of my history teachers honestly could not justify teaching history to us. The best reason she could give us was "you might be on a game show someday and this could be a question." She couldn't even muster up an answer like we need this information to graduate if we want to go to a university if we want to amount to anything or that by learning from past mistakes, we can build a better future. She's been teaching high school history for decades and for all those years she could never come up with a good reason for teaching.[/QUOTE] I get the feeling history wasnt what she wanted to teach. [editline]10th August 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Mango;50855762]Yup. I also believe there is less sense of a community in western society nowadays. "It takes a village to raise a child" is quite true imo, but we don't have that anymore. People are getting more and more isolated/independent (since it is possible), and we don't really have that sense of connection to one another. This change in society which has come gradually has these downsides. We miss out on learning a lot. Parents should probably involve their children more with other people and in the housework.[/QUOTE] I can't say I mind much, but I could see how it might cause issues with raising brats to be functional adults.

I was lucky I went to a private school because paying bills and other skills like that was taught in a Personal Finance class which, while an elective, was a really good class most people took. I wish more schools would require parenting as a class of some sort, because we have way too many shitty parents who don't know how to raise children and there are plenty of teenage parents here too. Knowing the proper way to discipline or reward a child, how not to spoil a child, how to deal with tantrums, basically all the skills you need to be a parent. Yeah some people might never want to have kids but people's thoughts on the matter change as they get older and some people don't plan on it happening so knowing how to raise a kid is pretty vital.