I hate reading this kind of shit. Schools are meant to provide background knowledge on how the world works. Some responsibility in educating children actually is the parents’ job. Pushing everything towards schools and pretending kids would listen for even 5 minutes when talking about insurance, taxes or job applications is mind bogglingly naive to me and completely leaves out parents and their part of education their OWN fucking kids.
But yeah, it’s all part of the “system” that parents are too fucking lazy to spend even 10 minutes a day with their kids and prepare them for life.
So ‘don’t bother even offering real-world, helpful information to students, and if the parent is a piece of shit, well little Timmy can get fucked’?
How exactly does that help anyone?
I fucking hated school both because I was held back while everyone else reached a decent level, and also it didn’t actually teach me anything fucking useful, especially during high school. I don’t need to know about science or mathematics beyond a middle-school level, I needed to be fucking prepared for this shithole that adults called ‘the real world’. Now I can code in a bunch of different languages, and I know computer hardware and modern software/OSs in and out, but fuck me for bringing up the fact that nobody helped me with resumes or job interviews or how to do literally anything beyond buying food from the snack bar. I would have appreciated the opportunity, but nah fuck me, here is woodworking.
The problem occurs when the parents aren’t smart enough to teach their kids how to do taxes and whatnot.
Should we resign those kids to their fate because they were dealt a hand which involves stupid parents?
