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LCCyncity
The only kids that get this sort of education where I'm from are "essential learners" who don't succeed in mainstream courses.
ThePartyLeader
Well would you look at that
anaprophylacticshock
Life Skills: Also included: balancing a checkbook, how much living on your own really costs, basic cooking/baking etc. Class dc'd 1yr later.
fsharpminor3s
Yup! We had auto shop and we had home economics
DukePhelan
Or maybe parents could take a hand and teach their kids the basic of life outside of academia? Nah just have those over paid teachers do it
zombiekiller0
Ngl im 26 and still have no idea how to change a tire
nmarkroberts
This stuff isn't usually taught?
Faridovitch
It’s part of the driving license exam in most European countries ?
cowsarekool
That actually makes a lot more sense to me than learning it in school.
LovelyMover
My dad showed me how to do that in torquay. Well he told me how & I did it thinking back on it
SultanaBB
No it doesn’t need to be taught by schools. It needs to be taught by parents.
TheGhostofCarrieFisher
There are so many real world skills that high school students can learn now and should get credit for. I suggest a basic finance course.
SawdustAndRust
I’d teach this on the weekends. I used to teach high school and I still mentor 30+ young adults on everything from home repair to finances.
SciFiGuy2018
Don't cars come with manuals? And if they don't, there's a thing called the internet, search for one ya lazy bastards.
aChungusAmongUs
I went to high school in a small village. School was so broke my senior year they cut ever single elective... even music classes.
anotherdickat
Along with budgeting, balancing a checkbook, basic cooking
SS2000Ali
Yes to the women, bitch slap dem mens...?
WhiteyandtheFullEffect
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell!!!
RichAndWilling
Teach people how to vote. Not just presidential elections, all elections local and national.
Flooferdoof
What else would we add to this class? Balancing a checking account? Applying for health insurance? Resume building?
Toinifintyandbeyond
Powder Puff auto mechanic class for girls in my day.
Moldyplantproblems
It used to be the parents job to fill in what the school didn't. Schools aren't parents.
BatLadyRielle
I mean sure but isn't it better to have an educated society? What if their home life isn't great? or their parents don't have a car?
TheYoungerChrisEvans
I taught quite a few fellow soldiers how to perform basic automotive skills. Oil, tires, things like that. Surprising amount don't know.
justanotherpervatwork
Learn from real life experience. Hell I even know how to use a toilet brush.
Johnsky
The amount of times I've had to pull over to stop someone from losing fingers/toes while putting their spare on is just absurd.
76breakbeats
I'd like to hear this absurd number.
Ulthirm
Tbf absurd should be anything above 0, because it shouldn't be an issue. It should be a taught skill to everyone. It should be a skill
Ulthirm
You are taught and tested on to get your license, same as with having a proper kit of supplies for an emergency. You don't want to get
Ulthirm
Trapped in a snow drift, shit gets cold quick. I know, I've done it before.
glaug
If I had a nickel for every time it's happened, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
L0rdHuggington
we actually did have these classes when I was in high school, and I'm relatively young. when did it all start to go downhill?
gumblemuntz
My high school had printing and drafting classes as an alternative to auto shop. Learned to run an offset press, letterpress, silkscreening
gumblemuntz
Came in very handy in my eventual advertising career. Plus knowing the basics of reading a blueprint and 3D projection. Cool beans.
gumblemuntz
And I know a LOT of the auto shop guys eventually went into the area automotive industry, or repair shops, etc. or just fix their own cars
AlaSnackbar
Few more years and this would void your cars warrenty with how companies are making and policing the cars.
lwoshea
So... do parents have absolutely NO obligation whatsoever to ever teach any goddamn thing at all to any of their own damn children???
Ulthirm
So I mean, I guess just fuck all the kids in foster care, and their kids too while we're at it. They don't matter anyways right. The only
Ulthirm
People that matter are kids with a parent that has a good enough job to support the whole family and still has their spouse, and isn't
Ulthirm
Abusive, or a child of the aforementioned foster children (or a foster themselves)
Molotovbliss
Single parent, a mom isn't going to teach you automotive things. She may not be the best to learn budgeting from either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
sylkysmooth
Parents can't be relied upon to teach their kids anything but being like the parents. You can't force parents to teach their kids anything.
ratcamper
That's great! But how do people even survive without knowing this stuff?
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
We had this when I was in school. THen they started cutting budgets and teaching tests and not skills
CWrightPills
Also stopped teaching critical thinking, another important life skill
ridge
They don't want thinkers, they want workers.
Winstitutionalized
**sports budgets are yuge**
Angyliqueone
It’s not their choice to do all these tests. It’s the responsibility of the system that put it on them.
Gonz15
Yup. Seems like people are quick to forget “No Child Left Behind”. Don’t blame schools, blame lawmakers.
BabeAfett
No child left behind actually left a lot of kids behind...
DoomeD2Walk
Yep
secretagentchewbacca
Teacher here, can confirm. Too much money has been shifted from vocational ed to testing
ColClone54
They shopped you the skills of taking a test (and learning little else). That's the same thing as learning life skills, right? Right?
CaptFizzler
Yep, they cut metal shop when I was a freshman. Two years after I graduated, I had a pro level wood shop in my moms garage. 24” planer etc.
iDidNotShaveMyBallsForThis
Not all schools do this? I leaned this in driver’s ed.
somnif
My school didn't have drivers ed either
sylkysmooth
My school has never taught driver's ed, but they have told you where you can sign up to pay for it from an outside company during summer.
LeSethX
Various "adulting" classes were optional for me. I took a home ed / cooking class, but still dont cook much at home.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Same here. A lot of schools have had to cut driver's ed due to budget cuts. I will forever miss the ridiculous driving simulator we had.
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
Which of course we called "the stimulator."
DonkeyGoat
I think we just drove in driver's ed. It's called driver's ed, not mechanic's ed. /s
EVO4thaW1N
Same. For like 5 minutes. It was more "bored out of our minds" ed
thewalkinged
In the UK test there's a basic element of looking under the hood and checking the oil... Changing a tyre would have been useful!
thewalkinged
Although now I think about it, I could probably just learn on the internet... But I don't have a car... So I won't bother....
KingOFrod
Do it anyway. If you spend any time in motor vehicles, it's useful information.
slaughterhouse4andahalf
Should be part of the drivers' test, IMO.
glaug
I was never *taught* how to change a tire, but it's pretty self-explanatory. Amusingly, I was inadvertently tested on it when I was 15 »
glaug
» minutes early for my driving test, and when the examiner and I got to the car and did the pre-test inspection, I had a flat tire. He was »
glaug
» about to disqualify me, but I objected because that it wasn't even my scheduled appt time yet. He gave me until then to put the donut on.
i4raiders
We use to call it auto shop
Fatkats93
Shut up you socialist /s
philosoraptopterodactyl
I took shop class in high school, Changed a wheel in 84 seconds! Was also probably my favorite class.
pnty
Weird, I just called him Dad.
RealRaceRiotsAreAboutGettingBlueshelledInMarioKart
Same with Home Ec, but since it's not in common core, it's stopped being taught
PballQhead
Shop was a half-day class in my HS, geared towards the vocational kids. We offered a 1-unit "auto survival" class but I was the only person>
PballQhead
who took it...and I didn't even need the skills, I was a decent wrench, I just wanted a free real garage to work on my car lol
longshorttermmemorynetwork
I mean, we used to call it parenting.
emjay9010
"Adulting Classes" is good in that gets them really looking forward and enthusiastic about Fornication week.
d1d1t4t3hlulz0hl4wdy
*raises hand* I took auto shop. Also took home economics. Cars and cake, fuck yar.
MalePerson
My auto shop class was 4 weeks of learning about different types of fasteners. Because they want to make sure you were "serious"
R100GSPD
Before the dark times, before the budget cuts.
MVPHingleMcCringleBerry
It’s called drivers ed
realscrumpysteve
We used to have more funding for those kinds of classes
mrthroatwarblermangrove
"used to." It didn't exist in my highschool. We had home ec, but it was "this is a sewing machine" "you bake cookies in the oven".
mrthroatwarblermangrove
I'm only 27 btw
YourNeighborhoodLesbian
At my school, you had to go to a different school and miss two class periods to take auto shop. If it was offered at school I woulda done it
Billybob595
I did a course very similar, leave school thursday lunch time, go to another school and stay till 5 learning about cars, it was good fun
donkeystothecastle
Still is
saldrSleepTaker
Always was
AesirBiker
We called it life skills. Opposite semester of health class. Learned to cook, basic budgeting, and a bunch of stuff. New Mexico is weird lol
Taishosama
thats weird!? i wish we had that class in my school!
Nalianna
Consumer education, at my school. Budgeting, tyre changing, etc. low end cooking. - we had another class that taught higher levels of that
Waytigo
At my school we called it CALM class. Career and Life Management.
RectalPunchfromHell
In my high schooldays, these types of classes were electives. We had a choice to take them. Wished it was like yours
jskskj8888
Our HS it was an elective. Should be required. Learned about credit too.
ChrisHemsworthsBulge
Weird? Sounds fucking nice, instead of learning the hard way and fucking up. Would have saved me a good amount of cash in my early 20s.
AesirBiker
I don't think they do it anymore it was back in early 2000s. Weird that we had a class everyone should take, normally we are far behind.
KittyAmin
New Mexico here, too! We called it FACS (family and consumer sciences)
Cavalrysword
I went to the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy.
AesirBiker
Hello! I went to Sandia and NMMI.
KittyAmin
I went to a strange charter high school in Las Cruces
AesirBiker
Nice. My uncle was the park superintendent for elephant Butte and Caballo Lake.
clucja1
That's what it was called in Minnesota. In The early 2000s at least
TiredOfTheBS
My Life Skills class was all about cooking and sewing. I would have loved if it had things like auto and how to hang a shelf and stuff.
imcurrentlyatabar
Ditto. I made chocolate chip cookies (from a mix) and sewed a cow on a piece of fabric (didn’t even learn to hem pants or something).
TiredOfTheBS
Sewed a what on a what?
ElvisStarburst
They sewed an entire cow onto a piece of fabric, of course