"Adulting school" is supposed to be adolescence, when your parents show you how to behave like a grown up and take on adult responsibilities. Laws are making it harder, but I think too many parents are falling down on the job here.
While I understand people getting mad in this thread - parents are falling down on the job. It's very difficult for society, in general to pick up all the slack, including the slack parents of these kids create by being oblivious AF. These are observation I've made of my own children and their peers and it was so alarming to me as a parent, I was more than happy to intercept it no matter who the kid was.
Do I think middle and high schoolers should be learning about basic life skills? Banking, budgeting, non-delusional sex ed, skills needed for the working world, the value of education and intelligence and critical thinking...yes. Should schools be teaching these things? Yes. In tandem with parents. And if you are an idiot that thinks - we shouldn't interfere/parents should be able to teach children bullshit with impunity/TAXPAYERS!! MY MONEY!! just shut the fuck up because you are also contributing to the problem and continuing to enforce the fact that America does not care about it's people, including it's children.
And I'm going to make this clear. I have seen several millennials on this forum ask questions that should have been answered by parents. The reason is almost always - my parents didn't teach me this. So stop getting mad at me or anyone identifying the problem. It isn't your fault but holding parents accountable for kids unable to cope with the world is something everyone should be doing. Including you.
In my experience, if you ask a parent or teacher a question, they ask you to look it up.
The difference in how much better the average homeschooled individual is than the average public/private school individual is staggering- both personally and intellectually. The tired old adage that public school is important because it teaches kids to socialize is garbage. Why learn to socialize with people who, like you, are not even mature enough to handle it? especially when those peoples dispositions, including yours, will be radically different (for the better) a few years after the fact anyhow.I'm pretty good at "adulting." *shrug* And all of my friends in my age group are very responsible as well. But then, most of my friends were home schooled, and we home schoolers need to be extra responsible so as to make up for our poor social skills; horrible fashion taste; excessive reading; and the fact that some of us do nerdy things like make homemade, honest-to-goodness swords and armor.
The difference in how much better the average homeschooled individual is than the average public/private school individual is staggering- both personally and intellectually. The tired old adage that public school is important because it teaches kids to socialize is garbage. Why learn to socialize with people who, like you, are not even mature enough to handle it? especially when those peoples dispositions, including yours, will be radically different (for the better) a few years after the fact anyhow.
I think genetics play a part too. All the homeschooled people I know are highly intelligent unique kind and personable people- and half of them did all of the work themselves without their parents at all.Yes it's staggering. I know a couple homeschooled kids that can barely read. This is all about parenting and how seriously that job is taken.
The difference in how much better the average homeschooled individual is than the average public/private school individual is staggering- both personally and intellectually. The tired old adage that public school is important because it teaches kids to socialize is garbage. Why learn to socialize with people who, like you, are not even mature enough to handle it? especially when those peoples dispositions, including yours, will be radically different (for the better) a few years after the fact anyhow.
The difference in how much better the average homeschooled individual is than the average public/private school individual is staggering- both personally and intellectually. The tired old adage that public school is important because it teaches kids to socialize is garbage. Why learn to socialize with people who, like you, are not even mature enough to handle it? especially when those peoples dispositions, including yours, will be radically different (for the better) a few years after the fact anyhow.