Also, wouldn't be the worst thing to teach them some financial skills, how to avoid debt, track expenses, manage money. Of course much of this will change when this system collapses. There is so much fluff in school schedules these days there is certainly room for VOTEC classes, and get rid of the nonsense classes as well.
Learn REAL (non woke) Sex Ed to understand and prevent pregnancy and disease, learn impulse control, abstinence and setting goals for the future in lieu of instant gratification.
HIGHSCHOOL YEARS 1-3:
The first 3 years of High School should focus on Reading, Writing and Arithmetic and then as many of the extra curricular trades and training programs as one can fit in.
HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR YEAR:
Senior year should include additional 'Life Skills' which must include: money managing, prep and practice interviewing for a job, resume writing, understanding proper etiquette, manners, courtesy and protocol.
A final course on 'How to wash and iron your clothes', preparing healthy meals for cheap and proper personal hygiene should be in there, too.
I learned to sew very well in the 7th grade via the school's Home Ec classes. I ended up sewing several dresses, pants and shorts outfits for myself in high school that fit me like a glove, including my prom dresses. I ended up using my sewing skills many times over the years.
Please begin teaching Latin early at first grade along with reading and writing. It's much easier to learn at this young age and then people would easily pick up other Romance languages; French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, etc. Latin gives you the root word foundation.
Then adding to everything mentioned here I would love to see Craft Guilds created like UK and Europe used to have: Stone Masons, Stained Glass, Wood Carvers, Painters, Sculptors, etc. There would be a lifetime of learning and passing down knowledge through the members of the Guild. We could have beautiful buildings again! ✨
One of my kids got a classical education at a charter school. That school had the only perfect SAT scores in the state. 7 times now amd the highest average SAT scores in the northwest for students that attended for all 13 years. The public system.hates them.
If we stop poisoning our children, and holding back smatter children for imbeciles, most current high school content used to be taught by early junior high. Why waste those prime formative years continuing to do rote irrelevant nonsense?
“Calculus is the pinnacle of learning!” Almost nobody needs it, and it can be instantly, more than done by computers now, probably even known when it’s needed to be done. Time wasted.
What’s gonna be wild is when we re-unleash civics and how to properly follow and use the law, and how the classical usages will intertwine with new technical realities - which is both tbd, and stuff that a lot of people will need to know as newly freed men.
Rote irrelevant nonsense is part of the design of government indoctrination daycare centers. They were designed to produce factory workers, not entrepreneurs, to replace family and church with government and state, to prepare compliant and obedient workers used to repetitive meaningless tasks, ready for the "inevitable" consolidation with communism.
It will have to be demolished and reconstructed to produce civic-minded Americans who are ready to make their own way and maintain an independent country, free from globalism and deep state corruption.
Learning math teaches people how to think. Logic and math are intricately intertwined. One of my favorite classes ever was called Mathematics and Logic: From Euclid to Modern Geometry.
“Calculus is the pinnacle of learning!” Almost nobody needs it, and it can be instantly, more than done by computers now, probably even known when it’s needed to be done. Time wasted.
This is an ignorant statement. You sound like someone who didnt want to invest the brain power required to learn math. Besides Civics, math is our most important foundational science. Sorry, call em like I see em.
This is the course description for Mathematics and Logic:
Today more than ever we need logic and sound reasoning in defense of truth. And one of the best ways to develop these skills is through the study of Euclidean Geometry.
For more than 2,300 years, Euclid’s Elements has provided the foundation for countless students to learn how to reason with precision and pursue knowledge in all fields of learning. This classic text of Western civilization provides profound tools to distinguish truth from error by means of self-evident principles.
In this course, you will study the transformation of mathematics by the ancient Greeks, discover the fundamentals of logic and deductive reasoning, examine the central proofs of Euclid, learn about the birth of modern geometry, and much more.
I said calculus, specifically, and was not trying to say it’s useless, by any means, but that it’s overvalued with respect to how it’s perceived within how it’s taught. There are absolutely a ton of things we wouldn’t have today without it. Said nothing of math in general, which is a critical life skill, as is logic, and I own a copy of Euclid’s Elements myself. My choice of tone was not the best, I’ll grant you. It is a result of a derisive attitude I have toward mindsets like, “I don’t understand it, therefore it must be important.”
If someone wants to start showing applicability for it in more common use cases, I’d be all ears, because I actually enjoy the subject, though I never use it. It’s lack of usefulness does make it overvalued for me, as a non-engineer/statistician who could easily “plug and chug” if a use case did ever show up (which I would have to at this point).
As is, a lot of the other subjects mentioned in this thread that are entirely neglected, do have much more value, because “applicability”, particularly in widespread societal use, is the key valuation metric of what I was getting at, and I’m a very big fan of the 80/20 rule.
I very honestly think a lot of the subjects we cover here on a regular basis are more important than calculus as well. None of that is to say that it doesn’t have its place, or is without any merit within its spheres of applicability.
This is an ignorant statement. You sound like someone who didnt want to invest the brain power required to learn math.
I was just shy of a minor, but use basically nothing past algebra, and occasionally some probability, and a fair amount of statistics (though often also as P&C). My other comment might better explain what i was trying to get at. Doesn’t mean I’m right, but it is my lived reality.
You can also understand why I would say “time wasted” when I spent.. probably 3-5 years taking mid-advanced math subjects and my only resulting purpose for them was to get a piece of paper.
IT'S PART OF THE DESIGN, not sure why that was unclear. They've been perfecting the model for generations and have become very good at it. I'm in a place trying to hire useful graduates and it's impossible. They ALL need training in BASICS. And they're positively insulted when told.
It's not my painting, it's plain observation. I'm a straight a graduate from many years ago and realized I was useless and most of what I was taught was purposely useless if not outright wrong.
That was part of Home Economics when I went to school. We were basic bookkeeping by the time we were sophomores in high school. Home Ec started in 7th grade and was an available elective in high school. Of course, there was no crypto or multiple credit cards like today. We created a budget and learned to reconcile a checkbook with a bank statement. We learned to cook and to sew. We also had wood shop, welding, automotive shop and some other things.
Also, wouldn't be the worst thing to teach them some financial skills, how to avoid debt, track expenses, manage money. Of course much of this will change when this system collapses. There is so much fluff in school schedules these days there is certainly room for VOTEC classes, and get rid of the nonsense classes as well.
MIDDLE SCHOOL START THIS:
Learn REAL (non woke) Sex Ed to understand and prevent pregnancy and disease, learn impulse control, abstinence and setting goals for the future in lieu of instant gratification.
HIGHSCHOOL YEARS 1-3:
The first 3 years of High School should focus on Reading, Writing and Arithmetic and then as many of the extra curricular trades and training programs as one can fit in.
HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR YEAR:
Senior year should include additional 'Life Skills' which must include: money managing, prep and practice interviewing for a job, resume writing, understanding proper etiquette, manners, courtesy and protocol.
A final course on 'How to wash and iron your clothes', preparing healthy meals for cheap and proper personal hygiene should be in there, too.
Once the states take back control of education, New programs will be introduced. Yours is a good start.
home economics
This was a thing
I took home ec classes. They also had shop classes. It was real.
I learned to sew very well in the 7th grade via the school's Home Ec classes. I ended up sewing several dresses, pants and shorts outfits for myself in high school that fit me like a glove, including my prom dresses. I ended up using my sewing skills many times over the years.
It has been a very valuable skill.
I'm a parachute rigger. I have built several parachutes ----- lots of sewing.
Sewing clothes (making them look professional) is hard. I did make a skydiving suit once ---- looked OK from a distance,
Bring back gun safety.
Exactly, demystify guns will go a long way to stop the spread of fear mongering involving their use
Please begin teaching Latin early at first grade along with reading and writing. It's much easier to learn at this young age and then people would easily pick up other Romance languages; French, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, etc. Latin gives you the root word foundation.
Then adding to everything mentioned here I would love to see Craft Guilds created like UK and Europe used to have: Stone Masons, Stained Glass, Wood Carvers, Painters, Sculptors, etc. There would be a lifetime of learning and passing down knowledge through the members of the Guild. We could have beautiful buildings again! ✨
One of my kids got a classical education at a charter school. That school had the only perfect SAT scores in the state. 7 times now amd the highest average SAT scores in the northwest for students that attended for all 13 years. The public system.hates them.
Shoot. Why wait to high school for all that?
If we stop poisoning our children, and holding back smatter children for imbeciles, most current high school content used to be taught by early junior high. Why waste those prime formative years continuing to do rote irrelevant nonsense?
“Calculus is the pinnacle of learning!” Almost nobody needs it, and it can be instantly, more than done by computers now, probably even known when it’s needed to be done. Time wasted.
What’s gonna be wild is when we re-unleash civics and how to properly follow and use the law, and how the classical usages will intertwine with new technical realities - which is both tbd, and stuff that a lot of people will need to know as newly freed men.
Rote irrelevant nonsense is part of the design of government indoctrination daycare centers. They were designed to produce factory workers, not entrepreneurs, to replace family and church with government and state, to prepare compliant and obedient workers used to repetitive meaningless tasks, ready for the "inevitable" consolidation with communism.
It will have to be demolished and reconstructed to produce civic-minded Americans who are ready to make their own way and maintain an independent country, free from globalism and deep state corruption.
Learning math teaches people how to think. Logic and math are intricately intertwined. One of my favorite classes ever was called Mathematics and Logic: From Euclid to Modern Geometry.
This is an ignorant statement. You sound like someone who didnt want to invest the brain power required to learn math. Besides Civics, math is our most important foundational science. Sorry, call em like I see em.
This is the course description for Mathematics and Logic:
I said calculus, specifically, and was not trying to say it’s useless, by any means, but that it’s overvalued with respect to how it’s perceived within how it’s taught. There are absolutely a ton of things we wouldn’t have today without it. Said nothing of math in general, which is a critical life skill, as is logic, and I own a copy of Euclid’s Elements myself. My choice of tone was not the best, I’ll grant you. It is a result of a derisive attitude I have toward mindsets like, “I don’t understand it, therefore it must be important.”
If someone wants to start showing applicability for it in more common use cases, I’d be all ears, because I actually enjoy the subject, though I never use it. It’s lack of usefulness does make it overvalued for me, as a non-engineer/statistician who could easily “plug and chug” if a use case did ever show up (which I would have to at this point).
As is, a lot of the other subjects mentioned in this thread that are entirely neglected, do have much more value, because “applicability”, particularly in widespread societal use, is the key valuation metric of what I was getting at, and I’m a very big fan of the 80/20 rule.
I very honestly think a lot of the subjects we cover here on a regular basis are more important than calculus as well. None of that is to say that it doesn’t have its place, or is without any merit within its spheres of applicability.
I was just shy of a minor, but use basically nothing past algebra, and occasionally some probability, and a fair amount of statistics (though often also as P&C). My other comment might better explain what i was trying to get at. Doesn’t mean I’m right, but it is my lived reality.
You can also understand why I would say “time wasted” when I spent.. probably 3-5 years taking mid-advanced math subjects and my only resulting purpose for them was to get a piece of paper.
Been saying this since the 80's when Academia decided, ON PURPOSE, to tell all the NON-Straight A students..."you're on your own".
Straight a students are simply obedient factory workers. It's part of the design, they don't want creators or makers or individualists.
Painting with a very broad brush here. Havent we learned from the leftists not to do this?
IT'S PART OF THE DESIGN, not sure why that was unclear. They've been perfecting the model for generations and have become very good at it. I'm in a place trying to hire useful graduates and it's impossible. They ALL need training in BASICS. And they're positively insulted when told.
It's not my painting, it's plain observation. I'm a straight a graduate from many years ago and realized I was useless and most of what I was taught was purposely useless if not outright wrong.
That was part of Home Economics when I went to school. We were basic bookkeeping by the time we were sophomores in high school. Home Ec started in 7th grade and was an available elective in high school. Of course, there was no crypto or multiple credit cards like today. We created a budget and learned to reconcile a checkbook with a bank statement. We learned to cook and to sew. We also had wood shop, welding, automotive shop and some other things.