Things they should teach you in school

[Tuerto]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Why you should never vote Tory.

[The Bloop]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

How much a £200k house will actually cost you over a 25year mortgage.
How to cook cheap healthy meals
Why a diet of fast food and High caffeine/high sugar drinks and protein shakes will mean that there's no point saving for a pension.
Why it's never too early to start a personal pension
The importance of a decent credit rating and how to get one.

[dembethewarrior]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

How much energy costs , an understanding of terms such as kwh.

Been so many quotes from people on the news along the lines of : I'm not putting the lights on because of the energy price rise. I'm boiling the kettle to fill the bath because the gas has gone up, I'm using candles instead of electric etc etc.

A basic understanding around the fact that modern light bulbs cost virtually nothing to power, cheaper to heat water with gas than electric kettle etc, would make a difference to some of these people.

Honestly think there are people worried about their energy bills so skimping on silly things like lights, while not realising that their tumble dryer is costing more in a week than lighting their house would for a year !

Worked at British Gas years ago and I'm pretty sure they said then it's cheaper to leave the lights on than turn them on and off all day.

Boiling the kettle uses quite a lot of energy as well..

[dembethewarrior]

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Totally agree with the stuff relating to personal finances.

Also agree with changing a tyre, but I'd extend it out to basic car and bicycle maintenance. Stuff like checking fluid levels, tyre tread depth and a couple of other simple inspection/maintenance tasks.

I'll add outdoors/geography skills to the list. World geography, basic navigation, basic survival skills etc. The forest schools programme sounds great but as far as I'm aware it's aimed more at younger ones? Be great to carry that stuff right through to 16-18.

Thisnos a good post

Add basic survival knowledge as well.

[RichardM]

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I'd have loved car maintenance and personal finance in school.

I did a CSE in car mechanics at a local tech instead of a more academic O level.

[splott parker]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Bring in teachers from various countries to give history lessons from their perspective rather than the one eyed ‘Britain is always right’ curriculum. I don’t know If things have changed now but it was very much English history when I was at school, would have loved to learnt more about Welsh history.

[dembethewarrior]

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How hard it is to conceive a baby, in fact it’s very unlikely you’ll get pregnant after a one off.

Trying for a baby was a ****ing nightmare and so worrying as the months went on, all because you’re misled in school.

Slept with some women multiple times, never got them pregnant. My daughters mum I went with once, pissed as a fart.

Point being, people aren't misled as it can happen, just unfortunately not in all cases where people would like

[dembethewarrior]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Bring in teachers from various countries to give history lessons from their perspective rather than the one eyed ‘Britain is always right’ curriculum. I don’t know If things have changed now but it was very much English history when I was at school, would have loved to learnt more about Welsh history.

Teach kids to looknforward not backwards.

I understand to a degree history has a part in education but where does it stop? How much do they *need* to know?

It's part of the problem with education for me. Overloading kids with piles of shit they don't really need to know that won't be useful later in life unless they're at a pub quiz.

[OurManFlint II]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Getting a mortgage is easy - just cancel Netflix and your morning coffee from Starbucks

[tforturton]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Judging by some of the youngsters starting in my office, they should be teaching them how to write properly, and how to spell. Guess you don't need it, when you're on a computer all day.

Anyway, most of things that have been mentioned are supposed to be included on the curriculum under Social Studies. However, very few people take this subject, as it's often considered 'only for thickos', and also because it often clashes with other more important subjects.

[splott parker]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Teach kids to looknforward not backwards.

I understand to a degree history has a part in education but where does it stop? How much do they *need* to know?

It's part of the problem with education for me. Overloading kids with piles of shit they don't really need to know that won't be useful later in life unless they're at a pub quiz.

Events in history shaped the world we live in today, I do think it’s an important subject. It is quite useful in later life to have the knowledge that ‘history does repeat itself’ and if it’s for the worse knowing that your vote, your actions etc could go a bit of a way to preventing it.

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Thinly veiled I've got super sperm post IMO

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[Canton Kev]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Basic DIY stuff and minor electronics. A girl I knew in work made it to 22 and didn’t know how to change a fuse.

Personal finance instead of some of the useless maths we learnt. Differentiation from first principles, Circle Theorems, etc.

[dembethewarrior]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Events in history shaped the world we live in today, I do think it’s an important subject. It is quite useful in later life to have the knowledge that ‘history does repeat itself’ and if it’s for the worse knowing that your vote, your actions etc could go a bit of a way to preventing it.

Like I said, to a degree.

[splott parker]

Re: Things they should teach you in school

Basic DIY stuff and minor electronics. A girl I knew in work made it to 22 and didn’t know how to change a fuse.

Personal finance instead of some of the useless maths we learnt. Differentiation from first principles, Circle Theorems, etc.

On the ‘theorems’ note, me and friends were having a chat about school a while back and someone said what use was Pythagoras’ theorem. They were quite surprised when I told them that I use it at least once a week at work, I told them to look around them, every square corner of the building we were in owed it’s accuracy to 3,4,5. It’s a Godsend in construction, also the formulae for areas of circles come into to play when working out quantities. Set out and built an elliptical (oval) area in a garden a few years back, using maths resulted in a perfect shape. But the main one is our old mate Pythagoras, he saved a lot of head scratching.