Things they should teach you in school

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inspired by some posts in the basic income thread

- how to change a tyre

- how to get a mortgage

- how best to get your deposit back from your landlord at the end of a rental period

>Landlord? Don't pay the last month's rent!

[light up the darkness]

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To set realistic expectations.

I was a member of an Apprenticeship Trust for Worcestershire and the biggest problem by far was the expectations given to the kids by the schools. I am a member of the bring back Polytechnics fan club.

The loss of Glamorgan Poly for a struggling university was an absolute tragedy for South Wales in particular.

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Sorry I meant the Polytechnic of Wales in Pontypridd

[Barmy]

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Teach them to pull up their pants and put their hat on straight.:facepalm:

[BLUETIT]

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Don’t listen to weather forecasts

[GL1Blue]

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It's a really good question. My view and that of many tech people are that we're so reliant on smart technology that the languages used to code them need to be 'spoken' fluently. Our reliance on the tech also means reliance on a shrinking number of both people and corporations. Asia is leading the way in this and in the west, we're actually illiterate regarding technology by comparison.

Don't forget, self-driving smart cars are the future. They'll be 'fixed' with a laptop. But they'll be 'designed' by coders too. Including the robotics used to manufacture them.

We teach reading and writing but don't expect everyone to go on and use those skills to the highest level. The guy who made the Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton is a Welshman born in Pontypool, and his philosophy about coding and getting kids to learn is brilliant stuff and worth reading. I don't have time to post the articles now but if you follow up from the wiki page you'll find plenty written by him.

But you're right, you'd only need to know the basics to operate at the simplest level. It's really down to an over-dependence on a small number of coders in relation to the amount of tech we use.

It's actually scary how badly computer technology and languages are taught in UK schools compared to other countries.

Totally agree but when Universities are still teach java for computer science degrees something is wrong somewhere!

In terms of coding it teaches kids an approach to problem solving, how to do things in a logical order and how to test to prove an end goal is met.

[poc]

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Should've gone to a Catholic School. Sex Education was teaught by Nuns and mad R.E Teachers. Sex was only to be performed to conceive a child in a married relationship. If you wanted three kids and hit the jackpot on each occasion, then that would be it, three rounds of fun for an entire marriage.

dont get on the wrong side of the nuns :hehe:

[blue matt]

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:hehe:

Don’t listen to weather forecasts

:hehe::hehe:

[blue matt]

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Coding. All the tech being used has to be coded. There is still a tiny percentage of the world's population with enough coding knowledge in all the necessary languages needed (including some major tech running older languages). I know they teach 'some' but it should be like being able to read and write properly, it's that important.

Edit: ask a kid how a smartphone works? What programming language does it use? How is it made?

Some are taught coding, in primary schools they use " python for kids " , it progresses in secondary schools

The various " pi " projects are great, astro pi run by the European space agency, kids can write code to run on the ISS and get the results back, the more advanced schools ( who partner ESA ) can really get involved, its a great project and really engages the kids

[splott parker]

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dont get on the wrong side of the nuns :hehe:

Don’t get underside of the brothers!

[Doucas]

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How corrupt the media and government are..

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How corrupt the media and government are..

Can we try to have just one thread not become a political argument?

[poc]

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Don’t get underside of the brothers!

:hehe:

the nuns in mostyn were lethal, sludge knows all about them :facepalm:

[Tuerto]

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You must have done a bit of d.i.y. Kev. Or even putting a table in a room and having it ‘square’ with the wall, you’re unknowingly using it then. I do like maths though, theorems fascinate me how they solve things.....bit geekish I know, sorry:hehe:

Who squares a free standing table with a wall? Margins splotty, margins!

[maccydee01]

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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.

Don’t teach them that.