12-02-2016, 09:51 AM
(12-01-2016, 03:02 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: 13. We all seem to agree that some more mandatory classes should be required such as
Finance (balancing checkbook/savings etc)
Basic Cooking (learn how to make more than roman noodles)
Other possibilities: Auto Basic Maintenance, Introduction to Guns? Any other suggestions?
My finance requirement wasn't even really for the kids sake, but for the country. We caused the financial meltdown for a multitude of reasons, but the fact a large number of people didn't realize what you are approved for and what you can afford are vastly different things didn't help. I don't want to start down the road of requirements in cooking, auto, guns, etc. because hours are limited to teach as is, but financial responsibility seems like something that we need as a country to protects us all down the road.
Let them go out to eat, let them take their car to a mechanic, but when they go to get a mortgage and the broker is actually ***** them they need to realize that.
As for a lot of your other points, lots of ideas that will require a ton of money. The idea of a cop at every school sounds nice but that will be a MASSIVE expense. Putting it in perspective there are over 100k schools in the U.S. and roughly 50k have full time SROs right now. To outfit the other half at a conservative rate of 50k a year your talking about $2.5 BILLION to make this one item alone happen.
