FACTS!

A-hole teacher.

Can we make this go much higher in the list please?

I hate walking out of the movie theater and seeing so much trash left behind. my husband tends to do that too, so I make sure to loudly say "we ate this, it's our responsibility to take it to the trash. What kind of human doesn't clean up after themselves???" And people around just walk look away and walk out faster XD

I totally agree it pushes harmful things on the children making them think they have to starting dating any friend that’s the opposite gender of them.

Whoever came up with that one.... Everyone should be able to show their emotions. That f*cking macho culture is just so sad... Men are still men, even when they show their tears. No shame in crying.

People of authority aren't always right or safe, so it's not necessarily a bad thing to question it.

Or even worse, teaching kids that abusive relationships are not only ok but possibly "better" than non abusive ones.

Life is often unfair, unkind or unequal. Children need to learn that and how to cushion the disappointments.

I developped severe digestive issues because of this. I've always been tiny. When I wasn't able to finish my plate, my parents insisted I had to eat all the meat at least (no, not the veggies, the meat!) Which happened every day, so I ended up eating mostly meat and too much of it. I was constipated, bloated and nauseated all the time. And it didn't make me any bigger.

This is very accurate; I was able to coast in the lower grades and do well, but I never actually learned how to study, organize my work and retain information, it was a huge struggle in high school.

I agree with this. College costs so damn much and it seems most jobs available afterwards dont pay enough to cover the cost of the education that's required.

I have told all my kids that they can ( if they choose) take a break between graduating and university to try to figure out what they want to do etc. No point in jumping into university if you have no idea why… just leads to frustration and student debt!!

I used to work at showroom that sold high-end vanities, sinks, faucets, toilets etc. If you wanted to be in commission-based sales, they required a bachelors degree....to sell toilets!!!

Not so much that everyone should go to college, but rather that only college graduates deserve respect.

I don’t think this is the current mindset… at least not in the school districts I work in. The previous high school I taught at was an academies school… they offered industry standard certifications that students could earn BEFORE graduation, making it easier for them to obtain jobs straight out of high school.

I agree. However, I believe that everyone should have the opportunity to attend post-secondary education (without finances being such a burden).

Not sure I completely understand the statement. In Canada, we have university, college, and trade schools. Everyone should do something after high-school. Any type of post-secondary education is important.

THIS mentality only came about in the last 40 years or so in the US. Right about the same time that costs skyrocketed. It was, imo,a marketing scheme to benefit colleges. Declare that everyone is entitled to college and not going is somehow a violation of your rights.

Both of my parents have phDs but always said that I didn't have to go to college if I didn't want to. I decided to do when I got a scholarship for running. But thank you mom and dad for giving me options

We still need garbagemen and janitors and mechanics, etc. College is definitely NOT for everyone.

To be a waiter or to work in a cafeteria is mandatory to have a technical. Honestly to study or not to study turns out to be bad

Wish I had gone to HVAC training after high school.

I would up vote this 50 times if I could.

And yet it is taught that the road to wealth is through college.

I quit school @ 15. Got a job pumping gas. Got my mechanics license @ 20. I'm now 65, retired, completely debt free. A home and a cottage and well over 7 figures in cash and investments. "Better work hard or you might as well quit "

Didn’t help Trump

By the numbers, public education in America has failed in so many ways that listing the symptoms only serves to promote the disease. Like so many of our problems, our apathy and tunnel vision combine to preclude real progress. More efficiently using 19th century methods to render students sufficiently submissive and incurious to serve as serfs under corporate neofeudalism will only improve the lot of the predator parasite class. ¶ Having hovered near the bottom for years, during the A**s administration, America’s public K-12 system fell of the list of the world’s top 20. This is a large part of why the US is routinely considered one of the worst rich nations in which to raise a child. ¶ Our problems run much deeper than the comic social pretensions of those who’re prejudiced against manual labor.

Not everyone is college material or want to go. Some kids love working with their hands, ie., cars, wood, metal, etc., SKILLS that require hands on training like apprenticeships. They need to bring back shops in high.schools. the world needs plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers, mechanics, etc. All meaningful work.

Not everyone is “made” for college. And life’s circumstances are all not learned in college either.

I don’t know if that’s where the myth originated but it is more certainly a myth. Some kids just aren’t made for college and put themselves in severe debt (America) taking a semester or two to figure that out.

Yup. College is good, but it's not all. Many college graduate never able to find job nor make their own business

Because their funding for the next year is based on how many start college after graduation this year. Talk to your state representative in Congress.

Or just basing a child's worth on their grades. Many intelligent people suck at school and many less than intelligent people excel at it. Just care that your kid is a good person. Being kind is far more rare and important than being good at school. Adults need to learn this as well. Too many people pass on friendships or relationships with wonderful people because those people don't have what society expects them to have. I am unable to work unless working with someone I know and trust because I have severe depression and anxiety. A lifetime of abuse and neglect has made it to where I can't even handle the smallest amount of stress because it will cause me to have a breakdown. I go out of my way to be kind to people and do and give all I can to those I love, but they constantly choose toxic people who treat them horribly over me just because those people have jobs.

Even if you don't use your college degree professionally, going to University was one of the best experiences of my life. I studied in Toronto and got to meet people from all over the world. My mind expanded. I learned critical thinking. I think everybody should go to college. I just think it should be free. After being forced to study whatever I was told to study in high school, getting to choose what I wanted to study was very refreshing.

Oh, no, I believe it goes deeper and further back than school districts. My kids were born in the mid-80’s, when we were warned that by the time our kids were of age, a college education would cost north of $250,000, so we had better start saving NOW, like, as soon as they’re born. I remember thinking that this had to be some kind of joke, or a scare tactic to drum up business for those 529 college savings funds. It. Was. Ludicrous. A quarter of a million dollars! Unpossible! In 1979, I started at a four-year private university, and seem to remember that the bill for one year- tuition, fees, housing, and a meal plan was just under $12,000 (btw, according to online sources that track the history of college costs, what I remember IS in line with those sources). Current costs at my Alma Mater: $61,306, a 510% increase!!! Now, I’m no conspiracy theorist, but what else could this possibly be than a long-range plot by the banking industry to BURY current and future generations in debt…

1. Education is very important and parents should always encourage their kids to do better. 2. Not everyone has got the same skills, and some are far better with their hands. Which doesn't mean they cannot reach a comfortable life, because some manual jobs are highly in demand (hence wel payed). 3. So look at what your son or daughter is interested in. Help them find a study that will end them up being in a job they like AND a job with a future. P.S. when I was a kid we were "tested" and they asked us what we would like to do. I was passionate about animals and diving and documentaries, I also loved to draw and paint.... the center advised my parents to send me to a language/translation school with administrative jobs in prospect..... These centres s*cked big time at their évaluation and advice!!!

All you get at the end is a piece of worthless paper and a huge student loan debt that will drag you down for most of the rest of your life.

I work at a University with college students and I concur. At least 1/4 of these kids would be far better served by vocational school. It's much better to be a good, well paid welder than a poorly paid mediocre office grunt drowning in loan debt. And you can't outsource plumbing or car repairs, either.

Everyone should have at least some training in a marketable skill by the time they are 20. Periodt.

We should rephrase this to " everyone should persue career education ". That could mean anything including an apprentice program. No education is lost.

This is exactly what my father says! He's always going "if it isn't your business, don't do anything, it isn't your problem" When i told him that a guy that has a crush on my friend is getting REALLLLLYYYYY creepy and obsessive(taking pics randomly and sending messages saying how much he loves her and that she isn't grateful enough for him) and that i'm gonna tell him to f*ck off, he went "your friend is a coward, she should deal with it herself. Also, you should ask for PERMISSION when dealing with other people's problems" While i might half agree with the 2nd part, she is not a coward, but fighting back herself would put her in a lot of danger

I am glad that I was raised mostly by my mum. And she appreciated as a mother my sensitivity and feelings and made me who I am. <3

This.

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What awful parents teach this? When, how and why you apologise are one of the first things most toddlers get taught!

I saw a little girl in a grocery store I worked out, all excited about her day. She tried to tell her mother about it, and then her mother told her she didn't care and to shut up. I was absolutely dumbfounded. This little girl was like 4 years old! What a horrible mother!

I can see teaching your child to wave goodbye, but physical stuff..that's definitely messing with a child's boundaries.

I am so happy to be my age, wouldn't want to be young again in this world...

A person is not stupid if they continue to try and keep going!

This one is important, should be higher

My 1 yr old has boundaries and expresses them very well.

My Mom called me stupid all the time and my Dad said more than once that I didn't know what I was talking about. Then when it came to my grades in school, or picking out some of the easier classes for credits, I was told to do better and pick the harder classes because "you're smarter than that." It made my head spin and I'm still torn between thinking I'm stupid, and smart at the same time.

Upvoting for the religion bit!

That book always sort of bothered me for a reason I couldn't quite put my finger on... I got the whole "sharing is good" thing and the whole "don't be a self-centered show-off" thing, but it just kind of bothered me. Why couldn't the shiny fish just be happy with the fact he was shiny? Why couldn't the other fish like him until he gave away his scales? Existential crisis of an eight-year-old.