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Hey Pandas, What Is One Thing You Wish You Would Have Learned In High School? (Closed)
We all know that our schools don't always teach us what we need to be an adult. What are some things that you wish kids would learn?
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#1
How to manage money; taxes, savings, retirement, vacation and emergency funds. Age creeps up faster than you think. Don't get close to retirement and then realize you have to couch surf because you didn't put enough away for your golden age. In America, social security isn't going to meet your rent/mortgage. Buy memories and not things.
Final score:
6points
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#2
tax declaration. I work full time, so I have to pay taxes and I have no idea how that s**t works
Final score:
4points
#3
How to deal with mental illness and the side-effects of psychiatric drugs.
Final score:
4points
Ian Bartels 4 years ago
That is a good one! I can say that at our high school, we are starting to have more discussions and lessons with students about mental health.
#4
All about social anxiety. It would have changed my adult life completely.
Final score:
3points
Li Ha (Submission author) 4 years ago
That paying someone to grow crops just to feed animals, raise animals and kill animals is bad for the environment, cruel to the animal, and unhealthy for people. That unless you kill the animal yourself, the meat is not halal
#5
More emphasis on recent world history.
Final score:
3points
#6
It's easier to do the work when it's assigned, than try to catch up later.
Final score:
2points
#7
Self-defense, honestly a blue belt in BJJ (2 years or so) and basic stand up trainging. Would help out a lot of girls and guys.
Final score:
2points
#8
That I could have gotten my GED at sixteen and gotten out of high school two years earlier.
Final score:
2points
#9
Disclaimer: I am still in HS but this would be relevant in middle school too.
How to study! Telling students to cram stuff into their brain with only flashcards over and over doesn't really help that much. In my experience teachers usually don't give study tips other than "use flashcards and read your notes", which can be useful to some but there are often better solutions. Personally I use flashcards but with spaced repetition, instead of simply repeatedly quizzing myself with the exact same set of cards very often. I also write quizzes and sometimes do the same with friends. Usually the act of writing out the quiz is enough for me to remember, not doing the actual quiz.
Also, time management! A lot of my fellow students have a hard time managing their schedules with extra classes and trying to fit in homework/studying.
Final score:
2points
YosemiteCat 4 years ago
My school had a five week course on this, sorry about your bad experience
#10
How to solve problems by evaluating what materials you have, people you can work with, your timelines, and your budgets. And no looking it up on Google. Decision-making skills are something I have had to teach a lot of people I trained at my job. A few of them told me that later it helped them have an edge up on job interviews.
Final score:
2points
#11
How much work politics there are and how to handle it. Schmooze the boss and they think you're a better worker.
Final score:
1point
#12
I wish I had learned to be more outgoing... to take the chances that I feared taking... that all those girls (I went to a private catholic prep school) who were living by their own rules weren't going to get what was coming to them. If you want something, go for it. It's not going to be handed to you. I always followed the rules and now I absolutely regret it.
Final score:
1point
#13
Im in middle school... i wish that i could learn how to school when i get to high school
Final score:
1point
#15
I would like to see High schools actually teach skills to their students that don't leave them stranded on the retail career track. Especially since service computers are starting to take over those jobs in a big way, modern high schools are teaching kids to build wagons as a career in the age of spaceships.
Final score:
1point
#17
I wish I had learned how to learn? Once I figured out my method of learning I started getting all A's and I actually enjoyed learning.
Final score:
0points
What do you think ?
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