what do you wish schools teach?

[Phil]

Lifeskills seriously needs to be taught. Things like paying a bill etc. I had no idea on any of that until I moved out in September and I'm 21!

[Alkaz]

I wish schools taught about real life in PSHE and lessons like that. People should be more prepared for the real world or a world at university. It's so much different than how you envision it.

[-:Undertaker:-]

A lot of people keep commenting on here that schools should teach 'life skills'........ the clue is in the name. Life skills can't be 'taught' in a classroom.

[Alkaz]

A lot of people keep commenting on here that schools should teach 'life skills'........ the clue is in the name. Life skills can't be 'taught' in a classroom.

Obviously you can't teach things like that. Young kids these days seem to have next to no common sense, if you can give them some information about ''life'' and its repercussions then at it will be giving them some kind of a head start. Most kids don't even realise that you have to pay for a TV licence and many other things like that which people are oblivious to can be 'taught'.

[Matt]

I'd definitely agree with wanting to see schools teaching you life skills.

How a mortgage works, how to sort out superannuation, how to manage money, how to manage your work load with life in general, how to write a CV/Resume, all of those kinds of things.

[welshcake]

Habbo studies and rare values

I agree with this.
Also how to host good events on the internet.

[Showder]

For my school I really hope they introduce Film/TV studies to our curriculum, followed by Drama (I was kind of upset they didn't have this class in this school, ngl).

[dbgtz]

Not sure if this is exactly what you're asking but I wish, when I was in school, they would have taught two things. One being the purpose of things you do, why do I need to know trig identities, what are scientific theories used for etc. A lot of people used to complain about this and it would be nice to know exactly what I was being taught could be used for beyond the obvious. Secondly, and this may not really answer the question, but I'd have liked to have seen a branch out from the given curriculum. There's so much focus on exams and assessments it pretty much killed any interest I had in some subjects since every other lesson was some kind of test. I guess these two kind of link in the sense that, if you show people what is beyond the exam they may well pay more interest and just do better in general.

[Kardan]

Just so you know, schools actually are starting to do these 'life skills' lessons these days - they just didn't have them back in our day.

[Inseriousity.]

yeah they did, I learnt all that sort of stuff in PSHE... well til the teacher got bored and we just watched Friends for the rest of the term lol.
It's stupid that people think schools need to teach everything like that anyway. Some lessons it shouldn't be a school's job to teach. There are parents + life experience.

I've always wanted to learn first aid and sign language but never got round to it (although again I don't think a school curriculum can fit everything in).