http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/03/23/3-subjects-schools-could-teach-to-improve-the-world/
I can also think of practical skills kids aren't taught, like
1. how to open a checking account and maintain it.
2. understand how contracts work.
3. what's a budget and why do you need one?
4. how to rent an apartment or home, what leases mean, and why rent is your first obligation...above your iphones and social lives.
5. mandatory work in a daycare for a while and see what having children is like, so that lack of knowledge will not continue to create children their parents are not ready to care for...emotionally, spiritually, financially, physically.
6. how welfare is a rigged-to-fail system and why it is not the answer to life's problems.
7. Truth about government, and instruction in how to be an intelligent voter.
Etc.
Most kids are just thrown to the wolves when they graduate high school, or thrown to college with a carte blanche card to party for four+ years.
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Agree Cheryl. I just got taken advantage of a border line sociopath who I thought was a friend for 22 years.
Unfortunately it involves a horse which I probably will never see again. :(
A sociopath is often well liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly.
I think, also, another area of information is learning about different types of psychiactric/psychological dysfunctions so a young person can avoid any entanglements with people like sociopaths, narcissists, etc.
What also needs to be taught big time is a subject on human relationships. How to treat each other in human relationships (with love). I think the divorce rate would be much lower if people knew more about behavior, etc. Also what needs to be taught is compassion for all life, caring about the earth, etc. etc. etc. There is so much that is over looked in the school system.