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Nutrition is a huge problem. Nobody talks to us in school about what's okay to put in your body and what isn't. You have girls eating two bags of hot cheetos for breakfast, literally on a weekly basis.
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They probably know it's bad just don't care, and there are courses that cater to health and nutrition if people choose to take them.
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Yea, people know what's unhealthy. Nobody eats a bag of cheetos thinking they're eating healthy. They make their choice to eat what they wish.
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All of those are easy to learn on your own, teens (especially 17+) should be taking responsibility and teaching them selves these things instead of complaining it's not taught in high school (which it is if you choose to take those courses).
Also, for Canada, when tax forms are sent out it includes a booklet that fully details what to do and explains it all not sure what U.S is like.
Probably the biggest problem is teenagers expecting their hand to be held all through life and a lot of them lack initiative, high school was also relatively easy (in Canada at least) to where people who barely attend are given free passes and graduated without learning anything.
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Cooking, doing taxes, etc. are things parents should be teaching their kids. But yea, I actually took 2 classes that taught me how to cook (I suck at it) and how to do taxes. Both were a waste of my time and just easy A classes.
U.S. taxes are pretty easy for young people. If you're wealthy and invest your money in stocks and other options, then taxes can be pretty difficult. Even then, there's apps that help with taxes for a really cheap price.
The issue I have with public education is that Elementary school is giving you the basic tools you need in life for any field you go into. Elementary teaches you all you need to know in your K-12 education experience. Jr. High for me was just a jab at making everyone take tons of electives like music, woodshop, etc. High school is just 4 years of Jeopardy trivia being taught to people. Hardly anything in high school is valuable in my opinion. I memorized things, not learned them. High school should focus a lot more on narrowing people's fields down. It's supposed to prepare you for college but it doesn't at all. They should have special fields that people can choose to go into, and decrease the number of general requirements so you're not taking science, math, history, english, etc. for every field.