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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Education :/

My little sister is a 10th grader in high school and she's in the top 10% but when I asked her a multiplication problem she can't even answer it right :/

So like wtf are her math teacher's teaching her!?  

I think we can all agree the number one problem with kids nowadays is this.

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Posted by mithos

Probably the high education standards in some places (regarding High School) . My grandfather who was a chemist but is now retired said that back in his day half the stuff we learned now was taught in college. Even another teacher from a different difficulty level said said that whenever she walked in to some of our tests it would give her second hand stress (lol)

I have to agree with you,I never felt as if I learnt anything useful in highschool
Most of it I either already know or don't need it (for example learning the engineering process in tundra territories such as yukon)

School in my opinion should be giving teens practical information (cooking,paying taxes ect.) regardless of ones path in the future.  

Posted by CM

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.

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.

Posted by Sardon

School in my opinion should be giving teens practical information (cooking,paying taxes ect.) regardless of ones path in the future.

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.  

Posted by CM

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.

Posted by Colin

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.

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.

Posted by Colin

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.

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.  

Rap music turned my generation into a bunch of ghetto ass ******s who thinks everything thats not in their favor is sexist or racist.  

oh dont get me started..  

Posted by caseyw

baby boomers not retiring when they should so we can get jobs

That's not really a problem for teens though? You shouldn't need job before HS graduation, and if you did is it really going to be taken by 50 - 60 year olds?

Posted by SomeGuy

The housing crisis and climate change.

Again, not really what I'm looking for since teenagers are not buying houses.

Posted by 5hift

I'd say poor public education but that's more of a regional issue.

The public education in suburban areas is drastically different(better) than public education in inner-cities.

But other than that I'd have to agree with Clown.

People are ****ing spoiled as **** nowadays.

Kinda interested in this.

1. Getting mixed responses on education, which kinda goes along with the regional thing. But what would you say is generally awful about it?

2. What effect is this self righteousness having?

Posted by Eugeen

Depression

Posted by Red

mental health

Could anyone elaborate more on how big of a problem this is in schools? In my career field (not just younger people/teens) suicide and mental health is a massive issue, and I know people who have been effected by it first hand.

I figure this is probably one of the answers I'm looking for so would like to get more info on it.

Posted by CM

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.

Also interested in this, do they still teach the food pyramid or some other similar abomination? Also is that a problem of not having the recourses available to know what is healthy, not having the recourses to eat healthy, or lack of interest to be healthy?  

gonna take a shot in the dark and say drugs are a lot more common in high schools today than 15 years ago  

Posted by MrSimons

Kinda interested in this.

1. Getting mixed responses on education, which kinda goes along with the regional thing. But what would you say is generally awful about it?

2. What effect is this self righteousness having?

Well two things in particular strike me as the main problem with public education.

1. The kids. Travel to the inner cities and the kids there are ****ed up. Why they're like that is another topic for another day but just know if the kids aren't willing to accept education then what the **** is even the point of giving them education?

2. Funding. The overall facilities and faculty in inner cities are leagues below more wealthy areas. So to add to the already reluctant students, you have dilapidated conditions that make the learning experience even more unappealing.

As for the effect of self righteousness, I feel a lot of kids nowadays like to blame the problems on other things rather than make up for it themselves. Going back to the kids in inner cities; there are constantly opportunities to better the community that just aren't taken. Hell, they have free education, albeit not very good at times but if you try your hardest can make anything work.  

Posted by Crono

gonna take a shot in the dark and say drugs are a lot more common in high schools today than 15 years ago

Yeah and a lot more young drug dealers now

Live in a well off part of Canada and every high school party was filled with heroin, coke, LSD, etc

Biggest one is molly, most people see it as a light party drug so it's extremely common at parties (both pill form and snorting) but almost nobody realizes molly is one of unsafest drugs one could do (its a mix of random untested synthetic drugs most of the time) and often has meth mixed in as well, seen a lot of people get a really poor batch and screw them selves up.

There was never any drug prevention when I was in high school (graduated 2016) and administration seemed to be blind to the major drug issue in youth.  

Posted by Colin

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.

I agree, I'm sure they know that they know what they're putting in their bodies isn't good for them. But I don't see anyone trying to stop them, which is the issue. My school does not offer any nutrition classes, and I rarely hear them say anything about nutrition, which is honestly a huge deal considering there are at least 1000+ students at an average high school (mine included).

For breakfast my school offers chicken nuggets with tater tots, mini powdered donuts, cinnamon rolls, brownies, sugary cereals and coffee cake. All of this stuff probably isn't good for you, but kids eat it on a daily basis because there isn't anything else to eat. There are healthier options, like fruit and yogurt, but you have to pay for these things. The food options I mentioned earlier are free as long as you qualify for the lunch program at my school (which 90% of students qualify for). My school campus is also filled with vending machines stocked with chips, candies, cookies, and other bad stuff.

I think the main reason for this is the lack of options, which in my opinion many schools don't try to address. I'm sure buying a box of chips is cheaper than a box of fruit, and that's the main reason schools fail to offer healthier options. Why would someone pay for a cup of fruit when you could get a donut for free?

This is just from my experiences at my school, and I'm sure many other schools deal with these issues as well. My middle school was probably even worse. And nobody is addressing these issues. The last time I heard a school official mention something about promoting healthier eating was when I was in middle school.  

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