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