Just not literacy literacy classes.
You’re getting downvoted but my friend is a 5th grade school teacher in California and confirmed to me that for years now when her students get to 5th grade they can’t read or even sound out basic words and she’s required to keep passing them to middle school.
Teachers all over the US are saying kids can’t read. Combined with the fact that teachers have to strictly follow their curriculums which are not designed for these kids, that means American kids will continue to not develop literacy skills. IMO it’s a valid question to ask: what are we doing about that?
Well, I’ve called for it on here. Now this’ll put it to the test – we’ll see how Californian students perform before-and-after the introduction of the classes and relative to states that don’t make it part of their core curriculum.
I hope this works.
Skimming their material, looks like it also deals with countering some sales tactics and the like, like companies aiming to exploit fear-of-missing-out to sell product.
Media needs to juxtapose this news with the latest from Oklahoma requiring teaching Bible in public schools
Don’t embarrass Oklahoma. They’ve really got nothing going on.
Fuck the south. Oklahoma is honorarily southern for this dumb shit.
I did that in my high school economics class. I picked a bunch of finance stocks, including Bear Stearns. Then 2008 happened. All I learned was that if you pick individual stocks, you get fucked. For individual investors, the stock market is a scam.
Not so much for stocks, I mean like a better UI spreadsheet client that allows them to go to any period and see ledgers that are intuitively rendered and that lets them sort of experiment with the numbers so they can learn to maneuver things better. Like all their accounts, bills/recurring, paycheques, purchases. All rendered and projected or archived for easy traversal
Its like GTD: get everything out and externalized in an independant system or locus of reference and it takes most of the anxiety and human error out of it
I remember my financial literary class. It was part of Home Ec. I think it was one class where we learned how to fill out checks.
