What new Lesson would you add to a School program ??

Question

A Lesson that would really help youngsters adjust well to modern Society, to improve their personalities and be better people - and not just people who give exams to pass the class.

Answer 1

Economics! They need to know how much their cell phones, DSL, Wii, and video games cost. They also need to learn that money from an ATM is not free.  A fun class would be graphic arts.  

Answer 2

Something that would make them think.  How old are these kids anyway?

We did a unit on sweatshops where we had to research the pros and cons of them (yes there are pros!) and one on what was considered pornography.  For that one different pictures were held up and we had to discuss if it was p**n or not and why.

They both got a great class discussion going and we had to reach for the answers since they weren't handed down exactly in the textbook.  But, that was college.  I don't think school age is appropriate for sweatshops and p**n lol.

Maybe a unit on the new controversy with Playstation and the metals they use turning into the new "blood diamonds"?  Younger kids have a hard time with abstract concepts.  They learn much better when you take old stuff like Machavelli and Plato and apply it to modern day situations.

Answer 3

Etiquette, Dancing, and Life guarding.

The first to teach them what not to do.

The second to teach them how to get along.

The third to show them even when they are all wet they can still be a live saver for others.

Answer 4

Just as someone else asked, how old are the 'youngsters?'  Any younger than 12 is almost a waste of time.  After 12 they seem to have a better concept of themselves in the world and not just themselves as the center of it all.

Right now I struggle with my son (almost 13) who is obsessed with Japanese Anime.  Although I like the fact that he reads like a fiend, I wish he would read something about the real world.

I remember when I was a child (maybe 9 or 10) and I came across a copy of TIME magazine reporting on the violence in Cambodia.  There was a photo of a soldier carrying six severed heads of children by the hair.  It was a photo I have obviously never forgotten and it was a jolt to my little world that forever changed my place in it and my understanding of it.  Did things like this really happen in the world, I thought?  What kind of society would let this happen?

I see this next generation growing up as spolied brats: it is a generation of entitlement.  The idea seems to be that you shouldn't have to work for anything, that they have some "right" to have everything.

So (after my rant) I believe that children should understand world news and events and the violence that really goes on in our world.  The starvation and disease of our world is quite shameful.  Top that with crooked politicians and a couple of celebrity scandals and you've got a pretty ugly world for them to see.

It would be a wonderful life if there weren't all these things in the world, but there always has been and always will be.

Teach children about the real world and maybe they will leave it a better place than we did.

Answer 5

I would give them a lesson on doing odd jobs around the house.  And a lesson on helping their neighbor out after school.  And lets don't leave out s*x education.  There is to many young boys and girls having s*x before marriage.  And one more thing.  We need to make a law were a parents after 7 years of marriage has to take a course of all of the courses .  That I have just named.  Kind of  like a refresher course.  Keep them updated on changing times.

Answer 6

etiquette, it seems to me people forget to teach their kids basic manners and blind themselves to the fact that their kids are spoiled little s***s who go around wrecking other peoples property and kicking their grannies

Answer 7

World Religions Debate class....

- i think it s highly needed in today s society!

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Answer 8

savoir vivre, the way to behave....but...i dint think it can work, since it is something heritated from the family

Answer 9

Classes on life. As a student myself, I wish our schools would teach us how to react in real life, what we need to know to survive, finances, how to not fall for the wrong person, how to make right decisions. Math, reading, history, and science don't really help us out that much in real life.

Answer 10

Respect and Honor. Teaching respect is not something to be used to control others. All people deserve to live and die with dignity intact.