Post by goldensandslash on Jun 12, 2017 0:04:05 GMT
Ah, 2017. You know what year it is right now? It's 17 years after 2000. (I guess I am now Captain Obvious.)
So the Millennials that were born in 2000 are now reaching adulthood. AND THEY DON'T KNOW JACK SHIT about how to be adults.
Seriously.
If you're aged 18 or older, you MUST know how to do the following, or else you fail as an adult, in my book:
* How to file your taxes.
* How to cook.
* How to change a tire.
* How to sew on a button.
And yes, you can take this to mean that if you are an adult and you don't know how to do one or more of those things, then you fail.
Most millennials don't know how to do these basic things. People who are about to become adults need to know things that they don't know. Now, you may think this is just some old coot complaining about the youngin's today being so entitled and comfy and such, but no. I'm not going to attack the millennials. You know who is really in trouble here?
Our Education system.
You want to know how to cook? Take a home economics class. You want to know how to file your taxes? Take a financial literacy class.
Oh wait, you can't. THOSE AREN'T OFFERED IN SCHOOLS ANYMORE.
Why the fuck would you take those out? Seriously, America, if anyone involved in the Education system is reading this, put these classes back!
Now, one counterargument you could make is that the schools should not have to teach this, the parents can.
And that argument works, provided that the parent has time for it. They don't, though. While in the past there was frequently one working parent, leaving the other to stay home and potentially teach these skills to their children, that's not the case anymore. These days, both parents work, often having two or three jobs each. There is no time for these skills to be taught.
And the result? People aren't learning these skills. There's a huge influx in the number of restaurants that have popped up in the past decade because young people eat out more often than they used to. Because they can't cook!
Another counterargument that you could make is that we live in a world of computers. If someone needs to learn this info, it wouldn't take long to Google it. While that is true, this isn't the type of thing that you should have to look up. This is something that you should just intuitively know. One of the classes that I had to take in high school was biology. You know how often in my day-to-day life I use the info that I learned in that class? NEVER. You know how often I would use the info that I would have learned in a home economics class? All the time.
We really need to sort out our priorities here.
So the Millennials that were born in 2000 are now reaching adulthood. AND THEY DON'T KNOW JACK SHIT about how to be adults.
Seriously.
If you're aged 18 or older, you MUST know how to do the following, or else you fail as an adult, in my book:
* How to file your taxes.
* How to cook.
* How to change a tire.
* How to sew on a button.
And yes, you can take this to mean that if you are an adult and you don't know how to do one or more of those things, then you fail.
Most millennials don't know how to do these basic things. People who are about to become adults need to know things that they don't know. Now, you may think this is just some old coot complaining about the youngin's today being so entitled and comfy and such, but no. I'm not going to attack the millennials. You know who is really in trouble here?
Our Education system.
You want to know how to cook? Take a home economics class. You want to know how to file your taxes? Take a financial literacy class.
Oh wait, you can't. THOSE AREN'T OFFERED IN SCHOOLS ANYMORE.
Why the fuck would you take those out? Seriously, America, if anyone involved in the Education system is reading this, put these classes back!
Now, one counterargument you could make is that the schools should not have to teach this, the parents can.
And that argument works, provided that the parent has time for it. They don't, though. While in the past there was frequently one working parent, leaving the other to stay home and potentially teach these skills to their children, that's not the case anymore. These days, both parents work, often having two or three jobs each. There is no time for these skills to be taught.
And the result? People aren't learning these skills. There's a huge influx in the number of restaurants that have popped up in the past decade because young people eat out more often than they used to. Because they can't cook!
Another counterargument that you could make is that we live in a world of computers. If someone needs to learn this info, it wouldn't take long to Google it. While that is true, this isn't the type of thing that you should have to look up. This is something that you should just intuitively know. One of the classes that I had to take in high school was biology. You know how often in my day-to-day life I use the info that I learned in that class? NEVER. You know how often I would use the info that I would have learned in a home economics class? All the time.
We really need to sort out our priorities here.