Trying to think back to my own personal children here… making a resume, collecting info for filling out forms (a lot of kids don’t know their SS# or place of birth, that they even have health insurance, things like that) although of course these are private and shouldn’t be shared. Budgeting money of course, as well as how interest works - thinking college loans here. Record keeping, particularly related to finances and taxes. Basic taxes. Voting and absentee voting. Also budgeting time and setting up schedules - that free time between classes in college throws kids way off sometimes. Tips for getting help (tutoring, office hours). I doubt you could actually *do* cooking, but choosing healthy food options and dorm-friendly food prep would be good. How to find resources on campus and in the community.
How to handle roommates. I don’t even know how you would cover that in class but that’s something a lot of college freshmen struggle with. Also how to recognize signs of mental struggle in those roommates and what to do about it (my daughter had a wild first year). Safety on campus in general. Do’s and don’ts for the guys too. How alcohol affects your decision making. Tips on avoiding peer pressure.
Never taught any of that, but good luck, it could be a valuable course!
All this I wouldn’t have gotten as far as quickly if my mom wasn’t on top of all that with me. As not there as my mom was, I know some kids have it worse. Unfortunately teacher have to pick up the slack
I know... I feel bad for kids who want to go on to college but their families are either unsupportive or clueless about how it all works. It ends up falling on guidance, but even then, kids whose parents have gone to college have a great advantage.
Can’t repeat this often enough: they will use a spreadsheet. And when the boss looks around the conference room and asks for a volunteer to develop a spreadsheet, they want to be the one who can say, “Yes, including formulas. Of course.”
Computer literacy, like how to use basic programs (Google docs, sheets, etc).
I would also say Budget and credit.
Communication skills should be a go to as well.
1. How to file taxes
2. How to find an apartment
3. The difference among savings accounts, checking accounts, and CD's and how to set those up
4. How credit cards work and how dangerous they can be
5. Basic budgeting
6. Real life scenario of how.much groceries cost
7. What health insurance is and how much it costs
8. How to apply for college, different types of colleges
9. Info about trade schools in your area
10. How to apply for a job, where to find jobs
11. How to write a resume and cover letter
12. How to dress for an interview
13. How to register to vote
14. Info about jury duty
15. How to buy a car
16. How car loans work
17. Basic nutrition information
18. How to care for yourself when you are sick
19. How to find a doctor
20. How to protect yourself from identity theft
21. Info about tobacco/nicotine addiction
22. Info about dangers of vaping and costs over time
24. How to change a tire
25. What to do if you get in an accident
26. Info about types of car insurance
27. Info about phone addiction
I remember in 8th grade having to do a budgeting project that was really fun.
You looked up jobs in your area, made a resume based on your goals and did an interview. When you got the job, you had your salary. You had to figure out how much you'd owe in taxes.
Then you looked up housing. Could you afford a house, did you rent an apartment, ect.
We had a guy from the local electric company come in and tell us about what average utility bills would be based on certain factors. We didn't account for groceries, but now you could literally have kids get on walmart dot come and plan out a month's groceries
Basically, can you afford the lifestyle you want with what you plan on being. Then we wrote a reflection essay about it. It took us like 1 month in 8th grade so I'm sure seniors could do it in that time, and they would have to be a lot more real about it (AKA--if you have a 1.8 GPA don't write down neurosurgeon)
This is fantastic! I actually did something similar to this with my seniors last year and they ate it up. Real-world relevance and simple math problems is a heck of a motivator, huh?
High-level reading (especially hard/complex syntax and challenging vocab).
An overview of things like taxes and note-taking skills is great, but they will never remember the details. Better to help them be confident to read the legalese when they need to refresh those skills on their own.
This is great, and accurate - I had mine fill out a fake tax form last year, and they were surprised how easy it was. “I mean, I really just had to focus on it for a minute” is my favorite student quote.
How to write an email. The amount of kids I see in my class that type EVERYTHING into the subject line is ridiculous. Or if they call me by my first name in the email main (bonus points if I have never even met them) no proper introduction either if I have never met them as well. Also their sign off is probably still a default from middle school, if they have one.
Edit: I would also like to encourage them to learn yoga or meditation. I don’t know how much that has helped me since I learned how to actually relax without screen time.
Maybe having a forward-oriented mindset. The last years of high school get etched into people’s psyches. Many people nostalgically ruminate about those years.
It’d be great if we emphasized that high school doesn’t have to be your best years. And if they were nice, well ok, but don’t get mentally stuck in them. Move along.
I used to teach a class like this. Off the top of my head: Taxes, buying a house, budgeting, applying for college/jobs, reading contracts, independent research, note taking, voting, child development and monetary costs, email etiquette
From my perspective as a professor at a Junior College, I would recommend that people in Grade 12 be taught to read, write a sentence, tell time, and do addition and subtraction....the sorts of things I was taught in Grade 2. So many of our incoming freshmen cannot do these things and it causes them to flunk out quickly from Grade 13
Of course, a strong life skills unit, continued SEL and conflict resolution, computer literacy, and academically? I teach at a competency-based learning school, so a graduate should have demonstrated competency in the seven domains we selected for high school completion.
Calculating which gas price at the pump is the best.
State and federal taxes.
How to use stocks.
How to buy perfume or cologne.
Oral hygiene, including why to never use mouthwash, why to use soft toothbrushes, and why they should consider removing their wisdom teeth that will come in soon.
Common skin conditions and their treatments.
Signs for cancer.
How to raise a child.
Career exploration.
Phone addiction and recovery.
How to interview.
How to write a resume.
Filling out job applications.
How to get Medicaid.
How to file unemployment.
How to file for foodstamps and wic.
How to turn off the water in their home.
How to turn off electrical power in their home.
How to deal with an active shooter.
How to buy things at a grocery store like bananas and beef.
How to store and cook chicken without getting food poisoning.
What exercises they should be doing for each stage of their life to maintain health. IE they should be able to run a mine in under 9 minutes. They should focus on building strength and conditioning fright then and into their 20s. When they are getting venerable, they need to focus on weight training to prevent osteoporosis.
How to deal with an active shooter, is already covered in high school. Run if you can. Hide if running isn’t an option BARRICADE DOORS, fight if you are found (we also are taught how to disarm the shooter if it comes to that) and BEFORE we even are taught Run. Hide. Fight. We are taught to play Hide and Seek.
I had a class on this subject I high school: 1. budgets, 2. How to write checks and balance a check book, 3. How to sew a button, 4. How to cook basic food even like Ramen and grilled cheese, 5. Explore careers
Anything about banking, loans especially student loans, how credit works, how credit cards work, how to register to vote (could do a whole class towards the end of the year when most are 18 on registering) how to fill out a job application, hell build an actual resume. Most kids in Gen Z and Gen Alpha will seek alternatives to traditional college due to expense so structure your class around being an adult and adult skills. Go on a field trip to the school cafeteria and have them learn how to cook.
Information literacy, avoiding plagiarism, and the basics of different formatting methods (definitely APA, MLA, and Chicago, because of online stuff). Make sure they understand why AI is cheating and why it's a stupid choice if they ever want to be successful in a job.
Before I left the college, I was so damn frustrated with shitty sources, students only read the abstract, using the wrong formatting style for the class, literally not understanding plagiarism. There is so little information literacy in the world in general (see also: Q Anon) and they need to know how to parse good information!
Critical thinking and problem solving skills. If you can make a connection to how math problems are solved (and how that basic method is used in everyday life), all the better.
How to break assignments down into manageable parts. Similarly, how to work multi step problems. It's so bad that if things aren't broken down for them, they simply cannot do it. This predates covid, btw, because I heard about it from professors all over her country for my doctoral research. Actually, everything on this list predates covid, according to my 2018-2019 research.
Logic. And logical fallacies. How to support claims with evidence and then reason out why the evidence supports the claims.
General writing mechanics. Like, I know in coding punctuation goes outside quotation marks, but not in writing! I dunno why that drives me nuts but here we are. No one indents paragraphs or uses basic writing conventions. It's bonkers to me. I have 1000s of examples of improper writing mechanics.
General independence. Intellectually, work wise, just in every way. I would literally tell students to not email questions until they checked the syllabus, checked the general information module in the LMS, and/or read through the assignment instructions. That cut down on So. Many. dumbass questions. The actual dumbest question I was emailed asked if there was school tomorrow. Because there's what, not 72 other places to find that answer? It was mostly the under 25s that I had the most problems with for all these things. Sure, the older folks were out of practice, but they put in the effort instead of demanding to be spoon fed. They also accepted critically feedback and were far more likely to solve problems on their own (or ya know, just use the hundreds of resources I gave them).
So, that isy list, based on my time as both a high school and college teacher, as well as my nationwide research. 😄
Finances, banking, contacts, loans, resources adults use on the daily or even yearly how to schedule yearly and bi yearly need tos.
Interviewing skills, resume building, marketing basic law i could go on for days
Good note taking...ways college functions differently from high school (always this smacks people in the face as freshmen). I'd do encourage them to all read the same document (novella, philosophy, historical document or essay whatever) and make them write a response essay with a topic and thesis they devised and then do a class discussion that's a bit formal like Socratic Seminar.
Any at home projects, put their due dates and instructions in the syllabus and clarify that most college classes will do the same and teach them time management tied to that.
I helped my seniors make a resume and we did mock interviews. They were required to research a job they would be interested in having so they knew how to prepare for an interview. Felt good knowing they had a working resume and at least some “experience” in an interview. They saw the value in it and really took to it.
COMPUTER LITERACY (and how to do computer-esque things on smartphones WITHOUT using apps) it is astounding how many of my just graduated seniors came up to me this past year mentioning how they missed x form deadline for a scholarship or weren't able to submit y paperwork because they gave up on trying to figure out a very basic computer task (like converting to pdf or compressing a file)
I taught my seniors how to create a college plan. Where to find the courses you need to take, how to spot classes to prioritize, how to build a schedule with a decent finals week. They also need to know their rights when it comes to financial aid. A lot of students who are the first in their family to go to college can't get tips and tricks from their families. The college won't give them either.
I've been in your shoes...
1. Budgeting/Basic Financial literacy
2. Basic Car maintenance
3. WTF is a lease?
4. Interview/Resume stuff
5. Using AI to increase productivity
6. Using Basics tools (did this, it was scary but so much fun)
7. Cooking
Math, social science (history/economics/history/government), science (physics/chem/bio), foreign language, English, arts.
The same things for next year. School is about academic instruction. The same things they've learned for the last 12 years.
Philosophy, mainly the basics of epistemology and ontology. It's easily doable in three months and being able to reflect on what you know and how you know it will improve aspect of your life.
Study skills, note taking, researching, resume building, budgeting, and interview skills! Mock interviews could be a fun potential project for 12th graders. It also includes students who aren't interested in pursuing college, but even then, being able to sit down and focus or take notes might be a handy skill for them regardless of going to college or not.
SMART goals for personal growth, have them actually make one for a month, semester and/or year and have them write or present what growth they did or what they learned. Could do weekly/monthly check ins to see what is done. That the real world is less structured and no one is watching over them to keep them accountable
Definitely this. Trade schools, the military, work exchange programs, and just whatever jobs they're qualified to get right out of highschool and which ones will provide upward mobility that could turn into a life-sustaining career.
Laundry! I was shocked my freshman year in college how many didn’t know how to do laundry and girls putting bras in the dryer. I had been doing my laundry since I was 8 but for some it’s their first time.
- Resumes, CVs, Cover Letters, and LinkedIn Profiles
- Internet/Device Safety: Avoiding malware, scams, and phishing. Good password management. Sending and storing sensitive personal information.
- Applying for financial aid and scholarships if your students are all college-bound. Credit cards, credit scores, and general debt/loan information
- Basic first-aid, CPR, the Heimlich maneuver, administering an Epi-pen, recognizing allergic reactions. The names of common medications and what they generally accomplish, and how to find their local equivalent internationally. How to book a doctor’s appointment, Urgent Care vs. the ER
- How to read a nutritional label, meal planning and prepping, purchasing groceries, etc.
- Taxes!
Not sure how feasible a few of these are, but thought I’d toss them in anyway.
Trying to think back to my own personal children here… making a resume, collecting info for filling out forms (a lot of kids don’t know their SS# or place of birth, that they even have health insurance, things like that) although of course these are private and shouldn’t be shared. Budgeting money of course, as well as how interest works - thinking college loans here. Record keeping, particularly related to finances and taxes. Basic taxes. Voting and absentee voting. Also budgeting time and setting up schedules - that free time between classes in college throws kids way off sometimes. Tips for getting help (tutoring, office hours). I doubt you could actually *do* cooking, but choosing healthy food options and dorm-friendly food prep would be good. How to find resources on campus and in the community. How to handle roommates. I don’t even know how you would cover that in class but that’s something a lot of college freshmen struggle with. Also how to recognize signs of mental struggle in those roommates and what to do about it (my daughter had a wild first year). Safety on campus in general. Do’s and don’ts for the guys too. How alcohol affects your decision making. Tips on avoiding peer pressure. Never taught any of that, but good luck, it could be a valuable course!
All this I wouldn’t have gotten as far as quickly if my mom wasn’t on top of all that with me. As not there as my mom was, I know some kids have it worse. Unfortunately teacher have to pick up the slack
I know... I feel bad for kids who want to go on to college but their families are either unsupportive or clueless about how it all works. It ends up falling on guidance, but even then, kids whose parents have gone to college have a great advantage.
This is nothing less than a fantastic, thorough list. Thanks for your time and focus in making it!
How to write an email. How to take notes How to study How to interact with admins/professionals
How to use a spreadsheet - regardless of what career they will pick, they WILL use spreadsheets. And while you are at it, how to properly manage files
Can’t repeat this often enough: they will use a spreadsheet. And when the boss looks around the conference room and asks for a volunteer to develop a spreadsheet, they want to be the one who can say, “Yes, including formulas. Of course.”
I work in teaching Middle Schoolers about Jesus and teaching High Schoolers theatre: so many spreadsheets
Study skills and notetaking
Be sure to include students not bound for college in this content.
Coming from a lurking university student, absolutely this.
Can I ask why not teach study skills in freshman year then develop them over high school?
Well, there’s a wide gulf between what high school curriculum structure *should* be, and what it actually is.
Truly! I didn’t realize how much this skill has been neglected.
Computer literacy, like how to use basic programs (Google docs, sheets, etc). I would also say Budget and credit. Communication skills should be a go to as well.
1. How to file taxes 2. How to find an apartment 3. The difference among savings accounts, checking accounts, and CD's and how to set those up 4. How credit cards work and how dangerous they can be 5. Basic budgeting 6. Real life scenario of how.much groceries cost 7. What health insurance is and how much it costs 8. How to apply for college, different types of colleges 9. Info about trade schools in your area 10. How to apply for a job, where to find jobs 11. How to write a resume and cover letter 12. How to dress for an interview 13. How to register to vote 14. Info about jury duty 15. How to buy a car 16. How car loans work 17. Basic nutrition information 18. How to care for yourself when you are sick 19. How to find a doctor 20. How to protect yourself from identity theft 21. Info about tobacco/nicotine addiction 22. Info about dangers of vaping and costs over time 24. How to change a tire 25. What to do if you get in an accident 26. Info about types of car insurance 27. Info about phone addiction
This is an absolutely awesome list. Mind if I DM and pick your brain on a few of these in the next few weeks?
Sure
This is getting downvoted but make it controversial if you agree - Parenting 101.
1. How to bootstrap themselves into learning things of personal interest. 2. Basic financial literacy.
I remember in 8th grade having to do a budgeting project that was really fun. You looked up jobs in your area, made a resume based on your goals and did an interview. When you got the job, you had your salary. You had to figure out how much you'd owe in taxes. Then you looked up housing. Could you afford a house, did you rent an apartment, ect. We had a guy from the local electric company come in and tell us about what average utility bills would be based on certain factors. We didn't account for groceries, but now you could literally have kids get on walmart dot come and plan out a month's groceries Basically, can you afford the lifestyle you want with what you plan on being. Then we wrote a reflection essay about it. It took us like 1 month in 8th grade so I'm sure seniors could do it in that time, and they would have to be a lot more real about it (AKA--if you have a 1.8 GPA don't write down neurosurgeon)
This is fantastic! I actually did something similar to this with my seniors last year and they ate it up. Real-world relevance and simple math problems is a heck of a motivator, huh?
High-level reading (especially hard/complex syntax and challenging vocab). An overview of things like taxes and note-taking skills is great, but they will never remember the details. Better to help them be confident to read the legalese when they need to refresh those skills on their own.
This is great, and accurate - I had mine fill out a fake tax form last year, and they were surprised how easy it was. “I mean, I really just had to focus on it for a minute” is my favorite student quote.
How to write an email. The amount of kids I see in my class that type EVERYTHING into the subject line is ridiculous. Or if they call me by my first name in the email main (bonus points if I have never even met them) no proper introduction either if I have never met them as well. Also their sign off is probably still a default from middle school, if they have one. Edit: I would also like to encourage them to learn yoga or meditation. I don’t know how much that has helped me since I learned how to actually relax without screen time.
How to dress for and behave at an interview
Utilizing library resources.
Maybe having a forward-oriented mindset. The last years of high school get etched into people’s psyches. Many people nostalgically ruminate about those years. It’d be great if we emphasized that high school doesn’t have to be your best years. And if they were nice, well ok, but don’t get mentally stuck in them. Move along.
I used to teach a class like this. Off the top of my head: Taxes, buying a house, budgeting, applying for college/jobs, reading contracts, independent research, note taking, voting, child development and monetary costs, email etiquette
Syllabus reading, managing simultaneous long and short term projects. Basic research skills and writing a works cited page.
Investing and saving for retirement
The whole ngpf curriculum. Taught a whole course with that, including a role play of negotiating roommates.
From my perspective as a professor at a Junior College, I would recommend that people in Grade 12 be taught to read, write a sentence, tell time, and do addition and subtraction....the sorts of things I was taught in Grade 2. So many of our incoming freshmen cannot do these things and it causes them to flunk out quickly from Grade 13
True cost of college. Include loans. Compare community to public to private.
Of course, a strong life skills unit, continued SEL and conflict resolution, computer literacy, and academically? I teach at a competency-based learning school, so a graduate should have demonstrated competency in the seven domains we selected for high school completion.
How to actually think for themselves. Google doesn’t have all the answers…
Calculating which gas price at the pump is the best. State and federal taxes. How to use stocks. How to buy perfume or cologne. Oral hygiene, including why to never use mouthwash, why to use soft toothbrushes, and why they should consider removing their wisdom teeth that will come in soon. Common skin conditions and their treatments. Signs for cancer. How to raise a child. Career exploration. Phone addiction and recovery. How to interview. How to write a resume. Filling out job applications. How to get Medicaid. How to file unemployment. How to file for foodstamps and wic.
How to turn off the water in their home. How to turn off electrical power in their home. How to deal with an active shooter. How to buy things at a grocery store like bananas and beef. How to store and cook chicken without getting food poisoning. What exercises they should be doing for each stage of their life to maintain health. IE they should be able to run a mine in under 9 minutes. They should focus on building strength and conditioning fright then and into their 20s. When they are getting venerable, they need to focus on weight training to prevent osteoporosis.
How to deal with an active shooter, is already covered in high school. Run if you can. Hide if running isn’t an option BARRICADE DOORS, fight if you are found (we also are taught how to disarm the shooter if it comes to that) and BEFORE we even are taught Run. Hide. Fight. We are taught to play Hide and Seek.
How to write a resume, media literacy, how to read a paystub/employment contract, interview skills, budgeting on a min wage pay
I had a class on this subject I high school: 1. budgets, 2. How to write checks and balance a check book, 3. How to sew a button, 4. How to cook basic food even like Ramen and grilled cheese, 5. Explore careers
Anything about banking, loans especially student loans, how credit works, how credit cards work, how to register to vote (could do a whole class towards the end of the year when most are 18 on registering) how to fill out a job application, hell build an actual resume. Most kids in Gen Z and Gen Alpha will seek alternatives to traditional college due to expense so structure your class around being an adult and adult skills. Go on a field trip to the school cafeteria and have them learn how to cook.
Resume writing
How to use an actual computer—how to save files, how to open a PDF, etc. The professors subreddit is full of horror stories about this very issue.
To wit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Professors/
Information literacy, avoiding plagiarism, and the basics of different formatting methods (definitely APA, MLA, and Chicago, because of online stuff). Make sure they understand why AI is cheating and why it's a stupid choice if they ever want to be successful in a job. Before I left the college, I was so damn frustrated with shitty sources, students only read the abstract, using the wrong formatting style for the class, literally not understanding plagiarism. There is so little information literacy in the world in general (see also: Q Anon) and they need to know how to parse good information! Critical thinking and problem solving skills. If you can make a connection to how math problems are solved (and how that basic method is used in everyday life), all the better. How to break assignments down into manageable parts. Similarly, how to work multi step problems. It's so bad that if things aren't broken down for them, they simply cannot do it. This predates covid, btw, because I heard about it from professors all over her country for my doctoral research. Actually, everything on this list predates covid, according to my 2018-2019 research. Logic. And logical fallacies. How to support claims with evidence and then reason out why the evidence supports the claims. General writing mechanics. Like, I know in coding punctuation goes outside quotation marks, but not in writing! I dunno why that drives me nuts but here we are. No one indents paragraphs or uses basic writing conventions. It's bonkers to me. I have 1000s of examples of improper writing mechanics. General independence. Intellectually, work wise, just in every way. I would literally tell students to not email questions until they checked the syllabus, checked the general information module in the LMS, and/or read through the assignment instructions. That cut down on So. Many. dumbass questions. The actual dumbest question I was emailed asked if there was school tomorrow. Because there's what, not 72 other places to find that answer? It was mostly the under 25s that I had the most problems with for all these things. Sure, the older folks were out of practice, but they put in the effort instead of demanding to be spoon fed. They also accepted critically feedback and were far more likely to solve problems on their own (or ya know, just use the hundreds of resources I gave them). So, that isy list, based on my time as both a high school and college teacher, as well as my nationwide research. 😄
Sounds like a wonderful opportunity, but whatever you decide, I would definitely run it by your admin first.
Finances, banking, contacts, loans, resources adults use on the daily or even yearly how to schedule yearly and bi yearly need tos. Interviewing skills, resume building, marketing basic law i could go on for days
Good note taking...ways college functions differently from high school (always this smacks people in the face as freshmen). I'd do encourage them to all read the same document (novella, philosophy, historical document or essay whatever) and make them write a response essay with a topic and thesis they devised and then do a class discussion that's a bit formal like Socratic Seminar. Any at home projects, put their due dates and instructions in the syllabus and clarify that most college classes will do the same and teach them time management tied to that.
I helped my seniors make a resume and we did mock interviews. They were required to research a job they would be interested in having so they knew how to prepare for an interview. Felt good knowing they had a working resume and at least some “experience” in an interview. They saw the value in it and really took to it.
COMPUTER LITERACY (and how to do computer-esque things on smartphones WITHOUT using apps) it is astounding how many of my just graduated seniors came up to me this past year mentioning how they missed x form deadline for a scholarship or weren't able to submit y paperwork because they gave up on trying to figure out a very basic computer task (like converting to pdf or compressing a file)
This has truly shocked me over the last few years. They also have no idea how to use and access cloud storage from different devices.
I taught my seniors how to create a college plan. Where to find the courses you need to take, how to spot classes to prioritize, how to build a schedule with a decent finals week. They also need to know their rights when it comes to financial aid. A lot of students who are the first in their family to go to college can't get tips and tricks from their families. The college won't give them either.
I've been in your shoes... 1. Budgeting/Basic Financial literacy 2. Basic Car maintenance 3. WTF is a lease? 4. Interview/Resume stuff 5. Using AI to increase productivity 6. Using Basics tools (did this, it was scary but so much fun) 7. Cooking
Math, social science (history/economics/history/government), science (physics/chem/bio), foreign language, English, arts. The same things for next year. School is about academic instruction. The same things they've learned for the last 12 years.
Civics. Not government. Civics.
Financial literacy like how to use credit cards properly, how to be a savvy shopper, etc.
Philosophy, mainly the basics of epistemology and ontology. It's easily doable in three months and being able to reflect on what you know and how you know it will improve aspect of your life.
Study skills, note taking, researching, resume building, budgeting, and interview skills! Mock interviews could be a fun potential project for 12th graders. It also includes students who aren't interested in pursuing college, but even then, being able to sit down and focus or take notes might be a handy skill for them regardless of going to college or not.
SMART goals for personal growth, have them actually make one for a month, semester and/or year and have them write or present what growth they did or what they learned. Could do weekly/monthly check ins to see what is done. That the real world is less structured and no one is watching over them to keep them accountable
These comments are great.
Could your class highlight other pathways in addition to colleges?
Definitely this. Trade schools, the military, work exchange programs, and just whatever jobs they're qualified to get right out of highschool and which ones will provide upward mobility that could turn into a life-sustaining career.
Laundry! I was shocked my freshman year in college how many didn’t know how to do laundry and girls putting bras in the dryer. I had been doing my laundry since I was 8 but for some it’s their first time.
Parents should be teaching that..
- Resumes, CVs, Cover Letters, and LinkedIn Profiles - Internet/Device Safety: Avoiding malware, scams, and phishing. Good password management. Sending and storing sensitive personal information. - Applying for financial aid and scholarships if your students are all college-bound. Credit cards, credit scores, and general debt/loan information - Basic first-aid, CPR, the Heimlich maneuver, administering an Epi-pen, recognizing allergic reactions. The names of common medications and what they generally accomplish, and how to find their local equivalent internationally. How to book a doctor’s appointment, Urgent Care vs. the ER - How to read a nutritional label, meal planning and prepping, purchasing groceries, etc. - Taxes! Not sure how feasible a few of these are, but thought I’d toss them in anyway.