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Parents want teachers to do more when it comes to teaching their children about social and life skills inside the classroom, according to a new report.
The joint study between Monash University researchers and the Australian Scholarship Group (ASG) is the only one of its kind to investigate the state of education in Australia from parents' perspective.
Undertaken by Monash Faculty of Education associate professors Sivanes and Shane N. Phillipson, the report said Australian parents want their children to have access to a "holistic education".
According to the study, 69 per cent of parents believe schools should do more to teach their child about social skills. When ethnicity is factored in, the proportion increases substantially to 94 per cent among Indian and other Asian parents.
Furthermore, 49 per cent of parents agree they would like their child's school to do more about teaching them how to behave in public, which increases to 74 per cent among Indian and other Asian parents.
The mantra "The Corps is mother, the Corps is father" springs to mind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:12AM (3 children)
So you want everyone to join the Boy Scouts? The breastfeeding and rhythm birth control methods aren't currently taught, but I wouldn't be surprised if they create merit badges which cover those activities since they're going to allow females to join in mass. Well, circumcision isn't talked about either but cursive needs to die. There's enough languages in the world without them having multiple methods of writing. Everything else you listed you can do in Cub/Boy Scouts.
If you had better financial training you'd know you shouldn't be playing the stock market. There are many other better ways to passively make money. Trying to actively make money off the stock market is idiotic. You can get much better returns actively doing tons of other things.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:46AM (1 child)
If you had better financial training you'd know you shouldn't be playing the stock market
I am at about 700k on the stockmarket for 200k in ~10 years. I did that with passive investments in decent stocks. Something I had to teach myself how to do. It was not terribly hard but took a decent amount of negative learning to get right.
There are tons of skills that could be taught in school. But they are not.
Things like 'how to do your taxes'. Pretty much everyone has to do that. Yet pretty much only accountants are 'allowed'. You can go your own but the instructions suck ass.
How your gov works and how you can get involved. You know what we used to call civics class.
How to balance your budget. Everyone also has to do this but most people suck at it.
Fixing and repairing things is a good skill to have. It saves you tons of money as well as being 'tree huger'. You may even say it is conservative.
Everything else you listed you can do in Cub/Boy Scouts.
Which is a club where not everyone is invited in. It also costs a decent amount of cash and time to get into. Something a good portion of the population does not have.
Their and my point? Simple things taught in a class can go a long way to helping out huge swaths of our population with small to low cost effort. Instead its 'fuck you, I got mine. sucks your parents dont know either because they were not taught either'.
since they're going to allow females to join in mass.
Only a few will do that. Those will be the ones trying to show to the world how progressive they are. The rest will be putting their girls into girls scouts to get a mainline of thin mints. Who have the same set of skills that are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:49AM
If you've got a safe nest egg then great, but isn't real estate much faster? That 200k can be used for four down payments of 50k and you can end up with 4k a month after all expenses if you invested nationally (your local real estate market costs may be much higher than other areas). Once you find those four properties you can retire a simple life on 4k a month. Though chances are you'll keep going. In a few years your tenants will have paid enough principle that you can refinance and buy more houses without costing you another penny of your money. That effect snowballs and you can ride it until you hit your risk limits. Then you sit and wait 1-2 decades and as your mortgages start being paid off, your semi-passive income triples. Now you're over 10k a month, usable for whatever you want rather than keeping it locked up until retirement.
I agree with you that people should be taught way more life skills than they are and I'm glad there's more than one way to get good money. But Boy Scouts can teach you a very wide range of skills. I'd tell you to just go buy the merit badge books if you can't join, but all the info is available on the internet. You can teach yourself anything nowadays. But knowing that you can/should and finding the drive to do so is difficult. There's far too much learned helplessness in the world.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:11AM
> If you had better financial training you'd know you shouldn't be playing the stock market.
You could not be more wrong. The stock market is the primary means the rich use to get richer. Just don't be stupid. DON'T PANIC. All you need do is dump your savings in the market after a crash, then ride the recovery. Buy low, sell high. Further, there are all kinds of tax breaks to make stocks even better. Profits on stocks are taxed at 15%, while wages get smacked with 25% and up. The Roth IRA is one of the biggest gifts to the rich, with all profit generated from that money being taxed not at 15%, but at 0%! Same story with the educational 529 plan. Use them! And don't wait for a crash to put a Roth to use, they're that good.