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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: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:30AM (6 children)
Generally speaking, there's a lot of good stuff on your list. I find the opening gambit to be a bit odd, though:
This is the very first thing on your list? Given the various survivalist skills you mention, I think it deserves to be included. But the reality is that the ability of normal people (i.e., not trained police or military or gun fanatics who go to the range regularly) to respond well using a firearm in a tense situation is often greatly overestimated.
Again, not saying people shouldn't learn it. But it's telling that it's at the very tippy top of your long list.
No, you don't need that. Why the hell is that #2? Why would you want to short stocks? You do realize that the stock market is basically gambling for rich white people, right? Sure, there are insiders who skirt the rules to make a profit and others who are just plain lucky, but the vast majority of even professional fund managers have trouble maintaining consistent performance that beats the market overage over the long haul. You might as well put "be skilled at blowing on the dice to win at craps" as #3.
Maybe -- "learn the difference between volatile investments that are basically legalized gambling vs. knowing how to invest your money safely long-term in a way that won't leave you behind the average gain over time." THAT'S a useful skill to know, not fast-paced shorting and options trading.
So, we leave all the circumcised kids to the wolves?
(In all seriousness, kids with foreskins basically should be mostly left alone. If you're "caring" for them before they retract on their own, you're probably messing unnecessarily with your kid's junk, and possibly doing more harm than good. There's a lot of stupid misinformation about foreskin care and "normal" age for retraction that originated with some BS in the hygiene movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the same BS that led to widespread genital mutilation of infant boys in Western nations for decades.)
I think I know how to do the latter pretty well, but I'm pretty challenged at the former. :)
Wow... this segued into some pretty specific stuff. Have you had fertility issues in your relationships? Are you tired of having sex just for the fun of it during the "baby-making" phase? Not a bad skill to know, I guess, but if you're going to throw that in, perhaps teaching some skills about how to give pleasure to a woman before you go examining her cervix mucus texture might be in order. Just sayin'. We seem to have skipped directly from "How to greet/introduce people" and "how to get a date" to looking at mucus for baby-making. (Unless... maybe that "breast exam" was supposed to count as foreplay?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:54AM (5 children)
Charting fertility is the most effective form of birth control when you're taught how to do it. I think that's what the original posting was trying to get at.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 14 2017, @10:52AM (4 children)
Beg to differ. Sodomy is more effective.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by chromas on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:49PM (1 child)
Well, if you're gonna be anal about it.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday October 14 2017, @06:14PM
You sure pulled that one right out of your ass.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @05:35PM (1 child)
Q: What do you call people who use the "rhythm" method of birth control?
A: Parents.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @06:14AM
The rhythm method is obsolete. It relies only on menstration and/or body temperature.
Newer methods rely on mucus examination. This is far more reliable. Mucus is judged according to color, transparency, ability to be stretched out without breaking, and slipperyness.
You can use it to make babies or to avoid them, or even just to know a due date or father in case a baby happens to be created.
As birth control, it fails when people blow off the signs and fuck condom-free anyway. This happens because an ovulating woman is especially horny. Note that women on hormonal birth control miss out on this entirely, and their relationships suffer the loss of it. Ovulation is simply the most enjoyable time to fuck.