Most people learn recorder around 8-10 years old. I don’t know why you would want to learn taxes at that age.
Over a decade ago in our high school we had a personal finance class in 1st year; we learned about tracking stocks, limited budgeting, how to fill out a check and that was really it. However, nobody cared and why should we? We couldn’t even work until 16 years old and we were 14 and you can’t get stocks until 18. If it were at around 3rd year then it would have been more relevant.
Most of this stuff is now obsolete due to technology anyway. I rarely cash in checks but all I do is just take it to cash checking. No name signing, just give them the check, get photo taken, and get the money.
Taxes is the only thing that isn’t obsolete and should be taught at some point somewhere. Sure, some of it is just copying numbers but then there’s tax deductibles and running a business that requires quarterly taxes when over $1k.
districts in some parts of the country do have classes, senior seminars, or workshops, that cover things like this and other ‘life skills’. it was a graduation requirement at my public high school, waaaay back in the 1980s in minnesota.
Because first graders are really going to carry those lessons onward 🙄
What does hot cross buns mean in this context?
It’s one of the first songs taught on a recorder.
It’s a super basic song that people tend to learn early in music. It’s three notes and a very simple pattern.
HOT
CROSS
BUNS
HOT
CROSS
BUNS
ONE-A-PENNY TWO-A-PENNY
HOT
CROSS
BUNS
Do people laugh out loud at this kind of joke? Without being judgmental, I never find myself tickled by this setup.
I’m going to become rich and famous when I invent a recorder with a headphone socket.
Kids should learn about taxes and other important life lessons. However musical studies help kids a lot. It improves memory, hand eye coordination, increases grey matter in their brains, improves fine motor skills…all sorts of benefits come from learning a musical instrument. Plus once they can actually play you’ll have a live in classical jukebox.
Okay but does the music have to be from a recorder? The sound makes me bleed from the eyes.
Teenagers should learn this. Not in elementary school.
Have you heard hot cross buns? The tune has three notes, everyone plays the melody because that’s all their is, and it’s like 8 measures long. Maybe even 4 and we just played it slow, I don’t remember. It’s the beginner song. Elementary school kids can handle it, especially since we had to sing and dance every year up until then (also simple stuff for kids).
It’s also important to expose kids to a major facet of human culture. If they don’t come from a musical household, they may never get exposed to the intoxicating phenomenon of making musical sounds.
Kids learn to read, to write and to do basic math. Congrats, you can now do taxes and choose a health plan. Most specific tasks people complain about are just the application of other more general skills school aims to teach… And the people who make these complaints are usually the same ones who would fuck around in class and not listen even if they got the classes they “wish for”.
Music is also important, but your first sentence is bogus.
Ah yes, my school health class taught me about nutrition. So I should be able to go home and cook a healthy meal no problemo. Right? Riiiiiiight???
Yes. It isn’t hard.
Taking the general lesson to the specific application can take training. Not everyone will understand taxes just by reading. Look at how many adults now a days don’t understand tax brackets as a good example. Tax brackets are something that is fairly simple to explain and yet we have a good portion of adults who don’t understand them and will insist they get less money while getting a raise.
My first sentence isn’t bogus, you just happened to understand the general lessons and apply them to the specific application. Other people find that challenging.
Most don’t understand it because most are stupid. About 50% can’t read at a 6th grade level and about 19% are functionally illiterate. Taxes are hard because people can’t read.
Also it’s just like…fun? And fulfilling? Not everything in education should be about preparing good little workers.
“Theirs not to make reply / Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do.” (you don’t learn the last two words of that poem until later, long after you are done with school)
Did you guys not have at least basic lessons about how your country works? And were they from the same teacher who did primary school music lessons?
I had to take a “home economics” class in highschool. However, you could test out of it. I was unaware that you could do this, so I had to take it. They taught us the very basic us tax form, how to write a resume, how to write a check (yes I’m old). It was very remedial stuff that can easily be learned if you need to know it. The 1040EZ tax form is for someone with a regular job and it has a set of instructions that goes with it. In fact, all us tax forms have a separate instruction sheet unless you have a very niche problem such as repayment of unemployment income or something like that.
Schools don’t exist to create capitalist drones…
The right healthcare plan is the free one offered in another country.
