Adulting class in high school

[AsteroidStar]

My DD13 is in 8th grade,and the time has come for her to apply for high school. She wants to attend a very fast paced, high academic early college high school here in town. We were going over the course catalog(this thing is 63 pages long!) and one of the courses offered to seniors is "How to be an adult". It teaches budgeting, grocery shopping, balancing a checkbook, caring for a home(including basic maintenance), child development, how to do your taxes, among other things. I am really pleased about this. Too many kids are sent out into the world with very little concept on how to actually survive independently as adults.

[Guest]

They teach all of those skills on school starting in primary school where I live

[Guest]

That class has always been Home Economics and has been taught in every high school around here well, since I was in school and Im 43 yrs old now.

[AsteroidStar]

They teach all of those skills on school starting in primary school where I live

I wish they did that here! Really though, I am so impressed with this school. It's highly academic, but they really do also seem to balance the academics with some really cool, fun stuff. I would have loved to have gone to a school like that!

[AsteroidStar]

That class has always been Home Economics and has been taught in every high school around here well, since I was in school and Im 43 yrs old now.

Home Ec has always been an elective here, if it is even offered. This class is required in order to graduate.

[mrsjules79]

It should be a required class. Here, home ec teaches basic cooking and sewing but that's it.

[Anon]

I teach my kids that everyday

[Guest]

That class has always been Home Economics and has been taught in every high school around here well, since I was in school and Im 43 yrs old now.

Home Ec has always been an elective here, if it is even offered. This class is required in order to graduate.

I can understand it, my dd's boyfriend( who didnt grow up around here) had no clue how to do many of those things, so much so that my dd wrote her College entrance paper on the fact that High School's should teach more life skills .

[KendallsMom]

Cool.

[MrsDavidB]

I loved home EC in high school. And the cooking/baking classes. I have no idea if they even do those anymore in school.