Over here we're allowed to ride a motorized bike at the age of 14

i'm a bit of a "i will just stay home and enjoy my games" sort of person anyway, so i didn't feel trapped.

but looking back on it i feel like I would have done better if I had more work sooner in life.

Howabout"cheated out of life skills"?

I agree, I'm very happy that I was allowed to work at 14

only life skill that i'm really missing is wakeing up in the morning.

I learned plenty at home, grew up on a small farm.

Man, so you're actually one of the lucky ones

that I am.

could have been better, but could have been so much worse.

We need to do something about public education, it can't go on like this

It's wasting years of childrens' lives

that's a fact for sure.

History can be taught in the span of a few months

No more is required

yah, and i have found some great presenters on youtube with out even looking.

I was trapped in suburban middle class "it's not your place to do that job" so I came out of highschool with Jack all practical life skills like budgeting, laundry, sleep schedule ect.

I am so glad I didn't grow up like that, would have driven me nuts.

I also don't understand why teachers are so hung up on wanting to test and score children on their history knowledge

It literally makes no difference

They get out of school and forget much/most of it anyway

It's to make sure they are parroting the narrative

the more important thing for history is finding that info.

Yeah, knowing how to learn history is key, not actually knowing history

Most people will forget it all and never look it up again

well that's like everything really, cept spelling I think.

Same with geography

Biggest life skill to learn, how to ask a question

spelling is memory and yah, geography is memory.

Most people can't correctly draw their own country, or the states within

though geography is a topic i never cared for, I know how to read a map for driveing but i don't know if any of that was form my geography books.

that was form going out and rideing with my dad in the truck, i'm still mad that i can't take riders until they are 18.

like how are you gonna get a kid interested in this work if you can't take them out till then?

I grew up reading the US atlas on road trips with my dad

Great way to learn

by then hopefully they are doing at least part time work that would make a OTR road trip not possible!

and yah, that should be a thing, like the comeing of age ritual.
"you are gonna drive all the way to the other coast and back again and only then will you be a man!"

Another problem with public education is that, since children have to sit for so long (not just in school), they don't have enough time left to do sports, and the opportunities to do sports are lacking because all that money goes into public education.

it's not even that long a trip really, a month tops.

Instead they sit in school, sit after school, and even sit during playtime

not much interest in sports myself, but haveing space for kids to play games of their own is important for sure.