"Mom, I need help." I said as I was sitting at the table looking at a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper the bank had mailed to me in my name. "What is it now Bri.", she said as she approached. "What am I doing here? Im so confused on what to do with these numbers.", " Don't you know how to balance a checkbook? What have they been teaching you guys this whole time while you are at school?", she said with a confused look on her face. " I can tell you an answer to a crazy math problem mom, but I have to agree with you, I don't know why we learn this stuff that doesn't really apply to life."
When people think about school, most think of the blackboard with the nasty, dirty eraser, or the famous apple on the desk with a worm in it icon, but what …show more content…
Stranger danger was one of our worst nightmares and it haunted us in our dreams, but what we don't notice, is that back "then" strangers were actual live people. You saw them in person and if they started to talk to you, you would either kick him in the face or run like crazy. "Now" kids still have the same problem, but it is not the same so to speak. In fact, its way different because the use of technology. Children now have a tendency to meet more people on line than they might ever meet in person! This is what we would call meeting strangers nowdays. The bad part about it is that we do not sometimes know who some of the people that talk to us look like. At least in the "old days" you knew who you were talking to as in, knew what they looked like. This whole tec thing has changed the way schools are looked …show more content…
What is school really teaching kids these days? Are they teaching things that will actually help these children get through life as a little less stressful, but what they are teaching them is the question. They know any type of math equation that you can ever through at them but if you happen to get a child that is "book smart" to lay down on the ground to change a tire, they may look at you funny. Highschoolers are learning skills that there parents learned in college. Have we met our match in the way life is teaching us the so call "important"
When people think about school, most think of the blackboard with the nasty, dirty eraser, or the famous apple on the desk with a worm in it icon, but what …show more content…
Stranger danger was one of our worst nightmares and it haunted us in our dreams, but what we don't notice, is that back "then" strangers were actual live people. You saw them in person and if they started to talk to you, you would either kick him in the face or run like crazy. "Now" kids still have the same problem, but it is not the same so to speak. In fact, its way different because the use of technology. Children now have a tendency to meet more people on line than they might ever meet in person! This is what we would call meeting strangers nowdays. The bad part about it is that we do not sometimes know who some of the people that talk to us look like. At least in the "old days" you knew who you were talking to as in, knew what they looked like. This whole tec thing has changed the way schools are looked …show more content…
What is school really teaching kids these days? Are they teaching things that will actually help these children get through life as a little less stressful, but what they are teaching them is the question. They know any type of math equation that you can ever through at them but if you happen to get a child that is "book smart" to lay down on the ground to change a tire, they may look at you funny. Highschoolers are learning skills that there parents learned in college. Have we met our match in the way life is teaching us the so call "important"