What would you like to see school's teach?

[Welshwoman]

10+ budgeted nutritional recipes cooked from scratch
(I despair at having to pre-prepare all the ingredients for my son at the moment )

How to be a good consumer along the lines of how interest rates work on mortgages and credit cards and basic consumer law
( I know its taught in theory in maths but I would like a separate lesson on financial management the course should be written by Martin Lewis !)

Sign language. From infants. Even to a basic communication level. I think it would open up the world completely

senua - yourself!
You should aim your comment at the Headteacher and the school's curriculum manager. It's not strictly the class teachers' job. Ask about it- I'm sure they'd be happy to tell you.

Those posters that worry about the time needed to do all this - well, some skills are 'built in' to good teaching and others are taught in the citizenship and/or phse lessons that are timetabled each week. We also do a lot of work via the tutor time at the beginning of the day (team-building, organisational skills, brain-training, buddying, etc)

I would like to see some parents taught how to interact with teachers. Mainly because I'm sick of trying to help students only to be called a 'c-nt' by the parents.

I would like teachers to be able to teach English and maths and not keep being loaded down with all sorts of other things from budgeting to how to handle a baby for a day.

All the other things are good and could be taught at youth club or somewhere else on that level. Or perhaps even parents could tach there dc how to budget or how to cook. If they cant already do those things then get them to learn together in a community center.

and who's going to ensure they do this? the whole point of drives like these are that some parents, even many in some areas, aren't doing it.

see my post of 17th April 13.55 and twinset's of 13.57

I would like children to be taught about the history of democracy and civil rights. They need to know that people fought and died for the right to vote and that you have to work for a decent society, it isn't a given. Right from Magna Carta through the Glorious Revolution and the struggle for universal suffrage in the 19th/20th centuries and beyond.

Help them to appreciate that what they have didn't come easy and if they want to have a stake in society, they need to carry on the fight.

I mean, how many people know about the Lancashire cotton workers supporting the slaves it the US, to the point of starvation?