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Part of why so many key industries are *so* dependent on immigrants is that our schools have an oddly narrow view of what kids can do with their lives. They aren't told they could, like, buy a gas station.
— ππππ π― (@atlanticesque) March 3, 2025
American public schools subtly imply that all jobs are email or retail.
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neighbors are heads down asleep until high school graduation then suddenly think they have a meaningful opinion on the school system lmao
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Truantcels be like "why didn't they teach taxes in school?"
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unironically they now teach taxes in high school
source: conversation this week with my zoomer offspring
(don't worry, he's white)
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Schools have been teaching taxes for years, r-slurs on the internet just didn't pay attention.
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We didn't have a class with it, even the optional personal finance class as far as I knew, but we had 10,000 other things redditors constantly claim they never encountered.
K-12 still needs a massive overhaul though, including teaching lots of things I heard rightoids sneer that kids should have learned at home.
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We filled out a fake 1040 in an optional microecon class that I took in HS but we spent 15 minutes on it total and it wasn't part of the curriculum, the teacher was just neurodivergent (she was really good for a high school teacher but also kinda weird)
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red seperoth de dubai told me they don't
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of course they do idiot, they have a personal finance class in most highschools.
this isn't 1732 get a grip u old strag
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Aite grandpa
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God, that shit pisses me off. Leaving aside the fact that most schools have some sort of "personal finance" course at some point, a class in taxes specifically would be completely pointless, even if every single student paid attention like their lives depended on it.
!fincels, for 95% of the population, basic recordkeeping and arithmetic are sufficient to do their taxes. 95% of the 5% this doesn't apply to make enough money that they can and should hire an accountant. The remaining 0.25% of people that aren't well-off, but have complicated taxes anyway, are both the only people who actually need help and the only people who can't possibly be served by some generalized high school course in filling out paperwork.
The insistence that schools should "teach kids about taxes" is just another example of !peakpoors trying to abdicate responsibility for the problems in their lives. They'd rather blame the system than crunch some numbers for a couple hours once a year.
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We had those classes too. The problem is that a 14 year old doesn't give a fuuuuck about taxes.
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I don't remember doing anything more complicated than what TurboTax already does for you
I do remember spending a week learning how to "balance a checkbook" though lmao
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