Time to re-introduce national service?

[Mordac]

Isn't this a job for the parents?

Or "parent"?

[NotAllThere]

Huge portion of the adults are in debt, I doubt they will be a good role model/teachers to their offspring when it comes to budgeting, who need budgeting when there are credit cards...

Credit cards are great tools for budgeting. You can see exactly what's spent on what. Also, like when I was a poor permie and interest rates were high, they're handy for an interest-free rolling overdraft.

Isn't this a job for the parents?

Good one.

[Jog On]

Young people 'need help with independence' - BBC News

Education Secretary Damian Hinds was launching a project teaching teenagers "life skills", such as budgeting, sharing a house or coping with relationship problems.

FFS

Isn't this a job for the parents?

[BrilloPad]

Certainly one life skill to be taught about in school is debt.

Except for a mortgage, "never never" get into debt. Spend less than you earn.

Takes 30 seconds. Leaves plenty of time for how to calculate area of a circle.

[sal]

Huge portion of the adults are in debt, I doubt they will be a good role model/teachers to their offspring when it comes to budgeting, who need budgeting when there are credit cards...

[NotAllThere]

Education Secretary Damian Hinds was launching a project teaching teenagers "life skills", such as budgeting, sharing ...

I read that at first glance as "shaving" - perhaps in an attempt to prevent them becoming hipsters.

It could be included as part of the national curriculum - you know so that place where our kids go to learn all sorts of useful tulip actually includes some real life useful tulip.

Where I live, kids in the second and third tiers of mainstream education are taught how to do their tax returns. Kids in the top tier - destined for university - don't. I guess the idea is that they'll be able to afford to pay someone else to do it.

I'm pretty sure that budgeting was part of Domestic Science when I was at school.

[MasterBait]

Farage-Jugend

[meridian]

Young people 'need help with independence' - BBC News

Education Secretary Damian Hinds was launching a project teaching teenagers "life skills", such as budgeting, sharing a house or coping with relationship problems.

FFS

Why “FFS”? Kids should be taught this in schools, instead of (or in addition to) being taught how to calculate the area of a circle.

I know which one is more useful in everyday life....

[d000hg]

One only has to look around to see parents don't know much about budgeting or healthy relationships. The state shouldn't be teaching the latter but budgeting is just an application of basic arithmetic so seems a no-brainer to teach it.

As for nation service... you get told what to do and all your food and lodging is provided. I thought squaddies often found themselves bewildered when they left this lifestyle and had to figure out how to look after themselves? Isn't it genuinely a common problem for those leaving the forces?

[Mordac]

I'm too old for National Service, so yes, definitely bring it back...

[NigelJK]

I taught 16-19 YO in an iTec for a couple of years. We had to have 1 session per week on 'Social skills'. We rotated who presented them and we had a book of 'suggestions'. I never once used any of the examples in the boot as they were all to 'rose tinted specs'. One memorable session I picked a local issue (the plans to build a low security prison near Guildford) which had polarised the locals. Two sides had to argue their case. Those that were forced to be 'pro' were by far the most imaginative as they had no source material to work from, the 'cons' just used the local rag. Out come was that it should be built.

[BrilloPad]

Two years in Aldershot being shouted at by Shauny to peel spuds like a soldier is unlikely to foster a sense of independence.

It might teach them to be grateful to be out of it?

I thought parents were supposed to breed independants not dependants?

[Old Greg]

Young people 'need help with independence' - BBC News

Education Secretary Damian Hinds was launching a project teaching teenagers "life skills", such as budgeting, sharing a house or coping with relationship problems.

FFS

Two years in Aldershot being shouted at by Shauny to peel spuds like a soldier is unlikely to foster a sense of independence.

[original PM]

Maybe ..

Just fooking maybe

It could be included as part of the national curriculum - you know so that place where our kids go to learn all sorts of useful tulip actually includes some real life useful tulip.

Also where the fook are the parents at?

[BrilloPad]

Young people 'need help with independence' - BBC News

Education Secretary Damian Hinds was launching a project teaching teenagers "life skills", such as budgeting, sharing a house or coping with relationship problems.

FFS