Kids should learn about taxes and other important life lessons. However musical studies help kids a lot. It improves memory, hand eye coordination, increases grey matter in their brains, improves fine motor skills…all sorts of benefits come from learning a musical instrument. Plus once they can actually play you’ll have a live in classical jukebox.

A kid who complains about not learning taxes in school. Would never of paid attention in those classes in school.

Most people learn recorder around 8-10 years old. I don't know why you would want to learn taxes at that age.

Schools teach mathematics, reading comprehension, and how to follow instructions. With those 3 skills people can do their taxes. We used to do it with a paper form and a paper book full of instructions. Now there are programs that do pretty much everything for you, all you need to do is answer questions. If you can't figure out how to do taxes then you have a bigger problem than the schools not directly teaching you how. As far as understanding all of the intricacies of US tax law, that is a much larger, more complex issue than they would or could reach in general education. There are entire university programs for that education.

Absurd. We should never replace the arts with Home Economics. Two different things. Maybe less time should be spent in those Bush Era textbooks.

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Do people laugh out loud at this kind of joke? Without being judgmental, I never find myself tickled by this setup.

Did you guys not have at least basic lessons about how your country works? And were they from the same teacher who did primary school music lessons?

Never ever replace arts, its why most kids enjoy school. but instead, create a semester long class called life that is required every year.

• year 9, we pay bills, get paid work for the 45min classes to earn wages.
• year 10, you’re now paying bills AND trying to buy a house.
• Year 11, yeah, shit gets real: we OWN a fuckin house! and shits breaks, but you also have kids and your dumbass never went to college… oh and you somehow decide randomly you belong in WSB.
• Year 12, Retirement, learning how to live on a measly $3000 a month for $5000 of bills.

clearly, we’d reward kids for taking college levels, but also trades. but you’d learn how to buy a house, trade stocks, pay bills with what you have…

Over a decade ago in our high school we had a personal finance class in 1st year; we learned about tracking stocks, limited budgeting, how to fill out a check and that was really it. However, nobody cared and why should we? We couldn't even work until 16 years old and we were 14 and you can't get stocks until 18. If it were at around 3rd year then it would have been more relevant.

Most of this stuff is now obsolete due to technology anyway. I rarely cash in checks but all I do is just take it to cash checking. No name signing, just give them the check, get photo taken, and get the money.

Taxes is the only thing that isn't obsolete and should be taught at some point somewhere. Sure, some of it is just copying numbers but then there's tax deductibles and running a business that requires quarterly taxes when over $1k.

To be fair, at the time you’re learning the recorder, you’re doing basic arithmetic. You gotta wait to get into advanced arithmetic before learning to do your taxes.

Because first graders are really going to carry those lessons onward 🙄

School also doesn't teach you how to get dressed or wipe your ass but you still learned how to do those things.

Some things are supposed to be taught to you by your parents. There was nothing stopping any of us from sitting down with our parents and learning how to do taxes which is exactly how I learned about it.

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