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They teach the metric system in the US. All of my math and science classes (at public schools in Texas in the 90s) were taught in metric.

They didn't even touch on that stuff in my school until one of the senior (or junior) year classes.

Except they don't actually teach history. True history is multi-disciplinary and isn't strictly limited to "name the battle that changed X" or "name the guy who did Y, and where was he from?". Knowing WHAT without knowing WHY is entirely useless. I blame the influence of the geographers. While they're a perfectly…

Yep. I had a lesson about the stock market in 5th grade but everything else was just basic "don't spend more than you have, duh!" stuff. Seriously, until I went to college and chatted with my parents and bought some basic finance books I didn't even know there was a "good" kind of debt!

I went to a very poor high school (that's ambiguous so let me say it mostly applied in both senses) but we did learn how to apply for a job and basic money management. And, weirdly, basic economics. The teacher was one of the good ones at the school, too.

I rarely work register at my job (I'm usually a stocker/floor help) and I had to take my first check a few days ago. The process is so convoluted that the cashier I'd taken over for so she could have her fifteen minute break had to run out and help me because the machine thought telling me "insert form" meant I'd know…

I was in maybe 3rd grade during the 70s when the last big attempt at teaching the metric system happened here, one day we were learning units of measurement and the next thing you knew it was "nevermind, back to the old way!" It really is like learning a new language, where your brain lets you understand it and follow…

I think they got it right. Communications skills and social skills are thought in schools, so they didn't make this list. This is what you wish they had thought in school. School is where kids go to gain social skills, above anything else. I think this is an awesome starting point.

Oh, that's interesting. Makes sense, I guess, since they're designed to go to lifehacker.com—which, in the UK, would redirect you. I can't promise anything but I'll let our tech team know and see if there's anything we can do about that.