1. Financial literacy: you mean math? Because you can’t learn about balancing your checkbook, budgeting, or calculating discounts, if you don’t know the basic principals of math.

2. Mental health: I get it the mental health curriculums they have NOW are bs and don’t teach anything…(this isn’t up for discussion sitting children in front of a computer screen while strangers tell them how to handle their feelings isn’t effective)

HOWEVER, writing teaches you how to express yourself and elaborate, and gives you an avenue to organize your thoughts and ideas. Once you have them organized seeking mental health assistance, talking about it to a friend or loved one, or just letting it out becomes possible.

3. Taxes: Taxes don’t make sense if you don’t know how to calculate percentages.

4. Time management: Most of you were: going to school, in a club or sport, working, doing homework and projects all in the span of a week. If you were balancing all of those things you were learning hands-on how to manage time. Also when your teachers begged you to bring a planner to organize yourself it wasn’t just pestering. It was so they could teach you tips and tricks. ALSO, most teachers SHOW you how to organize yourself. When they put schedules, assignments and home work on the board it’s to show YOU how to organize yourself. THATS THE TRICK.

5. Acts of kindness: art, history, writing, social studies, p.e they all teach about sharing, right and wrong, owning up to your mistakes, teamwork, perseverance. Seeing your teachers help each other out, that teacher that would let you hang out in their classroom for lunch so you wouldn’t have to sit in the loud lunchroom, the after school clubs, collecting money and donating canned goods to people in need over the holidays or during storms or crisis. When your friend’s parents couldn’t pick them up because of work though they’re sick and the teacher coddles them while keeping up with the lesson.

Kindness is taught by watching others perform acts of kindness.