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‘School Never Taught Us About Taxes,' Says Woman Who Wouldn’t Remember It Even If They Had (reductress.com)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (9 children)

School in Norway teaches you basic woodworking, how to cook and in math we even had an assignment where we had to find a job and create a monthly/yearly budget based on that job, taking into account loan from car, house, etc...

Does the US have nothing like that?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago

The important thing to realize here is that "does the US..." is almost a meaningless category to ask about (at least as far as education is concerned), because each of the 50 different states manages its schooling requirements very differently. Potential course offerings and curriculum are often completely the authority of the individual school districts. So it's almost impossible to ask any given sweeping generalization question about the US school system.

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