- The principal aim of this report is to assess how useful the currently undergoing programmes for equipping students with real life skills are to students after they leave their routine of full time education and venture into a working life. The final section will make recommendations as to how these programmes could be improved.
- The school I study at at the moment is not very precise on their 'real life skills' education program, which is made clear to its students by the lack of a ordered plan or consistent schedules. The classes are scarce and plenty of students find themselves not being able to attend them since they overlap with their weekly schedule. Although the ones who do get to be present at these extra curricular classes do say they have learned something new, it would only seem fit that all the students have the same opportunity. Myself, I have only been able to attend 2 out of the 5 classes arranged this year and all because I am in classes I can't skip.
- The classes do explore uncharted territory for us high school students and certainly do give us knowledge that is of extreme importance for our future endeavours. These programmes set goals that explore the basic adult life concepts such as taxes, how to vote (even with small insights into the political status of our country), college loans and appliance, banking, emergency first response, and many other subjects, which students find appealing.
- Clearly, it is not a matter of subjects to approach that our current program lacks, but rather a better organisation of it. I would make the following recommendations:
- Taking in account all attending students' schedules;
- A beforehand announcement of schedules so that any problem can be taken up to the responsible by students that wish to attend said classes;
- Regular classes, instead of few and scattered all over the year, since it would make for a better learning rhythm.
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