Prepare Tomorrow’s Parents Month
If there’s anything children need to learn in school more than physics, chemistry, Chaucer, or how to pass standardized tests, it’s childcare. Statistics show that the majority of them will eventually become parents, while the majority will not become astrophysicists. (Schools are pretty famous for not preparing people for things that they will really experience in life, after all; not that these subjects are not important for the few who go on to actually use them in life.) It’s kind of ridiculous that students are required to take so many math, science, English, and social studies credits—at least a third of which, if not more, they will not be using in life—while childcare, cooking, money budgeting, and other life skills courses are “optional.”
