PART 1:Why isn’t school preparing us for real life

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my elementary school actually taught us how to do taxes (kid appropriate ofc) in 5th grade and also gives us a lot of information about our own mental and physical health so we actually know about this stuff

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in my elementary school are teacher taught us about all the taxes and budgeting and all that stuff because she said that no one ever taught kids that and its helpful❤️

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