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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Like they didn't use words we want to understand because our brains are still developing and stuff like that

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