Parents Beware: Schools No Longer Teach Important Skill
58Schools Do Not Teach This Skill Any Longer
I was telling my adult daughter how much easier school was when she attended school than when I attended school. I told her kids today do not understand that because they do not have a clue about school when I attended. They used to teach us important skills. As I was going through the skills I retain to this day, she told me something I did not know about schools today: SCHOOLS NO LONGER TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO SURVIVE ATOMIC BOMB ATTACKS!
Parents, especially parents my daughter's age, please, please, please pass this information on to your children since the schools, apparently, no longer feel the need to do so.
HOW TO SURVIVE AN ATOMIC BOMB ATTACK
1. Immediately upon hearing the atomic bomb sirens, or seeing a brilliant flash of light followed by a mushroom cloud rising in the distance, get away from all windows, lie flat on the ground, and cover your head with your arms to prevent getting vaporized.
2. If you don't get vaporized, get to the local fallout shelter as soon as possible. If you cannot get to the fallout shelter, go to the basement and stock up on canned foods and plenty of water. Cover any windows with cardboard and duct tape to prevent more fallout than is going to get in anyway.
3. Fallout will appear on the canned foods as dust. Do not blow the fallout off the cans; rather, use a cloth to pick up the fallout. A used t-shirt will do, but you may want to use a couple of t-shirts over the duration of your stay. (You probably should also put a lid or cap on the water, now that I think about it.)
4. Wait two to three weeks for the fallout to go away, but you should expect a very different life when you emerge, unless you have an understanding employer.
I would like to add this to that: Fallout shelters have limited space. If you have a miserable life going anyway, PLEASE save the space for those of us who want to live.
It gripes me that schools today are not teaching this important information. It makes me wonder what schools are teaching children today!
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Hi Jean,
Thanks for the comment. Education, like nostalgia, isn't what it used to be!
Most schools are so old, and all those layers and layers of lead paint, kinda act as a defacto bombshelter
Our public schools use whole language word guessing/memorization, so I taught my daughter to read using intensive phonics. The schools here use invented spelling, so I taught her the spelling rules. The schools do not teach, or correct grammar or puntuation. My child's sixth grade teacher said the reason for no grammar or punctuation instruction was that "they will all have jobs where they use computer grammar checkers and spell checkers when they grow up."
Penmanship was never brought up in our schools. In first grade the kids were told to trace the block letters in the workbook but, at the same time, were instructed to write in D'Nealian style letters. Their writing was a mess.
Our children were told "not" to write in paragraphs. Each year the teacher was just concerned with getting ideas down on paper in their journals. Each year we were told that correcting the mechanics of writing would hinder the child's creativity.
I taught the mechanics and corrected my child's writing, and I sent the papers back to the teacher corrected. Many of my child's teachers couldn't spell and used terrible grammar.
The fourth grade teacher asked me to audio tape each student, individually, reading two paragraphs from their fourth grade reader. Many of the 26 children could read the first, memorized paragraph, but only two children could actually read the paragraph that they had not seen before. The two children were my child and her friend, who had also been taught to read by his parents.
A district reading consultant visited my daughter's sixth grade class and apologized for their not having been given enough phonics instruction. Then she proceeded to attempt to explain to them how to "sound out" words like cat. My daughter, who had been reading, via intensive phonics, since she was four years old, said that, after that particular day, phonics was never brought up in the classroom again.
I had friends who paid for tutors after school hours. They bought education programs to use at home. They did what they could to suppliment their children's education. And our school district is advertised as one of the best in Michigan.
Most of my daughter's friends remained poor spellers who hated to read through high school.
Now, if they have computers, they rely on abbreviated emails and texts.
Cursive handwriting is a skill that used to be taught in school when school was there for imparting the knowledge to use basic skills.
The loss of penmanship is also adding to the fact that people do not peronally communicate any longer. Gone are the days of hand written thank you notes. What a shame.
Those were something you saved.
I have a younger relative who has informed the family that she does not have the time to call any of us and only communicates via email. We have all but lost communication with her.
Heaven help us if the power goes out for long.
Hi Carol! Thank you for the comment about the changes in schools. It is a shame that little things - like writing skills - are thought to hinder creativity. I find run-on paragraphs quite difficult to understand, and often have to read a sentence aloud to figure out what the author is trying to say.
I wonder what is so difficult about knowing the difference between "to, too, and two." I wonder if an author knows what he or she is saying when he or she "could care less." I wonder what a "beck and call" is, knowing that it truly is a "beckon call."
One day someone will find all these computers and wonder what they were used for. They will probably conclude that we decorated with them, and wonder why we didn't record history!
Jean Ahmann says:
18 months ago
Not only do they not teach how to survive an atomic attack, but they do not teach cursive handwriting. Plus English is taught as a second language. I was never taught to duck and cover but my husband as well as my parents were. I just figured if you saw it it did not matter anyways cause you were toast.