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Real history that explains how existing power structures came to exist. Not the bullshit history that schools teach, which is just wrote memorization and usually ignorant of the most important themes of class struggle.

Cooking, efficient cleaning, basic repairs

Cooking, each generation is losing the skill.

Morality, mostly. School is okay at teaching information, but is pretty bad at teaching behavior and mindset.

I'd say argumentation. How to structure and analyse an argument, find flaws and questioning ideas.

I would have also said "proper source finding and research", "how to analyse a texts" and "cooking/diet" but thinking back, that was taught or atleast attempted but not done in a way that i understood its intend and reason until now. These also are probably only done in my country/state/school and due to my teachers

patience, empathy, and compound interest.

As a teacher for a decade. Read a clock, understand geography, science activities, history activities. We teach out of a manual now, and it's all so the admins can jerk off to higher scores for ELA and Math.

• financial literacy
  • teach them what money means and what their time is worth
• philosophy
  • teach them about multifaceted perspectives, there isn't good vs evil but multiple shades of gray
• resiliency
  • impose upon them that failure only happens when you learn nothing from your mistakes, everything else is just a setback
• health and medical
  • teach them about their body, what it means to eat nutrient rich meals, and first aid
• self-reliance
  • when you're the only person with a clue, you're your only hope, be your own advocate and rely on your own skills and judgment

all the other things like ethics, empathy, emotional IQ, constructive thought, etc will fall into place with a basic understanding of the above. the point is to challenge them and provide a support system for when they fall.

Financial literacy and responsibility, life skills: laundry, dishes, vacuuming, hygiene, cooking and recipe reading. General well being, teach them to be somewhat physical regularly and exercise with them to promote it more so.

Critical thinking skills - they’re actually very difficult to teach and constantly incorporating them into everyday life is super important

Compound Interest.

and

If it seems to good to be true, you're probably getting scammed.

Media literacy, financial responsibility, mutual aid, critical thinking and critical analysis, reciprocity, playing music.

Confidence in self-sustainability.

I don't know what a better word would be. I'm not talking about making some self sustaining homestead or whatever, just the act of creating, building, repairing or designing something without having a guide to tell you how to do it.

You know, "draw the rest of the owl", but I'm dead serious. Just draw that fucking owl. You don't need someone to show you how or to guide your hand through all the steps.

Emotional regulation and understanding. Most people never learn this either at schools or elsewhere.

probably doing thier taxes, getting jobs and look at the job markets for many industries, something Public schools and even colleges are allergic to even discussing about. additionally, getting participation grades will not help you succeed in college, which is partially the k-12 districts fault, because students bring in the assumption that they will get easy As,Bs in certain college courses only to wash out even from CC. also discussing how military recruiters lurk around schools or public places to prey on the disadvantaged.

Schools are obsessed with academics because they tend to be more easily measurable. Therefore, they are spending less time building character, morals, and thinking skills. Teaching them how to be a good person is more important than ever.

That being agreeable is one of the greatest cheats in life. No matter how much you know on something, or how smart you are, if your personality sucks you won't get very far.

So many talented and skilled people I know failed because they just would not work with other people very well. It's extremely rare to be an individual talent skilled enough to overcome that barrier, so at least work on yourself a little bit so you don't die from pride.

Resiliency. From a military perspective, if you care, I was told that generals are complaining about a lack of resiliency. People go to boot camp and make a mistake but they don't have the resiliency to fix their mistake and move on.

I think it comes from parents not wanting their kids to go through any bad experiences. They need to get comfortable being uncomfortable. I have noticed it with my family, but I don't have any kids so who am I to make judgements.

The importance of savings and investments, especially when you're young.

I teach all of my kids that "no" is a complete sentence. I want them to be very conscious of consent, but I also want them all to respect their own wishes.

Unrelated, I also teach them all how to throw a good punch and keep their god damned hands up and chin down as soon as I think they have enough self control not to abuse it.

So many daily small thzate kinda impossible to teach a whole class, but are easy to teach a single child (source: I work in a school):

• reading the clock. May sound weird, but some kids get it really early and quickly, some take more time. Thus pretty frustrating to teach the whole class
• tying shoes (I know too many kids with 8 or 9 years old who can't tie a knot, shoes are a good starter)
• generally small motor skills (crafts, crochet, weaving, whatever you want...)

And the one thing that school cannot teach and is also very difficult for parents: questioning authority

This.

and for elementary school

More important than ever: media literacy (and critical thinking).
While it seems the theory and application is taught in school nowadays, i think it's mostly about keeping the critical thinking going every time you hear news or any information especially from friends and family.
We tend to believe stupid things if people we trust tell us. And if you have the foundations of critical thinking since your childhood it's much easier to accept that your thinking is / was wrong and change it. There are enough people whose mind can't be changed even with evidence or good reasoning.

Talking with children about why something is communicated the way it is, which parts can be trusted and which not, which problems it has and so on is very important. And especially not focusing on your own political / moral / religious view in those situations. You love religion X? Don't believe everything they say just because of that. You hate political party Y? Don't think everything they say is automatically a lie just because of that.

Do not pay for drugs in advance.