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Aye, I can think of nothing that would suck more than attending Adult Life Skills classes. I most certainly wouldn't have chosen it. However, the point is these kids were given a choice of whatever lessons they wanted.

They did something similar at my school back in the early 90's. Thurdsay afternoons were "free" for 5th and 6th years. You could do supervised "study" in pretty much any of the departments. Most folks bummed about in the art department or played 5 a side football or did band practice. A few did something more practical/useful like a course on car maintainance with one of the techy teachers. I did an NVQ in photography (proper light and chemicals photography). NOBODY did Adult Life Skills! We'd have bullied the fuck out of them until they wised-up if they'd tried.
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It could be argued both ways. Neither the younger nor the older generation seem to have figured it out. Human memory is unreliable, and human decision-making is often irrational.

Individuality isn't something that can be taught in an Adult Life Skills course. If you don't have a developed personality, you suffer. Anyone can learn to cook an omelette or program a washing machine from a 2-minute Youtube video. It won't help you if, say, you're in your 20s and it suddenly hits you that the world isn't your oyster after all. You could be stuck in a dead-end job and have no personality or interests, or you might have them, but have no idea where to start. Because you can't learn the guitar from a 2-minute Youtube video. You can't learn an interesting and impractical language from the community college. And you wouldn't know where to start, replacing a motorcycle tyre (and it would seem such a long way away, if you've always liked the idea of bikes but have never even ridden one let alone own one). So you go back to your computer games and find out they aren't enough to fill the void.

I have a theory that real Adult Life Skills are thought of as threats to productivity in some way, so you don't find them in schools or colleges. Yet you can find books on motorcycle maintenance in the gardening shop, around my way. Free classes in painting for the retired, etc. They (schools, government, etc.) don't care what you do once your vital energy and your best years are behind you. Fred Dibnah restored a steamroller at his home, in his spare time. There seems to be far less tolerance of individuality in these times. If they could stuff you (young people) into a cardboard box and still have you being productive, they would. And so much the better if you blame your parents/grandparents for all your ills, rather than overpopulation and social policy... They've even got pet names for them, e.g. boomers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K02X3jRxblU

Sorry, got a bit off-topic.

[Nobby the Bastard]

My wife says I really need to do an adult life skills course cause i don't have any.
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