Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
Every high school in the country should be required to teach a mandatory course (for both sexes) in common sense where they're forced to memorize such stuff as:

Never remove the cap from a radiator from which steam is escaping.

A teaching aid might include a clapped-out car the instructor could use to teach them which part is the radiator.

It's a good idea but I think we're already past the time when we could find instructors capable of teaching the course.
I'm in 100% agreement with you Marv. My personal belief is that less emphases should be placed on things like football, basketball and soccer to name a few and more placed on real world things the kids are going to face once they are out of school. As you said these things need to be taught to both male and females and every other drummed up imaginary gender they can dream up.
Everyone needs to at least know the basics of how to prepare food for themselves, and I don't mean just shoving it in a nuke to heat it up. Although even knowing the precautions of using those things is way beyond the knowledge of far too many in todays world.
They need to know how to create and maintain a weekly/ monthly/ yearly budget, and why the buy now pay later trap is not always a good thing. Credit cards are only good if you have the means to pay them off at will.
When it comes to knowing the basics of preventive maintenance on a vehicle, just knowing and understanding how to read the owners manual would go a long way.
Those things even have pictorials to guide them through the procedures, I'm pretty sure there is probably an app they can download to their phone for the more illiterates.