With the net and even Yahoo! answers, it’s getting harder for the for-profits to make a quick buck. Spam, phone, and internet scams are finding fewer helpless targets as people are warned when to and not to give away their sensitive account information. So I imagine there’s someone out there lobbying for some people NOT to be informed of these important tidbits of life, lest they loose their prey of unsuspecting victims…

I can’t say I agree with the money-hungry corporate jungle, I think it is imperative today’s youth be taught these life lessons: its a part of the socialization to become a functioning part of modern American society.

I just wonder if it shouldn’t be taught earlier. There was no “Life 101” class at my college, but I did learn interest management and good credit management information in my Survey of Math class. Interest, credit cards, and even taxes were also covered in my Economics class. And I learned important facts about how all areas of the government and how we as citizens interact with various government agencies in both my American Government class and my sociology class. One of the most valuable classes I took was Sociology of Organizations, which talked about everything from schools, to churches, to businesses, to corporations, to the state, federal and local governments. So I think I received a lot of this good information over my four years at University – what I worry about is those young people who choose not to go to college, which is a perfectly acceptable choice, but they may miss out on this information, whether it comes from various classes or this one “life studies” class. Actually, it’s often people who go off on their own young before their parents can really sit down and teach them this stuff that often end up with debt and those other problems.

I think this course should be taught at the High School level, so all the adolescents that will be our future can have that experience.

As for English composition, after reading some of the semi-literate stuff posted here, how can you diss it?

Same for Sociaology, Look at how many of the biases expressed here are based on ignorance.