Please understand that most of the comments below are tongue in cheek. Besides, we can't teach child development in HS - what, you want to imply that teenagers should become parents in HS?

>>How about making a child development class a HS graduation requirement?
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>What will we NOT be doing in schools?
>We started with the 3 R's.
Now it's teaching to the standardized tests

>Then there was Phys Ed.
>There there was Health
Had to get rid of it, it taught a minor form of sex education (This is a boy, this is a girl)

>Then there was "Home Economics" aka cooking.
Got rid of it, too expensive - no interest

>Then there was Civics.
Got rid of it, no one wants to learn about civility

>Then there was Woodworking (aka Shop)
too expensive, besides no one needs training in blue collar/hands on work, everyone will go to college

>Then there was Music.
too expensive, got rid of it

>Then there was Art.
too expensive, got rid of it

>Then there was Theater.
too expensive, got rid of it - besides WAY too many of 'them folk' in theater

>Then there was Driver's Ed.
too much liability to the school - got rid of it

>Then there was sex education (someday I hope that someone plots a timeline that correlates promiscuity with public school sex education)
WHAT!!?!!! LALALALALALALCAN'THEARYOULALALALALALA

Never mind that study after study shows that sex education lowers rate of SDT's, raises age of first sexual activity, lowers teen pregnancy rate


>Then there were guidance counsellors
>Then there were nutritionists
>Then there was grief counselling
>Then there was "after school" aka day care. (my grandsons used that)
>When I went to vote this year at the elementary school there was a sign saying the this was a "No Bullying Zone" so we now have bullying prevention.
>It's also a drug free zone, so we have drug prevention.
>It's also a tobacco free zone so we have smoking prevention.
>There are armed guards walking the halls in the middle schools and the high schools in the district.
>There are nurses on staff in the district
>There's a psychiatrist on staff in the district.
>
>What the hell, we might as well throw in Child Development!
>
>Hmm I wonder why we spend so much on schools and yet our kids are struggling with Math and Science?