I think that there is definitely more room within schools for practical, real life education. I think things like budgeting, sewing/mending, cooking, music/singing, resume writing, relationships...are all good things to be covered - NOT because it is the school's sole responsibility to teach those things, but because a fact of life is that not all parents are good at ALL those things. I'm quite good at music, but it wasn't my parents who taught me that, I nurtured that at school. In the same way, some parents can't budget, some have poor communication skills, others can't read a map to save their lives.

I believe that education is the parent's responsibility. I send my child to school, and which school I send them to depends on what I want them to learn there. I then teach them at home what they don't learn at school, and communicate with them to find out what they're learning at school.

Good thought provoking article though.