Show Highlight- Skills That Matter
Sarah and Vinnie Full Show
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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The skills our kids learn in school that we actually think matter!
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| 0:00.0 | Let's do it! Let's go! Wake up every morning with Sarah and Vinnie! |
| 0:03.1 | No! In the hail! |
| 0:04.6 | Alessette 973. |
| 0:06.3 | The skills kids learn in school that we think are the most valuable, |
| 0:11.2 | are spelling, grammar, cooking, typing, and how to write a check. |
| 0:19.0 | You know, I'm gonna tell you something because I was one of the first people |
| 0:23.6 | I discovered the excuse that this this math won't work in my day-to-day life ever. |
| 0:29.3 | Why bother with it? I was the one who started that excuse for not learning math. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, Algebra, I heard that this kid out in California was like, |
| 0:37.4 | who's ever gonna use this for anything? |
| 0:42.2 | And I was like, wow, whoever that is, that kid's got a point. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah, well, it turns out that kid doesn't have a point and that kid should have taken more math |
| 0:51.8 | classes because that kid goes blank when numbers pop up anywhere. It's really, I don't know |
| 0:58.7 | why it's not on the list, but it needs to be. Learn math kids, it's important. |
| 1:05.7 | It can be very helpful. I think the most important math, for me, I use fractions all the time and |
| 1:12.2 | like, real simple geometry, like figuring out the circumference of a circle or something, |
| 1:15.9 | you know, like that stuff I use on a day-to-day, but then I have those formulas all written down, |
| 1:20.6 | so, you know, there they are, you plug in the numbers, get the answer. |
| 1:25.2 | A thousand adults were asked about 15 skills kids learn in school and how valuable each one is |
| 1:30.7 | once you're out in the real world, spelling was number one. Even though we have spell check |
| 1:37.2 | now, 95% say it's still useful. Yeah, Lucer. Grammar, high on the list, kids are definitely using |
| 1:46.6 | those rules while aren't using those rules while texting, but it will come in handy in the work place |
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