How would you feel about school taking up an extra hour every day to teach basic "adult stuff" like washing clothes, basic cooking, paying taxes?

I taught an intro freshman course to college students at a prestigious university. The course was about the basics of applying to jobs: writing a cover letter, writing a resume, having an interview, sending thank you notes, etc.

The students had obviously never received constructive criticism before, and largely refused to handle any edits with professionalism. They obviously viewed their instructors as customer service representatives, and actually the only one who acted politely and professionally turned out to be the only one who ended up cheating, on an assignment about ethics. The truth is, teenagers don't want to be adults. Adults only do bare minimum adult things like taxes and laundry because we literally have to because of society but a teenager with no consequences? Yeah that's a hard pass for them.

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