Phil asks if we should teach rudimentary law as a language in high school (like Spanish or French). Micah and K Sera discuss their education experiences.
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K Sera’s Afterthoughts:
- Should “legalese” be a subject offered in our public education system? Yeah, I think it would be a great high school elective course. Make it required? Hm… no. Maybe have it count as a language credit or an English/writing credit depending on how you structure the class.
- Logic should be a required course, darn it!
- Adult me likes the idea of year round school. Maybe with shorter days or have longer breaks interspersed throughout the year so families can still plan vacations. Three months off seems unnecessary. Way too long.
- Was there something I was forgetting? Music stuff? Pish. Never mind that.
Phil’s Afterthoughts:
-This episode was originally recorded in very early days of 2021 (January), the thing we are alluding to “of the common peasant learning the rules” was about the GME stock and how retail investors were striking back against hedge fund managers that were shorting the market.
-After re-listening to this episode (from almost a year later from publication) my feelings have changed on this subject matter. Since the release of this episode we have had some high profile court cases (constitutional and prosecutorial) where it would be nice understanding the context of state versus federal law (and expectations). But, while it is a “nice to have” the jury is still out if it is a “must have” subject to be taught to our fellow Americans.
-When we talk about the public education system in Minnesota (and by extension the rest of the 49 states) I would argue that children that are graduating today we less equipped to survive in the modern economy compared to even a decade ago. To make matters worse, many high school graduates end up having to learn remedial courses that should have been taught or learned in K-12 in college (and that’s for the fortunate folk that can afford the debt to go to college). Perhaps adding another elective isn’t the solution we are looking for.