What are the most important things you wish they would have taught you in high school?

What do you wish your school had taught you? That’s what The View’s host asked on a recent episode.

I believe that Sunny mentioned she wanted the schools to teach kids about money management. Joy said she wished they had taught you how to file your income taxes.

I don’t recall what each host said, but the one about taxes was memorable because my school covered how to file taxes.

I am pretty sure my Political Science class taught us to prepare taxes, write a check, and balance a checkbook. Those skills have been very beneficial to me for many years when I prepared my own and other people’s taxes. That is all I remember of the entire course. I recall that I was not too fond of the course and was on the verge of failing it.

I acquired many talents in school that I value to this day.

I learned to cook, drive, type on a manual typewriter, sew by hand, operate a sewing machine, sex education, and I took an African American Studies class at a predominately white school in the 1970s.

I am pleased I learned to type since today, more than ever, you need keyboard proficiency. My friend J, you can read about J here, has often remarked that she never learned to type and still doesn’t type very well. I texted J the other day to ask her when two spaces changed to one space after a period. She responded, I’m not sure; I don’t type. It was decades ago, according to Google, when people stopped using typewriters. Is it just me who was still putting two spaces after a period?

I can’t remember much from my high school typing course. I wasn’t a fast typist, but I’ve gotten a lot better since then. Once, an administrator came to get me out of typing class, and I was permitted to leave because my nephew, who was one month old at the time, had passed away. I believe my sister was there to take me home.

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