Originally Posted by
Bend alot
I have been a advocate for Basic Life Skills to be taught in schools as a core for many years - that includes understanding government/s and the agencies including tax and business.
It takes me back to my year 11 maths teacher, he was a pakistani, we called him Pakki Jones. He unknown to us at the time was an extraordinary math teacher. We didn't care about maths , we didn't want to be there, we wanted to get out of school and do it our way, like most teenagers. This is how he got our undivided attention. OK he said clearly you don't want to know anything about maths, lets do the very first thing you will need to know when you leave school, he pulled out a stack of Individual Tax Return Forms. We waded through it in sheer horror, whats a tax file number, oh that you have to apply for one of those it will be with you for the rest of your life. He became the schools most respected and best teacher of all time. (our time)