Submitted on Wednesday 24th March 2021
Rejected on Tuesday 30th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Start teaching young people how to pay taxes, and how other adulthood tasks work
Nowhere in the school curriculum is there an area about teaching young people about how things work once you step into the ‘real world’ (post education). The majority of young people have no idea how to pay their taxes, how a pension works, how to apply for a mortgage, or what tax bands are.
The government should help its young people and start teaching them the things they need to know, not the things the schooling system wants them to know. Help our young people prepare for adult life by giving them a stepping stone into how things work. Include this in the school curriculum at high school age, and children won’t have to learn how to do all of these things by themselves, when they’re thrown into life.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand you are concerned about opportunities for life skills and financial education at secondary school, however students can already be taught about personal finances and economics through the Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) curriculum.
You can read more about the PSHE curriculum here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-social-health-and-economic-education-pshe/personal-social-health-and-economic-pshe-education.
If there are other skills you'd like to be taught as part of the National Curriculum, you could start a petition clearly setting out what they are
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