📚 Parents Prioritize Real-World Education Over Traditional Schooling #464

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The provided texts discuss parental concerns regarding the adequacy of traditional schooling in preparing children for “real-world” challenges. A survey of over 1,000 families reveals that a low percentage of parents feel confident in schools’ ability to teach essential life skills like financial literacy, critical thinking, and job readiness. Consequently, a significant number of parents are proactively supplementing their children’s education with outside resources, often motivated by perceived political or ideological biases in school curricula. The sources highlight the Tuttle Twins books and related materials as a solution, offering tools that foster real-world knowledge, strong values, and independent thinking in areas such as economics and personal responsibility, thereby empowering parents to shape their children’s worldview.

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🎧 New episode alert! We're reviewing a survey revealing only 10% of parents trust schools to prepare kids for post-graduation life. Discover major gaps in financial literacy, critical thinking, and job readiness. Learn how over half of families are supplementing education due to political/ideological bias concerns. We'll also explore how Tuttle Twins resources foster real-world knowledge, values, and independent thinking. Tune in!

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📚 Parents Prioritize Real-World Education Over Traditional Schooling #464

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