No. Just a single word to say so!! Well, that, it depends, you know?

i think it should be there!because in future in any part of life it is needed!it helps to manage the young people.may be we are gen X but somwhere in life we have to play the role of parent…..and for today’s generation it must be….to lead a better life……….

It would be much more sensible to ensure that teachers have all been properly trained and taught something about how to look after children.Since they spend more time at school than being parented,children learn most of their child minding skills from watching how teachers deal with children. Parental responsibility and influence is always looked at unfavourably by people in authority.

I don’t think so. Some ppl don’t wanna be parents and they could be taking classes they need toward the career or lifeskills they want.

the class should be offered, but to the parents themselves, not the students. parents are quick to defend their children against teachers, no matter what the situation. let the parent go to school and see how their child acts all day, then send the parent to class.

no two kids are alike, so classes aren’t that good. my parents have been to classes in highschool and ever since they had children. it doesn’t work when you have one bipolar child, and one with a rare form of autism. there is no class that can prepare you to cope with my brothers.
on the other hand classes are good because if you can cope with the stress of a child, you are less likely to beat them like my parents do to me. i don’t know, but i think it should be up to the kids

yes it is very importtion for that education because there is alot of teen pregency and young teenagers don’t have a clue about what a new born baby is all about so that program will help with that

I think ya because you have to learn how to be a good parent. The parenting classes could just be the fine line of a perfect parent and a abusive or neglectful parent. If all students were requier to learn it no one would have an excuse for being a poor parent. I just finished a parenting class and I learned alot! I think it could make a BIG difference if it was requierd!

At that age students have enough internal resolutions to do over the environment, their body chemistry, relating with others, issues of identity and acceptance, peer pressure. I can go on and on. A formal course in parenting be an added stress on an already loaded existence. Even for mature adults parenting basics become useless because no two children are alike. You cannot use the criteria for one on another.Even twins would not accept being treated the same sometimes.
What impacts on our children..electronic as well as the print media (pushing violence, outrageous fashion, dance/music, sex, drugs, the occult etc etc) already create a strong current through which each child has to swim praying he/she will come up safe. There is more to parenting than what can ever be taught in a class. Unconditional love, compassion, discipline, companionship..just being there at every stage of life, building confidence sense of worth cannot be taught in class. Besides its only when you have a handle on yourself that you can be useful to another. High School is definitely not that time.

The high school my son attends has a course that deals with healthy living. This includes teaching “life skills” such as exercise, diet, environment, etc. It goes beyond a regular health class. Perhaps parenting skills could be put in with such a course. I remember seeing on the news when I was a teenager where some schools actually had teenagers toting flour bags around and treating it as if it were a baby. The people who participated in it loved the idea. It made them think twice about getting pregnant. Maybe that’s what we need today as part of a health course or a life skills course.