2019 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 126
BY SENATOR BISHOP
A RESOLUTION
To urge and request the state Department of Education to develop materials for and promote
implementation of programs to teach necessary, basic life skills to all public high
school seniors.
WHEREAS, Louisiana high schools are working to ensure each student graduates
career and college ready; and
WHEREAS, this focus has resulted in an emphasis on teaching complex skills; and
WHEREAS, the intense core course regime and occupational driven electives leaves
little time to teach students necessary life skills such as changing a tire, sewing on a button,
cooking a basic meal, reconciling a check book, or how to interact during a traffic stop; and
WHEREAS, many young adults report that lacking these skills leads to them feeling
stressed and unprepared to live as independent adults; and
WHEREAS, schools in other states have begun to offer "adulting" days to teach
twelfth graders necessary, basic life skills; and
WHEREAS, feedback from those programs has shown that both the student
participants and their parents feel more prepared for the student to leave home.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby request the state Department of Education to develop materials for and promote
implementation of programs to teach necessary, basic life skills to all public high school
seniors.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the
state superintendent of education.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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