FINAL STUDENT COMMENTS FROM VARIOUS CALM CLASSES TAUGHT BY MRS. CARR
I think CALM has really helped me learn to budget properly and make healthy relationships and how to sustain a happy & healthy body….CALM has taught me many great things and I am very thankful that I have had the opportunity to take this class it has prepared me for the real world and where I will be able to overcome problems and mistakes properly.
CALM helps me to understand what can come in the future, I feel more prepared and ready to take on the real world.
Overall, CALM has helped me to understand the vast amount of decisions I am to make throughout my life and has better equipped me with the information I will need to make informed decisions and do what is best for me.
The ability to have a safe and smart budget is something CALM also taught me. It showed me good tips that I could follow about how to have a safe budget. For example, when it comes to having a monthly budget, always put some money aside for savings, just in case an emergency were to arise and you needed the money in an instant. We also learned in detail about how taxes work and the best way to handle them and pay them off.
While I was doing the [Twenty Something] Project, I was trying my best to make healthy decisions, but I still ended up in debt. The project was something I needed to be honest in, it was obvious someone like me wouldn't be able to live like that. After the financial unit, I kept track of my money in my notes, though it isn't much better, I spent $200 less than last month.
…but the main thing I got from CALM: always think before you do.
Everyone believes school has no class that teaches you life skills. Well, they were all wrong. CALM is one of the best classes to take. It helps you realize just how difficult adults have it. You don’t understand the stress of having a baby, you don’t realize how difficult it is to get a job and you don’t realize how dangerous certain things like sex are. CALM teaches you to prepare for everything the future holds. It helps you learn about yourself as well and helps you grow. CALM is certainly a class everyone should take. It will help people more than they could imagine.
Like most teenagers, I don’t know what field I would like to work in. A few ideas have crossed my mind such as a fighter pilot or teacher (especially if I was as great of a teacher as Mrs. Carr).
Though I will have problems I have been prepared and taught by my favorite teacher in the world! She taught us ways to destress and helped organize what kinds of careers would fit us the best.
When people say “I never got taught how to do taxes in school.” That is what you learn in CALM! I learned how to save money, finance a car and also living on my own. … I really liked this course. It prepared me for the future in ways I didn’t know existed.
Thanks to my amazing and funny mentor, Mrs. Carr I have learned throughout CALM 20 that there are lots of important and perhaps terrifyingly confusing decisions I must face throughout my change into adulthood.
CALM divided the chaos into three important sections: our careers, our financial choices and our personal wellbeing. In building some structure in what seems so random, we have been better equipped to make choices in life. CALM taught us how to evaluate our circumstances and make the best choice possible.
CALM has equipped me with the skills and knowledge I need in order to make good and wise choices in the future.
My choice in job is hard but with CALM it has been easier to find a career and be more equipped for the obstacles in my path. … CALM in general has broadened my knowledge and made me more ready to face the world.
CALM changed how I spend money and where I spend money especially after learning how much retirement is going to cost. … My cousin is a teen mom who doesn’t work and I honestly have no idea how she can afford it. She also took CALM through correspondence, so look how that ended up. …CALM was a very helpful class, I was very wrong in January, it wasn’t a waste of time.
Thanks to CALM I feel more prepared to make choices in my life that make me nervous. It has taught me a lot about being an adult and a parent than I had already known.
In CALM we learn a lot about healthy and good choices. We learnt how to manage money, to better the life ahead of us, we learnt how to take care of our bodies so we don’t get horrible illnesses, and we learnt the consequences of having sex and how to have safe sex. … CALM was very useful and I would recommend people to take it through Mrs. Carr’s class, because people will definitely get more out of it than if they took it through correspondence, you get a face to face teacher and there are lots of fun things that happen in class. One choice people [should] definitely make is taking CALM through your class.
Overall CALM has helped me decide on my future choices and make me realize what is best for me. It has taught me what to look forward to in life and what to look out for. I will always have a choice to make and I will make the one that I think fits me best. Without this class I wouldn’t be ready for the future and wouldn’t know what the right choices would be and I’d have to find out for myself. So thanks for being a great teacher and have a fantastic summer!
CALM class is one of the best and most effective courses in high school because it teaches us life skills that will come in handy like taxes and what to expect when having a child, not just how to find the other side of a triangle.
Thanks Mrs. Carr for everything! You are my favourite teacher!!!!
CALM helps prepare students for some of the hardest life choices.
Mrs. Carr helped prepare us for job interviews at the start of the year. She arranged for some community members to actually come in to interview the class, this was a nice thing. It prepared us for when it’s real and you’re actually looking for a job. … All in all, CALM is a really important course for everyone to take. It isn’t just a class, it’s preparation for your future…. I’m glad we have a course like CALM to take, and a wonderful teacher to teach it.
I think CALM has really helped me learn to budget properly and make healthy relationships and how to sustain a happy & healthy body….CALM has taught me many great things and I am very thankful that I have had the opportunity to take this class it has prepared me for the real world and where I will be able to overcome problems and mistakes properly.
CALM helps me to understand what can come in the future, I feel more prepared and ready to take on the real world.
Overall, CALM has helped me to understand the vast amount of decisions I am to make throughout my life and has better equipped me with the information I will need to make informed decisions and do what is best for me.
The ability to have a safe and smart budget is something CALM also taught me. It showed me good tips that I could follow about how to have a safe budget. For example, when it comes to having a monthly budget, always put some money aside for savings, just in case an emergency were to arise and you needed the money in an instant. We also learned in detail about how taxes work and the best way to handle them and pay them off.
While I was doing the [Twenty Something] Project, I was trying my best to make healthy decisions, but I still ended up in debt. The project was something I needed to be honest in, it was obvious someone like me wouldn't be able to live like that. After the financial unit, I kept track of my money in my notes, though it isn't much better, I spent $200 less than last month.
…but the main thing I got from CALM: always think before you do.
Everyone believes school has no class that teaches you life skills. Well, they were all wrong. CALM is one of the best classes to take. It helps you realize just how difficult adults have it. You don’t understand the stress of having a baby, you don’t realize how difficult it is to get a job and you don’t realize how dangerous certain things like sex are. CALM teaches you to prepare for everything the future holds. It helps you learn about yourself as well and helps you grow. CALM is certainly a class everyone should take. It will help people more than they could imagine.
Like most teenagers, I don’t know what field I would like to work in. A few ideas have crossed my mind such as a fighter pilot or teacher (especially if I was as great of a teacher as Mrs. Carr).
Though I will have problems I have been prepared and taught by my favorite teacher in the world! She taught us ways to destress and helped organize what kinds of careers would fit us the best.
When people say “I never got taught how to do taxes in school.” That is what you learn in CALM! I learned how to save money, finance a car and also living on my own. … I really liked this course. It prepared me for the future in ways I didn’t know existed.
Thanks to my amazing and funny mentor, Mrs. Carr I have learned throughout CALM 20 that there are lots of important and perhaps terrifyingly confusing decisions I must face throughout my change into adulthood.
CALM divided the chaos into three important sections: our careers, our financial choices and our personal wellbeing. In building some structure in what seems so random, we have been better equipped to make choices in life. CALM taught us how to evaluate our circumstances and make the best choice possible.
CALM has equipped me with the skills and knowledge I need in order to make good and wise choices in the future.
My choice in job is hard but with CALM it has been easier to find a career and be more equipped for the obstacles in my path. … CALM in general has broadened my knowledge and made me more ready to face the world.
CALM changed how I spend money and where I spend money especially after learning how much retirement is going to cost. … My cousin is a teen mom who doesn’t work and I honestly have no idea how she can afford it. She also took CALM through correspondence, so look how that ended up. …CALM was a very helpful class, I was very wrong in January, it wasn’t a waste of time.
Thanks to CALM I feel more prepared to make choices in my life that make me nervous. It has taught me a lot about being an adult and a parent than I had already known.
In CALM we learn a lot about healthy and good choices. We learnt how to manage money, to better the life ahead of us, we learnt how to take care of our bodies so we don’t get horrible illnesses, and we learnt the consequences of having sex and how to have safe sex. … CALM was very useful and I would recommend people to take it through Mrs. Carr’s class, because people will definitely get more out of it than if they took it through correspondence, you get a face to face teacher and there are lots of fun things that happen in class. One choice people [should] definitely make is taking CALM through your class.
Overall CALM has helped me decide on my future choices and make me realize what is best for me. It has taught me what to look forward to in life and what to look out for. I will always have a choice to make and I will make the one that I think fits me best. Without this class I wouldn’t be ready for the future and wouldn’t know what the right choices would be and I’d have to find out for myself. So thanks for being a great teacher and have a fantastic summer!
CALM class is one of the best and most effective courses in high school because it teaches us life skills that will come in handy like taxes and what to expect when having a child, not just how to find the other side of a triangle.
Thanks Mrs. Carr for everything! You are my favourite teacher!!!!
CALM helps prepare students for some of the hardest life choices.
Mrs. Carr helped prepare us for job interviews at the start of the year. She arranged for some community members to actually come in to interview the class, this was a nice thing. It prepared us for when it’s real and you’re actually looking for a job. … All in all, CALM is a really important course for everyone to take. It isn’t just a class, it’s preparation for your future…. I’m glad we have a course like CALM to take, and a wonderful teacher to teach it.