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I did have some classes for writing resumes and professional emails but we were like 13 and too dumb to care.
Also the class was really boring and lackluster. Telling children "you have to write down your past jobs and stuff..." and making them write a mock resume isn't very engaging
So you want them to teach you how to write a resume, but at no point do you want to write a resume while learning to write a resume because that's boring?
I'm not saying that, I'm just saying teaching it to 12-13 year olds is probably not super useful
A lot of folks are going to be writing their first resumes at 15 years old. Maybe 12-13 is too early, but if we let curriculum be decided by what teenagers care about, we will be teaching them vanishingly little before long.
People do a lot of growing up in the fee short years between 12 and 15.
I'd say that teaching kids those sort of skills at ages 15-17 could maybe provide some utility, but earlier is a waste of resources imo, maybe other than a very cursory look at how people get jobs?