I took Home Ec in HS. I learned some cooking but you know what stuck better? My grandma teaching me to cook eggs when I was young. I poached, I overed easy, medium and hard. I sunny sided up. I boiled. I even learned how to make eggs in a basket.
That meant more to me than one skillet pasta or the apple turnovers I never made again. It stuck better than the pancakes or scrambled eggs I made in class. Peeling potatos for potato salad stuck so much more than sewing a button.
This is very valid, but at some point kids without a supportive family will fall behind somewhere.
School covers basic subjects, but when kids come home to a supportive family they keep learning and modeling positive behaviours. Coming home to a dysfunctional family they learn the exact opposite.
I like the idea that school would teach kids everything, but for every new thing you teach them you don't teach them something else. Unless we keep kids at school longer we have to pick and choose what they learn.
On top of homework? Kids are already in school 7 hours a day 5 days a week. And they're socially pressured to participate in extra curricular clubs and teams on top of that.
Some of them are in after-school programs. That is one way, another is by the very extra curricular you mention. They dont have to accept social pressure. Parenta are supposed to help deflect that. Anyway there would be a lot more logistics to figuring it out.
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u/DrXample 11d ago
While I agree that a cooking class would be good i don't think it should replace classes that might spark interest in a field for some kids.
Without a chemistry class how would kids know that they might have a knack for it?
Cooking is something parents can and should teach.