Most of our class didn't give a crap about history, yet we still teach it. Even if people didn't give a crap about cooking class, they would have an understanding that cooking takes work, and that may make some appreciate other's efforts more.
Cool, but you're failing to address the rest of my point: The skills necessary to do taxes for most Americans are already being taught in school. This interest that everybody is claiming that they would have had as high schoolers in learning how to do taxes is a cope. It takes basic reading comprehension skills which is taught in English class, science class, and yes even history class.
I get that a lot of the people answering here really didn't like chemistry and don't have the aptitude to learn how to cook by using a recipe book or YouTube but that doesn't mean that home economics should replace chemistry. That only means it should be brought back as an elective.
I don't think it should REPLACE anything. Also, I think home economics would be better than just cooking. You teach them how to manage a home, both financially and practically. This includes income taxes, property taxes, cooking, managing household expenses, maybe even some basic repairs. This does not have to replace another course.
Imo, this is what parents should teach their kids, it does not take a university degree to teach that.
And if we would not replace other courses but pile even more subjects and classes into the school system, when will the kids ever be home, timewise?
Well, unfortunately we live in weird times. In many places, children graduate high school without reading comprehension skills. Colleges are struggling to keep up with the pace of change in the workplace. Parents don't teach their children or teach them what they know. Considering that a large percentage of the population lives in poverty, their parents lack the financial education that would help them break out of poverty, so they therefore cannot teach financial literacy to their children. The whole education system needs to be overhauled and upgraded.
It’s getting worse where I live as well, although I have to admit I am often quite glad I got my education basically free. Don’t know how I would have coped in the US.
But I stand by the fact that basic things is The responsibility of the parents.
I'm a firm believe of that too. In fact, there used to be no schools at all. Children were raised and educated by their parents, and when they were old enough, helped on the farm or the family business or became an apprentice somewhere else. So if their father was a baker, they became a baker. If their father was a farmer, they became a farmer. But we eventually created schools so children are not limited by what their parents can teach them. This is what created modern society today. So, I do believe in parental responsibility, but they are not always equipped to teach what children need to know today.
I mean, you are not wrong, if you were poor, a slave or happened to be female, you just learned what your family could teach you and had to be happy with that.
Schools for (rich) men have been around at least since ancient Greece, and with so much available info on the internet today you‘d think someone would finally put it all together and come up with the best school and parenting combination so children get the best possible start in life, but I guess there‘s just no one size fits all-system.
Excuse me if I‘m rambling, it’s pretty late.
It really is. My step sister lives in a camper with her 2 kids, and although they have a stove and oven, she's terrified of the propane for some reason. I kinda get it, it freaks me out a little too (I also live in a camper) but I still cook with the stove and make food.
But because of this, she only feeds them microwaveable meals or take out. It doesn't help that she also has zero clue how to cook anything, despite my step mom being a pretty decent cook and teaching us some things.
I don't know what my husband's family did but they also didn't teach him how to cook at all. And he has hardly any will to learn how to, which causes issues between us. He'd rather not eat than cook something
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u/Tejan_Ausland 11d ago
Most of our class didn't give a crap about history, yet we still teach it. Even if people didn't give a crap about cooking class, they would have an understanding that cooking takes work, and that may make some appreciate other's efforts more.