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13988217 No.13988217 [Reply] [Original]

Do you think cookery should be taught in schools as a main subject equal to maths and sociology?

>> No.13988224

No.

>> No.13988227

>>13988224
Why not?

>> No.13988233

Equal to?
No.
But home ec absolutely needs to have more emphasis put on it.
Public schools need to teach you how to file basic taxes and cook a fucking meal, since we've replaced all responsibility of raising a child with school and TV

>> No.13988236

>>13988217
Yes, it is an important life skill and not every parent teaches their kid to cook

>> No.13988247

>>13988227
Should be taught by parents. Do you think chores should be taught in schools as well?

>> No.13988250

>>13988227
It can and should be learned outside school, it’s far too easy to warrant teaching it systematically, it’s not essential to understanding how the world works and it doesn’t lay the foundations for a child to be economically secure.

>> No.13988270

>>13988247
Yes.

>> No.13988277

Maybe not for an entire 12 years, but at some point kids should get at least a couple years of it for sure, especially here in the US. And it should be a serious class too, not some BS elective that kids take for a semester just to get an easy A.

If all young adults actually knew how to make several decent meals and had some basic cooking skills to build upon, maybe 75% of us wouldn’t be obese fast food cucks. And maybe young parents could do better for their kids than feeding them easy Mac and chicken nuggets 3 times a day.

>> No.13988284

>>13988277
We have classes p much like that from age 13 to 15/16 up here in memeland

>> No.13988317

>>13988217
Yes and no. It would be a lot more useful to students than the nonsense they end up studying. But no because if everyone learned to cook well then I wouldn't feel special about myself being a good cook

>> No.13988321

No. You know what I got to cook in home-ec? Pizza Crackers. Crackers, can of sauce, bag of shredded cheese. Dont let American schools teach cooking, they'll fail at it like everything else.

>> No.13988324

It should be taught at a basic level for 1 year in middle school and 1 year in highschool, with an option to choose from a few different cooking courses as electives beyond the 1 year in highschool.

>> No.13988367

>>13988217
I did cooking lessons as a kid. I actually learned quite a lot from it and from my parents who always encouraged cooking.
It paid dividends when I lived alone for a while at uni in dorms.
Sadly I remember many a fire alarm going off over people burning baked beans. Which seems to daft to me because you can literally just put them into a plastic bowl and microwave them.
Then again, knowing how bad a lot of people are at cooking now, they'd probably try to microwave the whole sealed tin and blow the place up.
I feel like kids should be taught the basics, be encouraged to follow some recipes. Only step in to help if they are struggling, and always drill in the important phrase "with cooking you can always add but you can't take away".

>> No.13989506

>>13988217
Yes definitely, people like me with severe aspergers who were never taught how to cook either end up becoming extremely underweight,like me, or extremely overweight