In The Future Public Schools Have Mostly Been Replaced With Local Private Schools With Emphasis On Life Skills….

@PoetryNEmotion all those are very valuable in life. I remember seeing textbooks that were used up to the early 60’s for health and hygiene in public school classes. Those classes need to be brought back. Some schools are getting grants for veggie gardens, kind of sucks that the harvest is in summer when school is out though.

@cherokeepatti Practical life skills are vital to emotional snd physical well being. They could get summer school credit.

@PoetryNEmotion Yes and I think these types of classes would be really fun. They had something like this at the private school. The teachers were teaching them though but they sometimes would have a guest to teach something. The boy took a survival camping type class, it wasn’t for credit just something fun they did on the last period of Fridays. The teacher brought a Dutch oven and made a pineapple upside down cake for them one time, the boy was impressed with that. I want to let him do such things with the fire pit and my rocket stove. He’s old enough to get a kick at cooking outdoors. He is collecting survival items like a knife, magnesium fire striker, cordage, cooking vessels, etc. and I’m finding things at the discount store sometimes for very little $.

@cherokeepatti Sounds great. When I lived in Texas, I was very impressed with yhe school system my do attended. Top notch teachers. Excellent curriculum. Guest speakers. Even had a cowboy come in to teach the kids how to lasso. I know not vital. Lots of projects. Was better than the Canadian system for sure.

@PoetryNEmotion You know that is what makes learning so fun when you throw in things like that to break up the monotony. What made Oklahoma history a lot more interesting was one of the students was Comanche. He didn’t do well at all on tests but he added so much to every conversation he engaged in, and it was often…it was fascinating to listen to him. I’m sure that what he was speaking about was handed down in oral history by the elders of his clan. It would have been excellent if an elder had come and spoke for a class.

@PoetryNEmotion Imagine having a home ec class and someone who excelled at barbecue came in and taught a class, like a special one on a Saturday for extra credit, plus you get a barbecue dinner and all the fixins.

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