Posted on 04/13/2021 3:06:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Obviously, you feel that Non Commissioned Officers are not capable of understanding strategy or tactics, let alone resource allocation and planning.
Please don’t put words in my mouth. Anyone can be capable of anything, but it’s still a rare person that can master several specialized skills, or else all members of any particular military force would be trained in all its aspects; can one expect a private to do a general’s job within the timeframe of basic?
Parents working long hours should be the first ones teaching their kids basic life skills early on. Elementary aged kids can cleaning the house, do the laundry, wash dishes by hand, cook dinner for tired working parent, mending and sewing, using a lawn mower and simple plumbing like turning off the water and unplugging a stopped up toilet.
I started teaching ours how to pick produce while still riding in the grocery seat. I was sick in bed wishing to die the year our 4th grader cooked the entire Thanksgiving dinner from scratch by herself - the turkey, the cornbread dressing, the sides and two from scratch pie crusts for pies. The only time she asked a question was how much sage to put in the from scratch dressing and she had to have dad lift the turkey out of the oven. This is the kid who made a cooking video in 2nd grade and won first place with a quilt at the county fair.
Some teens are afraid to use a kitchen knife, smh. Ours were using knives in kindergarten helping to slice cucumbers from the garden to make home canned pickles. No fingers were cut or lost.
It also helps to have the older one understand the family budget and how to balance a checkbook.
They shouldn’t be able to get a license until they know simple car care. Change a tire, check the fluids, and they should have learned how to gas it years earlier.
Many don’t have time to surf the internet outside of when is their next riot.
Why not both — life skills AND academics?
Same here. We’d ride our bikes (no helmet or knee pads) to the library every few days. Later on, introduced our kids to the wonders of the library. Sadly, after 50 years, the “local” library decided they would no longer serve half our tiny little two signal light town. Why? Because the county line runs through town so now half the town has to travel 30 miles to their county library. So, nope, not wasting gas and time for a book when there’s the world wide internet at my finger tips.
I was sick and tired of homemaking so come high school, I demanded they let me into agriculture class. The good ol’ boys weren’t too happy with the first, ugh, girl. Welding is way more fun than slicing potatoes or sewing a shirt.
I agree that it should be taught by the parents first, but not all parents have them skills themselves.
I think a couple of courses in middle school would do the trick. Much better than any SJW course.
I’m all for girls being allowed to take shop and boys to take home ec. What I think is ridiculous is what happened to the shop class in my school right after I graduated. (Millennial generation here, to give you a sense of time.) They got rid of it because it was almost always an all-male class and that was considered hatefully sexist even if it just occurred naturally.
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