I had no idea that people could even survive on a diet of potato chips and Coke, let alone have babies. These kids had been given all sorts of supplemental welfare payments, free vitamin supplements, etc. They didn’t take the vitamins and they didn’t use the money to buy food. They said it was too much trouble to cook and nobody cooked in their homes. They all sounded and acted as if they had what are politely called “developmental disabilities” themselves. I was pretty stunned.<
It's criminal that schools have done away with home economics classes in favor of feminism and political correctness. If teenagers were introduced to cooking and nutrition in a group setting perhaps, just perhaps, they'd learn that nutritious food is not only vital, but it tastes really good.
I agree. I went to school in NYC, and while I didn’t come from a “non-cooking household,” I enjoyed our home ec classes in jr high school.
We had little kitchens in the classroom, and we were assigned in groups of 4: 2 boys and 2 girls. We learned to make basic dishes, and even if you already knew how to cook or thought the dishes were horrible, the class was fun, although it was usually the girls who did all the cooking. The boys set the table and occasionally brought the girls things they had made in metal shop.
The school I went to was about 1/3 Northern European white, 1/3 Caribbean Hispanic (who can be any color), and 1/3 African American. We all enjoyed the class.
Our teacher was a black woman who said that it was her mission to teach kids that cooking was more than just a boring duty. I remember we spent a lot of time decorating with paprika.