This editorial proposes a bold idea for health: teach children about where their food comes from and how to grow it in an integrated curriculum that explores history, biology, sociology, chemistry and culinary science.
www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24...waters.html
www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24...waters.html
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Re: Eating for Credit
Sun, February 26, 2006 - 2:54 PMI really wish they had such things at ANY of the schools I went to. I don't know anything about agriculture, I am always struggling and trying to figure out things. When the tractor breaks down, it takes me six months to fix it because I am so ignorant. Of course if schools did make this a curriculum requirement, we'd probably have Monsanto lobbying to make sure everything was taught from THEIR perspective, so maybe ignorance is preferable to brainwashing?
I accidentally signed up for the wrong class once and ended up taking a class on 'home studies' or something like that which ended up being social psychology and child development and a bunch of stuff. My parents were angry that I wouldn't switch back to some dumb thing like marine biology which was what I was supposed to be signed up for, but I learned more in that class than in four years of math, physics, chemistry and biology combined.
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Re: Eating for Credit
Sun, February 26, 2006 - 3:05 PMThank you. I am printing this out right now for my kids to take to school. They started something like this at the grade school, but parts of it fizzled out because the kids aren't there in the summer when the plants are fruiting and ready to be harvested!! They do teach healthy eating, and they've kicked out the soda machines in the whole school district (well, at least the elementary and middle schools... not sure about the high schools), but I'd say they are only about half-way to where they want to be.
