Outdoors schools. Why not?

[Cliffy]

yeah they think it comes from a grocery store

Wasn't it just a year or so ago that there was an announcement that some lab was growing meat in a petri dish in a lab? Soon animals will become obsolete and kids won't have to know the terrifying details of their food supply.

 

[L Gilbert]

Wasn't it just a year or so ago that there was an announcement that some lab was growing meat in a petri dish in a lab?

Meet 'Schmeat': Lab-grown meat hits the grill this month - Technology & Science - CBC News

Soon animals will become obsolete and kids won't have to know the terrifying details of their food supply.

Not that many people know it now.

 

[Angstrom]

I obviously mistook this thread to be serious rather than a joke or a troll. My mistake. Carry on.

Maybe its like, we can have a little of both happening at the same time.
Things aren't always cut into stone and so, they shouldn't be.

Sometimes it's best to roll with it and see where it leads you.
Your contribution will shape it in the direction you wish it to go.
But like a team sport, forums tend to have a mind of there own.

And maybe that's one of the reasons they can be so enjoyable,
And frustrating.

 

[WLDB]

Maybe its like, we can have a little of both happening at the same time.
Things aren't always cut into stone and so, they shouldn't be.

They kind of did when I was in school. Around grades 1-3 we did do a few classes outside and did go into the bush (right beside the school) to learn about trees and animals.

It happened a few times in high school too but usually only when the AC was dead.

Meet 'Schmeat': Lab-grown meat hits the grill this month - Technology & Science - CBC News Not that many people know it now.

Everyone in a rural area would know. There is usually farmers or hunters or both there.

 

[Angstrom]

Id love to see that model at least tried. I found childhood to be incredibly tedious. I know a fair number of people who would love to do it again, not me.

Not with the current schooling method no... It's ridiculousness to spend so many years learning nothing.
Now out in the open forest and always moving to new places. That would be a awesome childhood education.


I'd want to start over in that case.

 

[Sal]

I remember us going on a camp-out to the Pinery Provincial Park in grade 8. We learned how to measure the height of a tree from a pencil. How to tell tree age and how to identify various flora and fauna. We also had a ton of fun.

In today's world due to all kinds of liability it would be hard to take grade 8's into that type of environment and camp out for several nights.

 

[Angstrom]

Meet 'Schmeat': Lab-grown meat hits the grill this month - Technology & Science - CBC News Not that many people know it now.

My 9 year old daughter had a friend over the other day.
She didn't know where the chicken meat came from...

I asked her why do you think they call it chicken?
She said, I don't know.

Now that's terribly wrong to me.
How can a 9 year old be missing such critically important information about her everyday life?

 

[gerryh]

My 9 year old daughter had a friend over the other day.
She didn't know where the chicken meat came from...

I asked her why do you think they call it chicken?
She said, I don't know.

Now that's terribly wrong to me.
How can a 9 year old be missing such critically important information about her everyday life?

ask her parents why she doesn't know.

 

[Angstrom]

ask her parents why she doesn't know.

Well she knows now :lol:

She has IPod, Ipad, 3DS, the whole works... Totally spoiled.
Both parents have good paying full time jobs......

How do you ask a question like that without feeling like I'm insulting their parenting job?
May as well just ask them why there doing such a piss poor job educating their kid.