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Rudimentary offensive/defensive edged weapons training should be mandatory.
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Knife Skills = Life Skills?
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It worked for the Spartans!
Was going to make a joke....not gonna do it.
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Yeah... no.
For one, knives are already illegal in schools.
For another... Parents are utterly clueless about how to raise well behaved kids who can think through an action. Putting a handful of teenagers together in a room with knives would result in stabbings or lost fingers within a week, and enough lawsuits to close the school within a quarter.
Maybe you could do it with dull plastic training knives, but then you don't actually learn how to work with a sharp knife and the skill isn't acquired in a way that'll be useful.
For one, knives are already illegal in schools.
For another... Parents are utterly clueless about how to raise well behaved kids who can think through an action. Putting a handful of teenagers together in a room with knives would result in stabbings or lost fingers within a week, and enough lawsuits to close the school within a quarter.
Maybe you could do it with dull plastic training knives, but then you don't actually learn how to work with a sharp knife and the skill isn't acquired in a way that'll be useful.
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Sad, but true.
ETA: But why is this? A lot of us went to schools that had home-EC classes and knives were used ( albeit scarcely, But they were there) and we didn't stab each other or cut off our fingers!
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Lots of stuff, I'm not a big fan of the school system as a whole. For example things like being digitally native are so unbelievably valueable nowadays, or teaching kids about taxes and the like. I also believe that not everybody needs to learn biology on a cellular level or much more than basic maths (which is without a bias as I'm a giant fan of math; but in my opinion it's taught completely wrong)
I'd also value scientifically based "how to life healthy" stuff more than "use this knife to cut that".
Because using knives is something that you can easily learn or research on your own whereas, if I go back to the living healthy example, there's lots of controversy about it and everybody has another opinion; and well it's better to mess up a knife or cut yourself a few times than to completely mess up your body.
I hope my point came across as intended
