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[kaydee50]

What do schools teach these days??? Probably how to use a smartphone and social media????

[Pearlee]

What a sexist thread title!👎

[Icegoddess]

It has nothing to do with male vs female.  We are all taught it in school, but you know the old saying, "Use it or lose it".  I would have to Google it too.  I don't cook that much, but I don't think I have ever needed that calculation in my cooking.  I also can't calculate between the Metric system and the American system of measurements.  I have an awful time when dealing with mixing up gardening chemicals since the directions are written for large quantities, not for something like 1 gallon or less, like for a spray bottle.  

[Nick and Nora]

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@depglass wrote:

I was shopping in the dairy dept. at local market.  A young man was shopping with his maybe 12 year old daughter and we struck up a brief conversation. He had the girl and her younger brother for the weekend.  He said outloud, How many ounces in a pint?  Thinking he might be quizzing his daughter for a learning moment, I kept still.  Then he fiddled with his phone so I said Do you really want the answer?  He said yes, so I told him.  Later DH said he would have had to think about the answer a minute, because girls cook and learn this stuff and boys don't.  My question is Why aren't the schools teaching such basic stuff to everyone?  

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I have to ask DH all the time.  My brain slides out with anything above 8 ounces.

[jackthebear]

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@depglass wrote:

I was shopping in the dairy dept. at local market.  A young man was shopping with his maybe 12 year old daughter and we struck up a brief conversation. He had the girl and her younger brother for the weekend.  He said outloud, How many ounces in a pint?  Thinking he might be quizzing his daughter for a learning moment, I kept still.  Then he fiddled with his phone so I said Do you really want the answer?  He said yes, so I told him.  Later DH said he would have had to think about the answer a minute, because girls cook and learn this stuff and boys don't.  My question is Why aren't the schools teaching such basic stuff to everyone?  

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even deeper question, not smart enough to ask his phone

[pupwhipped]

I know how many ounces are in a cup. After that it can get a bit murky. Cheat sheet, anyone? 

[ValuSkr]

If a person - man or woman - doesn't do much in the kitchen, those measurements and equivalents are unlikely to stick with them, even if they learned them in school.

[suzyQ3]

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@depglass wrote:

I was shopping in the dairy dept. at local market.  A young man was shopping with his maybe 12 year old daughter and we struck up a brief conversation. He had the girl and her younger brother for the weekend.  He said outloud, How many ounces in a pint?  Thinking he might be quizzing his daughter for a learning moment, I kept still.  Then he fiddled with his phone so I said Do you really want the answer?  He said yes, so I told him.  Later DH said he would have had to think about the answer a minute, because girls cook and learn this stuff and boys don't.  My question is Why aren't the schools teaching such basic stuff to everyone?  

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@depglass Schools are to tell you what and how to think.  Not to teach you silly stuff like practical information.  

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My two highly educated grandchildren, both in high school, would beg to differ with you. And they could prove their argument with facts.

[occasionalrain]

I learned a pint is a pound the world around. I wonder how many posters know the metric system.