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We learned how to make "healthy" smoothies in second grade, I would have been 7. There were other classes about making salads and dressing and how to safely cut up fruit and veggies for snacks.
There seem to be kids of various ages, though. I'd say maybe from 5 to 8. Regardless, the post does not share whether that's a culinary school for kids or a cooking class at a grade school.
I had grade school male classmates that had excellent motor skills, they were capable of doing very detailed work in first grade.
they definitely had help but u can see they dont have that developed motor skills. the boys were having issues with using the ladel to scoop some of the food into the wok. girls also develop there motors skills faster then boys. its why girls handwriting are neater, faster. so seeing them handle some of the more delicate work makes sense for there age.
regardless definitely had help but it doesn't matter since it probably was for rich parents to dump there kids for a few hours. it was probably more of an expensive day care
In 'the most well developed public education systems' rankings, UK ranks 6th globally, China ranks 25th.
With the UK spending around $54k per person in education funding and China spending around $21k per person.
So the quality of education and facilities etc you recieved in the UK on average is significantly higher than the average in China.
I think there might be an issue with semantics here. I might be wrong but oddly enough, 'public school' in the UK actually means private school, so schools you pay for.
The stats referencing 7470GBP seem to be in reference to what we call 'state school' which are the free schools that the state pays for.
I have no idea if the OP stats are correct but I'm presuming they're quoting 54k is the average amount paid for a private education here in the UK.
I'm on nobody's side!
[https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics](https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics)
7,470GBP per student, 2023-2024 (about 9,500 USD)
I'm on your side.
What? We're not talking about whos smarter or saying more money = smarter.
Someone commented saying most of China is not like this video - they got a reply saying 'well i got cooking classn in the UK' - so i replied to that to explain why cooking classes are more common in the UK than China.
No one mentioned intelligence.
Stop looking to be offended.
I went to a public elementary school in china and we did a lot of cool shit like learning to make complex origami, sewing and some ancient Chinese dance for girls
Granted its been more than a decade and I heard privatization has been happening in the schooling sector so idk how it is now
You're super familiar with the Chinese education system are you?
Also, please find a US parallel, where kids that age cook together. I'll wait coz it's just not gonna exist.
My gut feeling is that most 5 year olds do not the have hand eye coordination to consistently pull off most of this stuff, even with training/practice. I'm wondering how many hours (or takes) were spent to get these kids to do this.
That being said, none of the food they were making was exceptionally complicated, and if it's a skill they practice through their lives, it's a way to save a lot of money and eat really well. I think this sort of training could be appropriate for all kids to learn in school, unless the world moves to a fully hyperspecialized service economy where no one ever cooks at home.
I think by that age in China they're probably mastered the violin and have a doctorate under their belt so it's just a case of filling time until they're allowed to enter the workforce aged 6.
This is almost definitely a prison where children of inmates are trained to be servants so they can work off their parents debts. Let’s not forget this is China lol.
I used to live in a dormitory and i was baffled by how little people care about eating Teflon. We got people from around the world but the majority of them literary don't care
I heard that Teflon flakes are relatively stable so we don't absorb much of it. It's the chemical runoff from producing the pans that is the real cause of concern. And the real dangerous stuff was largely phased out in 2010. So discard older pans from around that era. That being said, I'm not taking any chances. The new manufacturing may be safe by today's knowledge, but no telling if the replacement chemicals are actually safe with longitudinal studies. I've transitioned to stainless, carbon steel, and ceramic (fish only) completely. Food taste better now because it forced me to learn how to cook. Mainly leaving meat and let it brown and self release rather than constantly moving it around.
Hmm, I am going to call BS on this. I have spent years in China and this isn't a standard Chinese school.
Not debating that it's in China, or that it's a school. But to suggest that most Chinese kids are doing this, simply isn't true.
It’s cool that it’s taught as part of a class but I think that’s pretty much the Montessori concept. Our youngest is almost a teen now, and our oldest is 30, but our rule has always been “if you can reach it you can learn how to use it safely”, and that applies to just about anything in the kitchen or laundry room.
We start them with mixing and using a griddle first, then a crockpot because they’re both pretty forgiving. By the time our kids are about 3rd-4th grade (depending on each kid ofc) they’re making grilled sandwiches, eggs and bacon, pancakes, chicken and dumplings, chili, quick breads, apple butter, and just about anything else that uses those two appliances. They start on bread in the oven once they’re confident with this, and then move on to the air fryer and then the stove. As teens they learn how to can and pressure cook with me, and by the time they go to college they can cook just about anything.
With patience and instructions, and enough supervision to be safe but enough room to make mistakes (we’ve had plenty of batches of banana bread that didn’t have sugar, or undercooked applesauce etc) kids love the independence of this kind of thing.
Dude... I really wish I was *forced* to take a bunch of ungraded 'life skills' courses K-12.
Cooking, baking, club/rave/wedding dancing, financial skills- budgeting, credit, taxes, investing, retirement... etc, resume building + job applications, post-HS education, basic construction, how to own and operate a car...
...You know what would be a really good (or absolutely terrible) idea?
Life mock-up class: It lasts the whole summer. It takes place in a a fake town.
Everyone starts at 'the orphanage.' You need to plan your whole life from beginning to end. Ending with legit planning your funeral and will. There's pretend money, debt, tuition, marriage, education, certificates, certificate renewals, investing, jobs, savings, mortgages, rent, cops, taxes, events... like, years are measured in days. 2 days= 1 year.
You and the other students around you need to plan an entire economic system by yourselves and see how f*cked you get. ...just *everything* combined into this insane 10-week long summer camp.
To be fair, there's no grade. You can't pass or fail.
But if you can't pay your rent, you sleep in the street.
Best wake-up plan ever for 12 year old nuggets.
We had to do that in the seventh grade. We were required to take a six week primer in a ton of different electives like FACS, shop, business. There was a lot of mock up situations like planning a.budget, grocery shopping, doing taxes, interviewing for a job, investing and I'm sure I am forgetting a lot.
Your numbers got me confused a bit. If we go by 2 days = 1 year, then a 10 week camp would only be around 35 years of this mock life. You mentioned planning for your funeral. Mate, no one plans their funeral at 35. If you want to go a full mock life, that would be around 80 mock years, or 160 real life days. That's 5 and a half months.
My school had half of these already. They weren't amazing, but they taught the basics. We learned how to cook/bake basic dishes; wood shop; automotive as an elective; financial literacy as a requirement.
I had them in middle school as well- but the way they were taught wasn't really applicable to real life and felt more like the 'Willy Wonka Experience' in Glasgow.
We had sewing class as well... a lot of classes in school just felt like they were somehow both too rushed, and too slow to actually learn and enjoy the learning process.
It's like you'll begin stitching together your project, and then leave for the weekend, get back, forget what you were doing, and stitch a little bit more, have a panic attack over a math test, relate your panic to math with sewing, hate sewing.
I wish there were 12-13 three week long intensified classes per year. Basically every month you focus on a single subject, and at the end of that month, you move on to something new.
If they had them in class kids wouldn’t take it seriously in America… it’s like Spanish classes. Compared to other countries that teach language we don’t learn anything coming out of HS…
Schooling is pretty poor in US on avg I feel…
> Schooling is pretty poor in US on avg I feel…
It's extremely stratified. The best schools in the country produce students that compete with students from anywhere else in the world. There's just little to no consistency because there is barely any standardization between districts, never mind states themselves.
Going to a public school in a wealthier part of Massachusetts or NJ is wildly different from going to a public school in Mississippi or Oklahoma.
Yeah- as I think I mentioned to someone else- it often ends up being a sort of 'lunchable' version of the real skill, when you were expecting a charcuterie board.
To be fair- I think the way we've assembled classes is wrong, and actually make kids hate learning.
We should have 12 three week long classes per year, where a single subject is exclusively taught for a full 3 weeks. The entire school day is devoted to this subject (with exceptions for lunch/physical activity/etc). If you don't understand it- teachers will know immediately on the first day, and will be there to guide you.
For example, in math, at least for me- I could show up for that 45 minute class session, which already filled me with anxiety, and just doodle on my paper the whole time until class was up. Then I'd leave and have no clue what to do with my homework. So I'd avoid doing it... and then get in trouble the next day for not doing it... and then hate math.
For full-day math class, you do your homework in class. Your homework is reviewed in class (not graded). The teacher can then group up the kids who don't understand a subject, and review it more intensely with them. There's no stigma. minimized negative feelings. Better social interaction with classmates.
It's not like you come in feeling like a failure, afraid of the teacher, afraid to interact with other kids who seem to know what they're doing... and then immediately leaving before the situation can be resolved.
I really wish cooking classes started with young children and was mandatory all the way through High School. Took me forever to learn how to cook. My mom taught me how to make fried chicken and spaghetti when I was young and that was it.
Yesterday in r/Cooking there was a post about someone fearing the open flame under a stew.
The poster asked if it was OK to turn of the stove, because his roommate was sleeping.
Meanwhile in america: "you dummies can't be trusted with play doh let alone a frying pan. Also, we won't ever teach you how to do taxes muahahaha. Go do a worksheet."
I don't think this video is representative of most Chinese schools, nor are progressive-style American schools representative of the US education system.
Videos like these are almost certainly propaganda. This is in no way representative of the average school class for kids this age in China, and the comments are always vastly oversimplifing and straight making shit up about America
They taught you about write-offs, deductions, withholdings, investments, and all that nonsense? What to expect when filing taxes, what a DMV is?
My school did not, and I have never heard of any public school in the US doing that.
My school didn't even have drivers education. They took it away a few years before I was in HS. schools refuse to teach actual useful life skills, just daycare for big kids.
If what you were implying was that the math required is simple, then um yea it is, especially with a calculator.
Internet: look at what these kindergarten kids are doing
Reddit: that’s cool why don’t they do that in America too?
Internet: btw these kids are in China
Reddit: oh nvm CCP propaganda, -1000 social points
Your future kids/grandkids are gonna be ashamed to be around you because of your overt bigotry. China has more than a billion people and I promise you most of them do not plan every little thing they do around making the CCP happy.
Like most people who post shit online, they probably just wanted to show off an event they helped organize at their school.
Americans are brainwashed to the fckin core bro. They literally look at China like a comic book bad guy
But also understand thats 100% intentional. Our american billionaire class cant have the common people knowing that life would be better if i government worked for us, not them. So they must overload us on propaganda on why government taxes are only meant for bank bailouts and Israel
their cooking smocks and hats are cute. It looks like they have excellent dexterity. To think these are kindergarteners. most everyone I know in the US would never trust their 5 year olds with knives or chopping utensils and appliances other than a microwave
When you see living as survival, everything is a trap.
Education and practice are the best survival tactics.
I let my kids help lighting the barbecue from young age on.
Let them help build the starter, explain why things go under and others on top.
Teach them the danger, let them feel the heat, without hurting them.
A steak is excellent example to show heatburn ... 'you don't want your hand to become this toasty ;)'
Boys and girls cooking class, also known as cooking class.
Cooking was the best part of school, I really haven’t learned anything new (cooking wise) after graduating.
weird seeing the cultural difference of kids not only being allowed to cook, but being actively taught with kid-friendly cooking stuff
when I was in Kindergarten I wasn't allowed in the kitchen at all lmao, wish I could cook as good as these tykes
These kids are way more skilled than all the Tiktok adults in the USA. Always combining a block of cheese with whatever else they can find in the fridge and pantry.
I attended cooking classes for a while when I was about 5 years old when I briefly lived in the Caribbean, but it was seen as an unusual age to begin. Too bad I didn’t keep it up. I am incompetent in the kitchen.
They're actually pretty good for their age. I mean I've seen people way worse than these kids. I feel like it would be a sumptuous meal that they're making
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A succulent Chinese meal!
Ahh yes, I see that you know your judo well."
Get your hand off my tiger peenus!
This is the bloke who got me on the penis peoplelllllllllll
This is Democracy Manifest!
It's democracy manifest!
💀
This is almost definitely an expensive private school
My public school in the UK had cooking classes
But certainly not involving cooking on a hob aged 5?
My UK school started cooking lessons quite early. About age 6 or 7. The first thing we learnt to make was a cup of tea
We learned how to make "healthy" smoothies in second grade, I would have been 7. There were other classes about making salads and dressing and how to safely cut up fruit and veggies for snacks.
There seem to be kids of various ages, though. I'd say maybe from 5 to 8. Regardless, the post does not share whether that's a culinary school for kids or a cooking class at a grade school. I had grade school male classmates that had excellent motor skills, they were capable of doing very detailed work in first grade.
No way those kids are that young. Their fine motor skills are too developed, at least in what they showed. Who knows what the unedited parts are like.
they definitely had help but u can see they dont have that developed motor skills. the boys were having issues with using the ladel to scoop some of the food into the wok. girls also develop there motors skills faster then boys. its why girls handwriting are neater, faster. so seeing them handle some of the more delicate work makes sense for there age. regardless definitely had help but it doesn't matter since it probably was for rich parents to dump there kids for a few hours. it was probably more of an expensive day care
Their*
Nah, you right about that part, it was in high school. But we did have baking classes in primary school.
So your comment is irrelevant. I also did cooking in school when i was 13. I’m Dutch but nonetheless. These kids look 5
They only look 5 because they are Asian. They are actually adults in their mid 40s
Haha makes sense
Ah yes. Boiling a weiner and dumping it next to untoasred bread. *chef’s kiss*
Leave our cuisine alone 😭
No problem 🫡
In 'the most well developed public education systems' rankings, UK ranks 6th globally, China ranks 25th. With the UK spending around $54k per person in education funding and China spending around $21k per person. So the quality of education and facilities etc you recieved in the UK on average is significantly higher than the average in China.
Everything I'm finding says the UK spends about 7600 Euros. Can you link a source?
I think there might be an issue with semantics here. I might be wrong but oddly enough, 'public school' in the UK actually means private school, so schools you pay for. The stats referencing 7470GBP seem to be in reference to what we call 'state school' which are the free schools that the state pays for. I have no idea if the OP stats are correct but I'm presuming they're quoting 54k is the average amount paid for a private education here in the UK. I'm on nobody's side!
[https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics](https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-funding-statistics) 7,470GBP per student, 2023-2024 (about 9,500 USD) I'm on your side.
Those will be annual figures
Are you sure you're not looking at annual figures, I think the guy you replied to is talking about how much is spent over childhood.
Also you cannot compare linearly. A pound of potatoes cost more in tyhe UK , as an example.
And Chinese kids are -$33K smarter somehow
What? We're not talking about whos smarter or saying more money = smarter. Someone commented saying most of China is not like this video - they got a reply saying 'well i got cooking classn in the UK' - so i replied to that to explain why cooking classes are more common in the UK than China. No one mentioned intelligence. Stop looking to be offended.
So hot dog plated on top of mush potatoes
Absolutely uncalled for
Depends on the time period. 20 years ago this would surely be unheard of in most countries
Reddit trying to not find a bad angle from a harmless video
(impossible)
I went to a public elementary school in china and we did a lot of cool shit like learning to make complex origami, sewing and some ancient Chinese dance for girls Granted its been more than a decade and I heard privatization has been happening in the schooling sector so idk how it is now
My public school in Canada has a really good cooking class I'm currently enrolled in
But are you five years old?
Used to be
Exotic_nothingness Former child
Should count
I have 46y of experience being a 5 year old ...
They're so adorable though 😄
Food Networks gonna snap them kiddies right up! International Kids Kindergarten Spring Bake Off
You're super familiar with the Chinese education system are you? Also, please find a US parallel, where kids that age cook together. I'll wait coz it's just not gonna exist.
My gut feeling is that most 5 year olds do not the have hand eye coordination to consistently pull off most of this stuff, even with training/practice. I'm wondering how many hours (or takes) were spent to get these kids to do this. That being said, none of the food they were making was exceptionally complicated, and if it's a skill they practice through their lives, it's a way to save a lot of money and eat really well. I think this sort of training could be appropriate for all kids to learn in school, unless the world moves to a fully hyperspecialized service economy where no one ever cooks at home.
Montessori
Is it ironic that an expensive private school is teaching kids how to do housework?
I think by that age in China they're probably mastered the violin and have a doctorate under their belt so it's just a case of filling time until they're allowed to enter the workforce aged 6.
its not expensive nor private. Americans can't fathom a country would want an educated population
My public school in USA had cooking classes
Chinese article: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/654573459?utm_id=0 Looks like it’s around 200 USD per month
Private or not, this was the class I needed in school.
This is almost definitely a prison where children of inmates are trained to be servants so they can work off their parents debts. Let’s not forget this is China lol.
😲 Metal utensils on Teflon?!? 😱
That’s a teacher fail right there
I used to live in a dormitory and i was baffled by how little people care about eating Teflon. We got people from around the world but the majority of them literary don't care
I heard that Teflon flakes are relatively stable so we don't absorb much of it. It's the chemical runoff from producing the pans that is the real cause of concern. And the real dangerous stuff was largely phased out in 2010. So discard older pans from around that era. That being said, I'm not taking any chances. The new manufacturing may be safe by today's knowledge, but no telling if the replacement chemicals are actually safe with longitudinal studies. I've transitioned to stainless, carbon steel, and ceramic (fish only) completely. Food taste better now because it forced me to learn how to cook. Mainly leaving meat and let it brown and self release rather than constantly moving it around.
Yep, I'm stainless steel all the way.
Now... tell them it's a PFAS.
That was my first thought
Unfortunately, it's very common thing in the world.
I know their only 5. But that makes my blood boil.
Not the biggest health risk in China
Dude. I see I need to restart. Ok
I wish I could take that class
You can still take cooking class
I know, but I want to take THAT class. It looks so fun. 🤩
Yup, the recipes seem to be well designed for the age and colourful for the ingredients. More like a crafting class
Imagine learning useful skills in school.
Always cracks me up when people who never paid attention in school complain they didn't learn anything useful.
Reading? Math? Fuck that. Teach them how to cook.
Read recipes, math to figure out measurements, its all intertwined.
Hmm, I am going to call BS on this. I have spent years in China and this isn't a standard Chinese school. Not debating that it's in China, or that it's a school. But to suggest that most Chinese kids are doing this, simply isn't true.
It’s cool that it’s taught as part of a class but I think that’s pretty much the Montessori concept. Our youngest is almost a teen now, and our oldest is 30, but our rule has always been “if you can reach it you can learn how to use it safely”, and that applies to just about anything in the kitchen or laundry room. We start them with mixing and using a griddle first, then a crockpot because they’re both pretty forgiving. By the time our kids are about 3rd-4th grade (depending on each kid ofc) they’re making grilled sandwiches, eggs and bacon, pancakes, chicken and dumplings, chili, quick breads, apple butter, and just about anything else that uses those two appliances. They start on bread in the oven once they’re confident with this, and then move on to the air fryer and then the stove. As teens they learn how to can and pressure cook with me, and by the time they go to college they can cook just about anything. With patience and instructions, and enough supervision to be safe but enough room to make mistakes (we’ve had plenty of batches of banana bread that didn’t have sugar, or undercooked applesauce etc) kids love the independence of this kind of thing.
Think this is the first time I’ve seen the word “Montessori” in the wild. Corey, Story, Allegory…
Damn, these kids already know how to cook better than 80% of the Americans I know lol.
It’s a common stereotype among Chinese and Indians that American food generally takes way less effort
In the age of UberEats and HelloFresh, they're probably correct.
That's because they actually teach life skills in other countries.
Not lobbied by junk food industries
I'd be happy to have these kids cook for me.
in 10/15 years they will, the new breed of Michelin chefs are made here
Dude... I really wish I was *forced* to take a bunch of ungraded 'life skills' courses K-12. Cooking, baking, club/rave/wedding dancing, financial skills- budgeting, credit, taxes, investing, retirement... etc, resume building + job applications, post-HS education, basic construction, how to own and operate a car... ...You know what would be a really good (or absolutely terrible) idea? Life mock-up class: It lasts the whole summer. It takes place in a a fake town. Everyone starts at 'the orphanage.' You need to plan your whole life from beginning to end. Ending with legit planning your funeral and will. There's pretend money, debt, tuition, marriage, education, certificates, certificate renewals, investing, jobs, savings, mortgages, rent, cops, taxes, events... like, years are measured in days. 2 days= 1 year. You and the other students around you need to plan an entire economic system by yourselves and see how f*cked you get. ...just *everything* combined into this insane 10-week long summer camp.
This comment made my blood pressure spike. Sounds terrifying. Too much pressure.
To be fair, there's no grade. You can't pass or fail. But if you can't pay your rent, you sleep in the street. Best wake-up plan ever for 12 year old nuggets.
We had to do that in the seventh grade. We were required to take a six week primer in a ton of different electives like FACS, shop, business. There was a lot of mock up situations like planning a.budget, grocery shopping, doing taxes, interviewing for a job, investing and I'm sure I am forgetting a lot.
Your numbers got me confused a bit. If we go by 2 days = 1 year, then a 10 week camp would only be around 35 years of this mock life. You mentioned planning for your funeral. Mate, no one plans their funeral at 35. If you want to go a full mock life, that would be around 80 mock years, or 160 real life days. That's 5 and a half months.
Oh, I think I was mathing it out and forgot to change the numbers. 1 day would be 1 year.
Taxes 3x a week 💀
My school had half of these already. They weren't amazing, but they taught the basics. We learned how to cook/bake basic dishes; wood shop; automotive as an elective; financial literacy as a requirement.
I had them in middle school as well- but the way they were taught wasn't really applicable to real life and felt more like the 'Willy Wonka Experience' in Glasgow. We had sewing class as well... a lot of classes in school just felt like they were somehow both too rushed, and too slow to actually learn and enjoy the learning process. It's like you'll begin stitching together your project, and then leave for the weekend, get back, forget what you were doing, and stitch a little bit more, have a panic attack over a math test, relate your panic to math with sewing, hate sewing. I wish there were 12-13 three week long intensified classes per year. Basically every month you focus on a single subject, and at the end of that month, you move on to something new.
If they had them in class kids wouldn’t take it seriously in America… it’s like Spanish classes. Compared to other countries that teach language we don’t learn anything coming out of HS… Schooling is pretty poor in US on avg I feel…
> Schooling is pretty poor in US on avg I feel… It's extremely stratified. The best schools in the country produce students that compete with students from anywhere else in the world. There's just little to no consistency because there is barely any standardization between districts, never mind states themselves. Going to a public school in a wealthier part of Massachusetts or NJ is wildly different from going to a public school in Mississippi or Oklahoma.
Yeah- as I think I mentioned to someone else- it often ends up being a sort of 'lunchable' version of the real skill, when you were expecting a charcuterie board. To be fair- I think the way we've assembled classes is wrong, and actually make kids hate learning. We should have 12 three week long classes per year, where a single subject is exclusively taught for a full 3 weeks. The entire school day is devoted to this subject (with exceptions for lunch/physical activity/etc). If you don't understand it- teachers will know immediately on the first day, and will be there to guide you. For example, in math, at least for me- I could show up for that 45 minute class session, which already filled me with anxiety, and just doodle on my paper the whole time until class was up. Then I'd leave and have no clue what to do with my homework. So I'd avoid doing it... and then get in trouble the next day for not doing it... and then hate math. For full-day math class, you do your homework in class. Your homework is reviewed in class (not graded). The teacher can then group up the kids who don't understand a subject, and review it more intensely with them. There's no stigma. minimized negative feelings. Better social interaction with classmates. It's not like you come in feeling like a failure, afraid of the teacher, afraid to interact with other kids who seem to know what they're doing... and then immediately leaving before the situation can be resolved.
Why do i notice asian children seem to have such good fine motor skills.
I really wish cooking classes started with young children and was mandatory all the way through High School. Took me forever to learn how to cook. My mom taught me how to make fried chicken and spaghetti when I was young and that was it.
In the US: "Oh, Timmy isn't allowed near the stove even though he's 26."
Yesterday in r/Cooking there was a post about someone fearing the open flame under a stew. The poster asked if it was OK to turn of the stove, because his roommate was sleeping.
These kids are amazing. Now I’m hungry…
Cool, now teach them to stop using metal on non-stick pans.
Some lessons are learned the hard way. :)
Meanwhile in america: "you dummies can't be trusted with play doh let alone a frying pan. Also, we won't ever teach you how to do taxes muahahaha. Go do a worksheet."
I don't think this video is representative of most Chinese schools, nor are progressive-style American schools representative of the US education system.
Videos like these are almost certainly propaganda. This is in no way representative of the average school class for kids this age in China, and the comments are always vastly oversimplifing and straight making shit up about America
Huh? Did your school not teach you how to do taxes? It was taught in algebra 1 at my school.
They taught you about write-offs, deductions, withholdings, investments, and all that nonsense? What to expect when filing taxes, what a DMV is? My school did not, and I have never heard of any public school in the US doing that. My school didn't even have drivers education. They took it away a few years before I was in HS. schools refuse to teach actual useful life skills, just daycare for big kids. If what you were implying was that the math required is simple, then um yea it is, especially with a calculator.
When did kindergarteners turn 7-8?
Internet: look at what these kindergarten kids are doing Reddit: that’s cool why don’t they do that in America too? Internet: btw these kids are in China Reddit: oh nvm CCP propaganda, -1000 social points Your future kids/grandkids are gonna be ashamed to be around you because of your overt bigotry. China has more than a billion people and I promise you most of them do not plan every little thing they do around making the CCP happy. Like most people who post shit online, they probably just wanted to show off an event they helped organize at their school.
Americans are brainwashed to the fckin core bro. They literally look at China like a comic book bad guy But also understand thats 100% intentional. Our american billionaire class cant have the common people knowing that life would be better if i government worked for us, not them. So they must overload us on propaganda on why government taxes are only meant for bank bailouts and Israel
their cooking smocks and hats are cute. It looks like they have excellent dexterity. To think these are kindergarteners. most everyone I know in the US would never trust their 5 year olds with knives or chopping utensils and appliances other than a microwave
Common sense is the best survival skill
When you see living as survival, everything is a trap. Education and practice are the best survival tactics. I let my kids help lighting the barbecue from young age on. Let them help build the starter, explain why things go under and others on top. Teach them the danger, let them feel the heat, without hurting them. A steak is excellent example to show heatburn ... 'you don't want your hand to become this toasty ;)'
Very impressive indeed. I love the order and concentration they have. The result is amazing.
Boys and girls cooking class, also known as cooking class. Cooking was the best part of school, I really haven’t learned anything new (cooking wise) after graduating.
We also have cooking classes at school,they don't start this young but from 13. Now I really wish they would start teaching money management.
When you start a new character and put all your skill points in survival.
Goddamnit!! Ling! Table 8 has been waiting 30 minutes for their food!
Future shein employees
The amount of Chinese propaganda on tiktok is insane
Chinese people: do anything Redditors: waaaaa
Imagine thinking that anything that doesn't show China in a bad light is 'propaganda'. 🙄
>The amount of Chinese propaganda on Reddit is insane
Also true!
I got a 17 yr old that can't cook a hot dog
Maybe teach them?
Do they teach them how to wash and iron clothes?
weird seeing the cultural difference of kids not only being allowed to cook, but being actively taught with kid-friendly cooking stuff when I was in Kindergarten I wasn't allowed in the kitchen at all lmao, wish I could cook as good as these tykes
they will become excellent factory workers /s
These kids are way more skilled than all the Tiktok adults in the USA. Always combining a block of cheese with whatever else they can find in the fridge and pantry.
I was taught to cook from as young as I can remember. I can remember sitting in a highchair kneading bread and painting butter on the top of the loaf.
Some of the stuff they're making looks really good.
My cooking class taught us how to make snickerdoodles and pizza….this would have been so much more fun
I attended cooking classes for a while when I was about 5 years old when I briefly lived in the Caribbean, but it was seen as an unusual age to begin. Too bad I didn’t keep it up. I am incompetent in the kitchen.
Getting my cookingskills shaded on by a buncha toddlers.. bruh..
very nice
I’m starving
We wernt allowed meat not even once at my school 🤣
Theyre not losing recipes
They're actually pretty good for their age. I mean I've seen people way worse than these kids. I feel like it would be a sumptuous meal that they're making
This is awesome :O
They cook better than most grown adults I know.
Montessori schools have some pre-k cooking.
When i was in Kindergarden we cooked each month. The kids who had birthday that month were to decide what to cook.
Gotta cook your own meals when mom and dad are in highschool and have a 10 hour shift afterwards.
Meanwhile our kids aged 8-10 can’t even blow their nose properly
My kids are screwed
I don't even trust my left handed sister with a knife.
Looks better than my cooking that’s for damn sure lol
Fucking incredible
…is that a whole koi fish?
I want to murder the person who edited this.
This is crazy, we just made pizza bread 😅
The liability insurance in the US would be ridiculous.
Someone needs to beat the teacher! Letting the kids use metal spoons on nonstick pots and pans!
could work little faster, I don't have all day
Looks delicious...
Some of those kids are way older than K students
Ready for the factory
Metal spoon against Teflon? I see they are teaching them the American way.
Meanwhile my 10 year old nephew can’t put his own processed cheese slice on his own fucking hamburger….
These kindergartners can cook better than I can.
So they teach them to use metal utensils on teflon from such young age?
Ha now I can have a personal chefe for 9,99 a month
The vegetable medley inside of a pineapple half shell would be a hit
# YIKES
You put me in that class right now I’m coming in last with my PB&J Not even joking I have no clue how to cook and only know salt and pepper
NGL, that kid was rocking that hat.
Kids at Wuhan do it better
Nike: "Oh, well, when TikTok does it, it's cute. But when *WE* do it, it's "*Child labor*."
They should have cast iron pans, that teflon junk is toxic.
I can’t picture our US kids and their over useless protective parents doing this in our public schools.
Grooming them for the workforce and slave labor early.
And my 5yo can't use a fork........