In some countries, secondary schools provide students with an opportunity to learn skills such as cooking, basic repairs, drawing and woodwork. What are the advantages and disadvantages of teaching such non-academic classes in school?

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methods are pedagogically essential to our daily lives because
such
an opportunity to learn those
subjects
doesn't exist after graduating from secondary
schools
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.
Therefore
, some countries adopt to introduce
such
classes in those schools. Depending on the value systems, the answer about
this
system's pros and cons varies from person to person. All in all, I will explain these advantages and disadvantages.
Firstly
, one of the most crucial advantages is that we can gain the ability of our housekeeping, which leads to cost
saving
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. For many people, how to implement its task had not been recognized until they learned these
subjects
in their schools.
Therefore
, not having learned them, I couldn't have kept my room clean.
Furthermore
, these skills don’t need a professional cleaning service, which means it saves much more money.
Secondly
, regarding
disadvantages
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of non-academic classes, I reckon that
time
to learn other crucial
subjects
required for our professions may disappear, which
also
decreases our motivation to serve scientific jobs that need much
time
to learn. In the case of my experience, scientific classes didn't have enough
time
to learn them thoroughly.
Therefore
, we had to study these
subjects
' problems that I could barely solve by myself without an appropriate explanation, which may not have been impossible for many students to comprehend.
Furthermore
, those students may be discouraged
to major
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science
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like mechanics and chemistry, which are crucial to our society’s development. In conclusion, the advantages of
subjects
in
this
topic are to learn housekeeping, which may keep our houses clean
as well as
save our money because of these skills, and the opposite is to decrease the
time
to learn essential
subjects
which need appropriate teaching by professors in students’ school, and
this
may disappoint many promising students to major science
due to
feel their incompetence.
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