It is often suggested that schoolchildren should learn how to grow vegetables and keep animals. What are the advantages and disadvantages? Do you think that advantage of this outweigh the disadvantage?

Schoolchildren

usually learn how to grow

vegetables

and keep

animals

for various purposes. Assuming that these situations are often decided by the

schoolchildren

's parents or by teachers, children probably don't have the possibility to choose whether to learn these things or not.  Having said that, in my opinion, there could be many advantages. First of all, children could improve their responsibilities for keeping

animals

. I think that because they have to teach them,

for example

saying

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them how to eat and to act when they are in a public place. Pets can

also

improve their happiness and keep them company. Talking about

vegetables

,

schoolchildren

also

need to learn how to maintain them. So children could face

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problems or situations they usually don't see in their regular days. Regarding the disadvantages, I think that our lives are more based on technology

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before and to grow

vegetables

could be unusual and not pretty useful,

for example

. Talking about

to keep

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animals

, like dogs or cats

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example, I don't see any type of disadvantage. In conclusion, the advantages are more than

disadvantages

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, so I believe

schoolchildren

should learn how to grow

vegetables

and keep

animals

. When they will grow up they will decide whether to do these things or not.