apparently corn is a grain

[Ningyou]

actually, corn is batman

[Ad Bot]

[Tokthree]

All you have to do is look at how they grow, really.

Pfft, what kind of looooooooooooooser watches plants grow?

[SWAT One]

Fun fact:  Banana plants are in fact grasses.  Also the banana fruit is botanically described as a berry.  I stuff you not.

[sir dooble]

Fun fact:  Banana plants are in fact grasses.  Also the banana fruit is botanically described as a berry.  I stuff you not.

Lots of things are technically berries. Grapes are berries too, as are Pumpkins and tomatos.

Yet Strawberry, Raspberry and Blackberry aren't berries, in the botanical sense.

[Rooged]

guys im in loving college and didnt know this
wtf public school

[Headcrab Zombie]

Don't worry, none of my schools had botany classes either, and there's more important things for general biology classes to cover
My food and nutrition classes taught according to the food pyramid, which labels corn as a vegetable

[sir dooble]

Don't worry, none of my schools had botany classes either, and there's more important things for general biology classes to cover
My food and nutrition classes taught according to the food pyramid, which labels corn as a vegetable

Same here.
I only really learnt that grains were a grass through TV shows, like QI. Also a David Attenborough documentary on plants, which covered grasses.

[Tokthree]

Same here.
I only really learnt that grains were a grass through TV shows, like QI. Also a David Attenborough documentary on plants, which covered grasses.

Wtf, I was taught about grains and stuff in primary school. How is that possible when we were both taught the same national curriculum?

[sir dooble]

Wtf, I was taught about grains and stuff in primary school. How is that possible when we were both taught the same national curriculum?

I don't think anyone overly checks what primary schools are teaching. There aren't exactly any exams, (bar SATs), so primary schools get a pretty much free-reign to teach specific things as they see fit.
Like, we learnt about vegetables, fruits, plants, flowers, pollination, food groups, etc... But there wasn't anything specifically on grains, bar them being a big part in the food groups. Nothing to teach that they're grasses, or fruits, nor all the different types of grain.

And while we knew of grains, I suppose the likes of wheat and barley were more prevalent than corn.
For starters, my primary school was in the South West, where there are farms everywhere, and everyone had seen a field of wheat.

And, although it may not impact on it, my primary school was a Church of England school, so there was probably some skimming of time from other subjects to teach RE and give religious assemblies and visits to the church.

[Tokthree]

I went to a Christian primary and highschool so that can't be it. I always assumed that the national curriculum had a strict set of subjects that NEEDED to be taught and always assumed that, since it takes so bloody long to actually get to the point where you've learnt enough that you're allowed to take your exams, there's no room in the lessons for anything other than what is absolutely required

[sir dooble]

Well, for secondary school that's definitely true, since the exams have a set mark scheme.
But primary schools have to cover a number of topics, but can do so however they please. And there's wiggle room for individual teachers to teach different things. Since there aren't any exams at the end of Primary school you don't need to have learnt specific things, just a general area.

Plus having no exams means Primary schools have more free-time to teach what they want, so they can make use of what is around them.
For example, I would wager that you probably didn't learn too much in Primary school about the RNLI, nor how a harbour works.
But my primary school was in a sea-side town, with a large harbour full of boats and it's own RNLI station.

Whereas there might be a number of things that you were taught about, but my school never really covered.

[Tokthree]

But... I live in Liverpool and I still didn't learn about harbours