We’re in an obesity epidemic and most people don’t know how to cook even very basic meals.
Make space for it, squish other classes if you need. Make it mandatory, everyone has to take it. Maybe even ongoing through multiple grades.
Edit: Rice, beans, and even basic meats are cheap. To eat healthy you don’t need your meal to be 100% Bell peppers and tomatoes.
There is a reason they intentionally do not teach basic life skills in school. Just like they do not teach you about money, taxes and finance.
There is no conspiracy. Try teaching paying taxes to someone who won’t have to do it for a couple of years. There’s zero interest.
Instead you’re taught everything you - realistically - should need to know in order to learn by yourself, how to pay taxes.
People just like complaining. Guaranteed if we taught taxes to high schoolers they’d complain that it’s one of the more boring required classes like government and econ. Kids already hate reading assignments and math enough without taxes involved.
To be fair, there’s zero interest in most of what is taught in schools. Kids hate learning for the most part, unless it’s a rare topic that truly engages them. They’d rather be anywhere but school.
We teach wealthy kids these important life skills, but we don’t teach the poorer kids. Hmmm.
Do they not teach home economics anymore?
Also, a lot of finance applicable stuff is found in math. It’s no coincidence that the majority of people don’t know finances and the majority of people also brag about how much they ignored or hated math class.
No, as far as I can tell, none of the schools my kids attended had any Home Ec. Even back “in the good old days”, my high school had Home Ec, but it wasn’t recommended for kids on the college track.
One school did have personal finance though, and it was taught well enough to interest my older kid. I don’t know what they covered for taxes
and what do you think that reason is?
Public school and its education is not as it is advertised. In the US when the government introuced public education, they presented it in a way to let any American have the oppertunity to become well educated and smart and in many ways this is true. However the politicians did not want to give the masses education were they upcoming generation will not be too smart to understand how the world truly works.
School and society as a whole raises you to be the best consumer possible.
Why don’t they teach you to cook, so your likely going to eat out more. Why don’'t they teach you finance, so your likely living by paycheck to paycheck. Oviously teachers are not holding this back from students because they wish to keep their students down. Teachers only focus on following the curriculum.
Also look at how many politicians send their kids to private schools.