Unpopular Opinion

I’ll even say it’s worth paying more ….. instead of a textbook, every kid should have a subscription to one of those meal kit services. Yeah, they’re expensive, but worked really well for teaching my kids a lot about cooking.

Every week, they chose among a dozen or so choices, instead of being overwhelmed with infinite choice or stuck in a rut of what you know. Every week, they know to expect to make a meal. Every week, they have all the ingredients together in one place. Every week, they have a well-written recipe card organized for efficient preparation and with little assumption of experience. Every week, the6 learned something about prep or a cooking strategy or an ingredient or a cuisine. It worked great for my kids and I wish they were affordable for all kids

Your country must be paying the teachers big bucks.

Agree it should be taught. It was in my school for half a semester and I still recall much of it. Is a life skill. The other half should be sold financial literacy. Basic accounting.

That being said, it will make near zero difference for obesity. Prepared food is easier and cheaper to access rapidly than at anytime in the past. It is our choice what we eat and the effort we put into it and only itself to blame if we eat poorly. If people wanted to eat healthy, I and sure McDonalds would have more salad options than burger options.

Yeah, so what subjects are they going to cut to teach cooking instead?

There is zero chance they are going to make the school day longer, so there are only so many hours in the week for classes. So if you add a subject, then you have to remove some other subject.

Too expensive. Rich people taxes would have to pay for it. How can we whittle the class down to paperwork, paper homework, and study hall? /s