Core curriculums vs "electives"
In highschool, we had "core" classes that are required for graduation. Math, History, English, etc.
We had "electives" too. A certain number of elective credits are required to graduate, but not specific ones. Wood shop, cooking, sewing, robotics, metal fab, etc.
I think some of them are backwards, or at least the priority is wrong. I agree that most of the core classes need to be required in some way (ignoring the existence of bias in the lesson plans and versions of truth), but some of them do not need to take up nearly as much of the available learning time as they do. Especially considering that COOKING is one of the most basic life skills everyone should have and an embarrassing number of people nowadays have never even cooked a fucking egg.
Edit: I think that some sort of business/personal finance 101 class was an elective too, but I can't remember the name. Argue all you want on behalf of the other core classes and how much or little time they deserved, but cooking & a basic financial lesson should absofuckinglutely be part of the core curriculum.