A Food-Related Magnet School
Kim Severson of the New York Times checks in on the nation's first high school dedicated to the food business, Food and Finance High School in New York City. What a brilliant idea, given the explosive growth in restaurant-related jobs all over the world.
They learn math by measuring ingredients for a cake or by writing a business plan for a restaurant. They can earn science credits by raising bok choy hydroponically and tending to tanks of tilapia designed by a scientist from the Cornell University Cooperative Extension.
That's my kind of curriculum. One only hopes that other school systems around the country follow suit.
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