farming as part of the curriculum? If not, why not?

THis will not be in any public schools. Public schools are mandated to follow the NCLB law which focuses on math and reading.
THey have to pass tests so the school can get more money.
It's all about the money, they don't care if kids learn anything or not.
It has been proven that schools have gotten much WORSE since this law started.

In small rural communities. I applied several years ago to such a community in Arizona. It's economy was based on cotton production. There was a REQUIRED course for this. I think it was called Agricultural Studies (or something like that) It focused on proper planting methods, how to drive the machine that chops the cotton (combine I believe it is called)

Like I said, this was some years ago, but since this was the bread and butter of this community, they required this class to graduate.

In this age of technology, fewer and fewer young people are choosing farming as a career. Plus school budgets the way they are, cannot afford such classes anymore. They are usually the first on the chopping block.

Most high schools have an FFA program which teaches farming methods along with judging cattle etc.

What is arable farming?

We can thank state boards of education for stressing math, science and english skills rather than life skills.

If driver's education was mandatory your freshman year in high school, as it was when I was in high school, there would be fewer teen deaths caused by auto crashes. You can't cram all the necessary learning into three months.

We did our classroom work during school, and the driving part during the summer.

There is too much emphasis on getting our young people into college. But not everyone is destined to go to college, so we also need to put more attention on getting through life without a PH.D.