a lot of people in that state are just vegetables
Make Home Ec a required course, teach them how to cook, what to do with fruits and vegetables, and how to shop for dinner on a budget. How to bake your own bread, mend a shirt, grow tomatoes and herbs in a window box. It will stand every one of them in good stead.
No, Johnny...growing “THAT” herb will not get you an “A”.
;^)