AIBU To pull my son out of food tech?

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To pull my son out of food tech.
My son isn't a bad cook at home, but at school most of the dishes are costing between £5-8 to make and are inedible. We have also lost 3 containers because of kids just grabbing whichever one looks best rather than their own!
AIBU to refuse to send stuff in from now on? He is only in year 8 so we have at least another year of this shit.

Well 2 of my kids ( same school 12 years apart) had the buy tinned apples for crumble scenerio. Never ever had fruit prep lessons. Although DS was taught to cut up peppers etc at nursery aged 4@

I silently have the vapours when DH washes up and does the glasses at some random point in the process instead of first. 😬😁

Yup - glassware first. Always.

@sashh I'm a bit disappointed there's no 'magic' new Finnish steps that I wasn't previously aware of, just additional detail of the process and a different end point. Oh, and I leave things to air dry rather than towel drying them.

Raise your concerns but grin and bear it for another year. It will just result in DS getting detentions for not bringing ingredients. That’s how schools are nowadays. Ex secondary teacher of 25 service.

Food tech is always inedible. My dc's weren't interested in eating what they'd cooked after it had been hanging around all day. It was still a useful lesson though.

i wash out and keep my butter tubs for exactly this reason, if an old butter tub gets lost or broken im not worried, most of the things my son brings home is pretty good but at his school they now set a food tasks eg last week he had to make an italian pasta dish and they get to choose what they make (he made spaghetti and meatballs) or a few weeks ago they had a group task of bbq food and each child in his group had to bring in a different component so someone brought in the stuff to make burgers, my DS made stuffed potato skins someone else in his group made chillidogs etc which is much better than when my DD done it which was the same as many PPs (omelette, flapjack etc).
edited to add: his food tech lessons are always the last lesson of the day too so if he overruns by 15 mins it doesn’t matter too much as he wont be late till next lesson and the food isn’t hanging around all day either.

That’s ok, there’s a fair amount of criticism on this thread.

I wonder how many folk have tried to teach the rudiments of cooking to 20 kids, making things they’ll find interesting within an hours time limit. I’m appreciative of their teachers efforts because it’s made them more interested in cooking at home, and they’re very proud of every foil packed dish they bring home.

I'd speak to the school about the issues.

I've got cheap containers from Sainsburys (like takeaway ones, 5 for £1) and luckily our school make the cost very reasonable - they supply the more expensive ingredients, we just need flour, veg etc

LTB.