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home economics?
Family and consumer sciences?
Perhaps one of my readers who has recently wrapped up a junior high school and/or high school career or their parent(s) could answer a dumb question. Do schools have shop and/or home ec classes anymore? I recognize they aren't mandatory anymore (and haven't been for a long while), and they may have combined or metamorphosed and/or changed names, but basically I'm trying to find out if there are any classes in junior high or high school which attempt to teach kids how to do things like cook, sew, use wood or metalworking tools, etc. I know some schools have gardens and classes associated with them ranging from biology to cooking to nutrition and so forth.
And if home ec literally died, which decade did it in? Was it the nineties or the aughties?
Perhaps one of my readers who has recently wrapped up a junior high school and/or high school career or their parent(s) could answer a dumb question. Do schools have shop and/or home ec classes anymore? I recognize they aren't mandatory anymore (and haven't been for a long while), and they may have combined or metamorphosed and/or changed names, but basically I'm trying to find out if there are any classes in junior high or high school which attempt to teach kids how to do things like cook, sew, use wood or metalworking tools, etc. I know some schools have gardens and classes associated with them ranging from biology to cooking to nutrition and so forth.
And if home ec literally died, which decade did it in? Was it the nineties or the aughties?
home ec/ shop/etc
(Anonymous) 2010-04-24 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)An aside: Molly's lowest grade ever was in the quarter when she was taught to iron. She got a D. She gave me the report card and announced that I was not to say one critical word about her D in ironing. She said, and she was right, that I couldn't do any better than she had.
In high school they offer all those courses as electives. Our exchange student Lennart took a cooking class he really liked. Lots of kids do a four year series in various shop/tech/ CAD stuff.
We'll see if those programs survive this year's budget cuts.