And Home Economics. Teach the kids how to run a clothes washer, fix a button, balance a checkbook, make breakfast.
As a degreed Mechanical Engineer, I'd love to get my teaching certificate and (with a little help from a certain Ape friendly stock) I could bring back the local high school Automotive Shop and give the youth some real-world skills before they turn 18.
Home Ec was useless when I was in middle school (we called it Junior High back then) or maybe it was more like our teacher was useless. We didn't do anything but sit around and talk, think we cooked 1 time. At that age I had already been cooking dinner every night and cleaning up afterwards for my family, along with all my chores on weekends. Heck I was washing dishes since I had to stand on a chair to reach the sink, every night after dinner. Any sewing I know I learned from my mom, she could put an outfit together in one evening, wake up next morning it would be hanging on my door all pressed and ready to wear. However, I've never liked to sew, but know the basics. But back then times were different.
I second your views. I took a semester of Home Economics back in the day, because I thought it was going to be an easy class. How hard could cooking be? (Helped at home every night from scratch). I learned a lot from the teach (Mrs. Brown). She taught cuts of meats, where said cuts came from and from what animal. How to use products for multi uses instead of one use (vinegar for example). She went over how to budget for a household and they how to apply that said budget to our daily lives. It was such a great class.
It would be a great thing for our (meaning country) to quit putting down vocational/trade schools. I have heard so many people talk down about trade schools. My hubby is one of the best in the state for wallcovering installation. He is a dying breed. The "union" keeps asking him to teach, but, there are some things you learn on the job, you have to do the work while being taught.
YES!
And Home Economics. Teach the kids how to run a clothes washer, fix a button, balance a checkbook, make breakfast.
As a degreed Mechanical Engineer, I'd love to get my teaching certificate and (with a little help from a certain Ape friendly stock) I could bring back the local high school Automotive Shop and give the youth some real-world skills before they turn 18.
Home Ec was useless when I was in middle school (we called it Junior High back then) or maybe it was more like our teacher was useless. We didn't do anything but sit around and talk, think we cooked 1 time. At that age I had already been cooking dinner every night and cleaning up afterwards for my family, along with all my chores on weekends. Heck I was washing dishes since I had to stand on a chair to reach the sink, every night after dinner. Any sewing I know I learned from my mom, she could put an outfit together in one evening, wake up next morning it would be hanging on my door all pressed and ready to wear. However, I've never liked to sew, but know the basics. But back then times were different.
Wow. That's a shame. Sadly more and more public education classes nowadays are getting just as bad.
Home economics got too much of a bad rap
I second your views. I took a semester of Home Economics back in the day, because I thought it was going to be an easy class. How hard could cooking be? (Helped at home every night from scratch). I learned a lot from the teach (Mrs. Brown). She taught cuts of meats, where said cuts came from and from what animal. How to use products for multi uses instead of one use (vinegar for example). She went over how to budget for a household and they how to apply that said budget to our daily lives. It was such a great class.
It would be a great thing for our (meaning country) to quit putting down vocational/trade schools. I have heard so many people talk down about trade schools. My hubby is one of the best in the state for wallcovering installation. He is a dying breed. The "union" keeps asking him to teach, but, there are some things you learn on the job, you have to do the work while being taught.