Started to phase out by mid 90's and under Bush's No Child Left Behind act of 2004 vocational classes were really hard to find in high schools. By 2009 Congress passed a College readiness act that required states to report the number of kids who graduated HS and then went on to college. High schools were incentivized to offer more college prep courses but the budget was the budget...no money in the budget for vocational classes..
I graduated in the mid 80's and was required to take home economics, sewing, or some sort of shop class...oh, and typing. I still use what I learned in wood shop to this day...don't ask me to solve an algebra problem though.
Chief, sorry if typo. Sine= Opposite/Hypotenuse (SOH), Cosine=Adjacent/Hypotenuse (CAH), Tangent=Opposite/Adjacent (TOA). Simplest mnemonic for the angle/side relationships in triangles, which every angle could be made into, which were the basis for nearly all the critical proofs of geometry and trigonometry.
Any makers, carpenters would benefit from these directly, CAD amateurs and professional engineers as well. Heck, I was helping a friend set up a jig for her pottery and it was useful. There is SO MUCH that has been eliminated from government daycare indoctrination center curriculum, it's no wonder the graduates are useless for daily living.
Started to phase out by mid 90's and under Bush's No Child Left Behind act of 2004 vocational classes were really hard to find in high schools. By 2009 Congress passed a College readiness act that required states to report the number of kids who graduated HS and then went on to college. High schools were incentivized to offer more college prep courses but the budget was the budget...no money in the budget for vocational classes.. I graduated in the mid 80's and was required to take home economics, sewing, or some sort of shop class...oh, and typing. I still use what I learned in wood shop to this day...don't ask me to solve an algebra problem though.
Same here, use it all, but I went into Landscape Design and finally found a use for my Algebra! Kek! I had to relearn it all.
Algebra and trigonometry are very useful in making all kinds of things, and no graduates we interview can do any of it Not even chef soh cah toa.
What is this: 'chef soh cah toa'?
Chief, sorry if typo. Sine= Opposite/Hypotenuse (SOH), Cosine=Adjacent/Hypotenuse (CAH), Tangent=Opposite/Adjacent (TOA). Simplest mnemonic for the angle/side relationships in triangles, which every angle could be made into, which were the basis for nearly all the critical proofs of geometry and trigonometry.
Any makers, carpenters would benefit from these directly, CAD amateurs and professional engineers as well. Heck, I was helping a friend set up a jig for her pottery and it was useful. There is SO MUCH that has been eliminated from government daycare indoctrination center curriculum, it's no wonder the graduates are useless for daily living.
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YES!! I took a couple typing classes in high school and I'm so grateful I did! When computers entered the scene, I was ready to go.
Yes, for me too. Learning typing freshman year ended up getting me my first job. I could type so fast, too.