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On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 09:16:09 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

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Yeah, what ever happened to "Home Ec"? I guess it was too sexist ...
like "shop".

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Home Ec was dropped in favor of sex education years ago.

The powers to be decided that knowing how to cook wasn't really
important but knowing how to .... well, you get my drift.

I've never seen one bit of evidence that Home Economics was dropped in
favor of Sex Education.

I agree. Home Ec was dropped because it was seen as sexist and shop
was dropped because it implied that everyone was not going to go to
college.
Now we have home makers who do not have a clue how to prepare
nutritious meals and think they need a licensed union electrician to
put a plug on a lamp but not a clue how they could become that person.

I don't know the shop classes you took but, the ones that I took in 7th, 8th and 9th grade
were invaluable in determining what I like to do and what I wanted to do in the future. I
even took an auto mechanics class and an electronics class. The one the served me the best
was the MIS class.