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re: When did Women stop taking Home Economics?
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:02 pm to CatFan81
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:02 pm to CatFan81
That's fine. I wish I knew how to sew. I took Home Ec, but it didn't take.
Being able to make stuff and cook well is an art. I'm always disappointed when I find so many women abhor the idea of cooking, or even knowing how to.
Hell, I'm proud to be able to cook well. I don't view it as oppressive but rather:
1. Smart
2. Frugal
3. Culturally important (old recipes & such)
4. Healthier
Being able to make stuff and cook well is an art. I'm always disappointed when I find so many women abhor the idea of cooking, or even knowing how to.
Hell, I'm proud to be able to cook well. I don't view it as oppressive but rather:
1. Smart
2. Frugal
3. Culturally important (old recipes & such)
4. Healthier
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Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:03 pm to CheeseburgerEddie
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do they teach any economics lessons in home economics?
frick if I know. I never took it.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:03 pm to BarberitosDawg
I keep my house cleaner than most women do. Also cook better than most of them do. and f'k all the beta responses
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:04 pm to CatFan81
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I have no desire to know how to sew and shite like that though. That's what a tailor is for.
I learned from my mother when we moved into the house we are in now. I needed about 16 sets of curtains, and many would have needed to be custom lengths. I didn't want to pay that much, so I learned to make them myself.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:04 pm to UMRealist
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advanced pe? lol
Yes. In Virginia PE was only required through the 10th grade. In your junior and senior years you could take Advanced PE which was a lot of team sports and weight lifting. Mostly athletes took it.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:06 pm to CatFan81
I didn't even know PE was required in some schools until recently. We had PE in grade school but 7th grade on we used those time periods for whatever sport was in season. If you didn't play some kind of sport at my school you were in the vast minority.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:07 pm to UMRealist
I took it. Only other option was a woodworking class from a guy who never gave anything higher than a C. That or take Home Ec with mostly the ladies. Teacher loved us guys who took it.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:07 pm to UMRealist
Does warcraft count as a sport?
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:08 pm to CatFan81
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Yes. In Virginia PE was only required through the 10th grade. In your junior and senior years you could take Advanced PE which was a lot of team sports and weight lifting. Mostly athletes took it.
My school in Alabama did the same except it wasn't called Advanced PE. I think on the report card it just said athletics and it counted as an elective.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:09 pm to CAT
Our school didn't have any of these extracurricular's like PE and home ec or woodshop. You just went home if you weren't an athlete.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:09 pm to The Spleen
It was an elective for us too. Home Ec was too for the people that wanted to take it. Not many people wanted to take it.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:11 pm to BarberitosDawg
We had Home Ec in middle school.
I could cook better than the dumbass teaching it. Especially when you consider related arts/electives like that are usually a dumping ground for teachers who can't cut it in a core content area.
I could cook better than the dumbass teaching it. Especially when you consider related arts/electives like that are usually a dumping ground for teachers who can't cut it in a core content area.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:15 pm to BarberitosDawg
Home Ec was a laughable attempt by the schools to try and teach kids what their parents should be doing at home anyway
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:18 pm to cokebottleag
I will say that I'd have no problem with boys and girls taking a life skills class. I'm talking about stuff similar to home ec but without the negative connotation. We've done a little bit of it with our middle schoolers in teaching them how to do things like open a bank account/balance a checkbook, how to create a resume, etc.
You would be surprised at just how many don't have a fricking clue about stuff like that. And most of the ones I work with are going to have to wing it on their own to make it anyway.
You would be surprised at just how many don't have a fricking clue about stuff like that. And most of the ones I work with are going to have to wing it on their own to make it anyway.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:22 pm to BluegrassBelle
Finances are something different, but would kids actually pay attention to that?
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:26 pm to CatFan81
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I took advanced PE instead.
Home ec would have been way more useful.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:27 pm to BluegrassBelle
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open a bank account/balance a checkbook
That should be mandatory curriculum
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:29 pm to TreyAnastasio
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Home ec would have been way more useful.
Not for me...
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:30 pm to Rebelgator
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That should be mandatory curriculum
Balancing a checkbook? I haven't even seen a checkbook in years.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 3:31 pm to CatFan81
Okay... Online account....
Teach the frickers to invest in stocks and not goddamn Nikes too.
Teach the frickers to invest in stocks and not goddamn Nikes too.
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