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Russia has the same system, and at least 10 years ago it still wasn't unisex. Boys' crafts included woodworks and metalworks, while girls learned cooking and se

• thriftwy 9y ago
  But we never got to do anything. Wr had a room of wood- and metalworking appliances that got turned on maybe once per months. Laziness + risk aversion = paperwork instead of handiwork. We goofed around mostly. Was absolute waste of a good idea.
• rdtsc 9y ago
  Those were pretty good classes, I enjoyed them. Learned to use a coping saw, some wood and metal working. We had a lathe there and all. Some of that I had learned from my dad, but we just didn't have a lathe or those other tools and materials at home. Our classes also included doing demolition. The school was being remodeled so they gave us hammers and pick axes and told us to go wild on a few walls. Totally unhealthy and risky. But it was an exciting activity for a bunch of 14 year olds. Another time the teacher told to "go and get these bricks from that construction site, so and so will let you in". Looking back I am pretty sure, he was sending us to steal after he cut a deal with the guard. Oh and also other class was told to cut some trees. Those trees were not on the school property. Then teacher came drunk to class a few times. Good times, good times...
• cafard 9y ago
  At my junior high school outside of Cleveland, Ohio, the boys had wood shop in 7th grade and metal shop in 8th grade. Girls took "home economics", cooking and perhaps sewing. This was in 1967 through 1969. I don't know what the schools there teach now.