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When I was a kid, cooking was part of the "Home Economics" class, which also included budgeting, shopping, basic repairs (home, clothing, etc), and some other u

• Teknoman117 2y ago
  It's shocking how recently this all seems to have been removed. I'm in my early 30s and learned most of this in public school.
  • crooked-v 2y ago
    It's at least partly because, starting with NCLB in 2001, schools got defunded if students didn't do well on standardized tests. That resulted in curricula being redesigned around those standardized tests, and in an even more exaggerated way for obvious reasons in poor schools.
  • alistairSH 2y ago
    Late 40s here. Interestingly, I wasn’t allowed to take home ec - the school considered it beneath me. Latin was thrust upon me as my senior year elective. And I still can’t bake a souflee to save myself.
• millerm 2y ago
  I think about how great my home economics class was. I still think of my teacher decades later. All that she taught me (I took several of her classes). From grocery shopping trips, food inspection, food preparation & safety, sewing, how to inspect clothing for quality, basic home maintenance... like, so much stuff that has been more impactful in my life than any other thing. I'm sad to think that my teacher is probably no longer alive after all these years. She also encouraged the hell out of me to play the guitar, which I still do. Cheers to you, Marlene. I'm sorry for those days where I might have been a bit of a pain, but I was just a young one then.