Just wondering if anybody around knows about Home Ec in school these days. Seems like it was mandatory for me in about 7th grade when we made a stuffed frog. (I can't forget the time my kitchen cooked everything for the tacos - the lettuce, tomatoes, cheese. No matter how hard I tried to convince them otherwise!)
Do they make it mandatory at any grade? For guys too or do they still have to take shop? When I took it in high school, we had a fashion show at the end of the year. Do they still do that? Tell me what it's like these days - because I'm nosy. LOL
About 20 years ago, in Nebraska, the boy who cut my grass was very proud of having taken Home Ec. He knew how to fix the grass-catching bag himself, and of course knew how to make food for himself.
My kids are still in elementary school, so I don't know how much Home Ec is available.
My kids are too young too, but I don't think that they have home ec in our catholic school. I went to pubic school and I had home ec. We made a drawstring bag or pillow case. I remember the cooking part also, that was actually some of the first cooking I did (prob 7th grade, maybe 6th). We made this great cinnamon roll thing with frozen pizza dough that I've made plenty of times since then ha ha :).
Home ec is an elective beginning in 7th grade here (only they call it Family and Consumer Science now). The intro clas is nine weeks of sewing and nine weeks off cooking. My DD is taking the sewing portion now and learning the parts of a sewing machine. I think they make a pillowcase.
Back when I was in junior high (very early 1970s), home ec was only girls and shop was only boys. Both have been coed since about 1973, though.
