From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Paul Dormer  wrote:   
   >In article <10bmoip$1868a$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote:   
   >   
   >> when I was in secondary   
   >> school, girls took home economics their sophomore year, and boys took   
   >> shop   
   >   
   >At my school in the sixties, it was domestic science for girls, woodwork   
   >and metal work for boys, but in the sixth for, cookery and metal work was   
   >taught to both.   
      
   I got kicked out of woodshop for making obscene carvings and so I was not   
   permitted to take metalwork or small engine repair.  This was a terrible   
   thing.   
      
   I think shop and home ec classes should both be required for everyone   
   because they are skills that people just plain need in the modern world.   
   I have worked with so many engineering graduates who didn't know how   
   to pick the right size screwdriver for a screw just because nobody ever   
   told them it was important and why.   
      
   My third high school had an auto shop class, and when I asked about it   
   I was told that college track students weren't allowed to take that,   
   and that it was just for the most stupid kids.  Now, a few decades later,   
   my mechanic has retired and couldn't find anyone smart and skilled willing   
   to take over his business.   
   --scott   
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