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That's an awesome idea. I remember when I was a kid, we had Home Economics class. It was mostly cooking, however we were also taught how to balance a checkbook, and a few -minor- chemistry experiments involving making different cleaning liquids for different surfaces, and one class was devoted to taking a few pieces of laundry and washing them with a washboard in a bucket of water, to teach us how far we've come in modern conveniences.
But gearing classes like Home Ec to give some emphasis to childrearing would be amazing. And yeah, make it mandatory for maybe - two school years - 7th grade, and 10th grade. Since most high school drop-outs occur during 11th and 12th grade, catch'em right before they do. Like you said, you won't get them all, and it won't impact them all. But if we could prevent even SOME of what we have now - lighten the burden of CPS because more kids grow up understanding what it means to be a responsible adult - and by virtue of that - a responsible parent...then we could save the lives and the futures of millions of children in the process.
Absolutely. It should go without saying. Our Home Ec class was open to both, though most of the guys who did take it, only did it cause it was filled with teenage girls
We learned a bunch of stuff; how to operate a sewing machine and follow a Simplicity pattern to completion, how to balance a checkbook, some fundamental childcare (heating a bottle of formula and why did mom drip some of it on her wrist before feeding it to my baby brother, changing a diaper, mostly babysitting instructions), a few cooking classes - main course, vegetable side dish, and dessert, a few science experiments to create our own cleaning supplies, stuff like that.
My kids had home ec in middle school, just 6 weeks. It was called "Family and Consumer Science". Guys and girls both took it. Then there were some other HE classes, like "Food Fun" (cooking) that they could take as elective. They also had to take one "practical arts" course in HS. Both of my daughters took "Catering" from the FCS curriculum.
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