Was Home Economics In the 1950s really this weird?
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Girl, I had this class in the late 90s, and it was so valuable. They need to bring this back and make it REQUIRED.
Just without the "loaned babies" thing. There's no reason they can't learn to change diapers on a doll.
In the early 2000’s my high school made in mandatory in Gr.9 for the boys as well!
@@AgentClaytonWebb I never had any of these classes. Yet I somehow managed to learn all these stuff myself. Except possibly manners. 😂
@@danielch6662 Hey man, it was mandatory, I already knew the stuff myself including manners… but I don’t always use them 😏 lol
@danielch6662 You know what else you can just learn yourself? Literally every school subject beyond reading.
The issue is most people will refuse to learn elementary skills unless forced to do so at a young age, hence why schooling is compulsory.
I was one of these girls that took 4 years of Home Economics. I learned to upholster, cook, sew, and so much more. I’m 75 now and I have used 100% of what I learned in those classes in the 60’s. These classes need to be offered again in schools, along with Shop, and Mechanics!
I couldn't agree with you more!❤
True for other country too
I learnt a lot of the cooking and clothes stuff in secondary school home economics
I did these classes in the 70's.
I still love to cook. Why did they ever take these important lessons out of schools 🤦♀️
I only wish I had learned the same things in school! There is NOTHING weird about anything in this video! Not even bringing those sweet babies in to demonstrate to teenagers how to care for them properly
I would love these classes back, plus learning how to change a tire, fix the plumbing in the bathroom, and keep a veggie garden.
This term I've got self-sufficient 101 after lunch.
Honest though, these are skills a lot of parents don't have the time to teach their kids anymore while working 3 jobs and schools should pick up the slack.
🙌🙌 YES!!!
The one we’re for the men and the other one we’re for the women back in those days. My mom had classes like these and even as she got older and studied art and things like sawing she was one of the few girls in school
@JustMe-vs1kj interestingly my mom had to take both. In the 70s at her school everyone had to take home ec. And shop
It is called the internet 🙄
They need to bring this curriculum back and make it mandatory, and add car maintenance, as well as basic home repair.
And file taxes. And manage your credit history. And the car & home purchase process.
Absolutely! These r life skills that not every parent is equipped to teach their children. If we had this more children would grow up ready and able to help equip their own children for life as well.
I mean, the babysitting and car repair stuff are things not everyone will need. Some people don't want kids or aren't able to get a car (either due to money or due to disabilities). So it's unfair to make that part of the mandatory curriculum.
But basics such as cooking, how to keep your kitchen clean, how to repair your clothes, personal hygiene, finances (like how to file your taxes or how to budget for your everyday needs), keeping your house clean, doing laundry and first aid? Those are things everyone should know when living on their own, so they're important to be taught those
@@smartmarketing173or you can learn taxes, and major purchases the same way most young adults did it. You go do it, and learn as you go through the process.
Schools didn't teach us how to do our taxes, buy a car, or a house. We went out and learned. Then if you needed help you went and asked your parents for advice , or another person who had some experience.
@sarahwieland3243 not every parent is able to teach it to their children because a lot of parents today haven't learned those things themselves, they are just winging it.
I'm an 63 year old man, and we had these classes in our school. One year, the guys had a chance to take this course. I signed up for it, and I learned a lot of skills that I still use today.
In my high school I couldn't join the home economics class. But I didn't care because I was already learning this since I was ten years old. Because my 7 step sisters we mentally ill.😮
Same here
My dad graduated in 1956, and he took home economics his sophomore year. He referenced things he learned quite often. Basic sewing helped him a lot when he was in the Army, and he needed to fix a popped button. He learned several very delicious recipes for entrees. Growing up, my siblings and I loved his potato soup. He made incredible cinnamon rolls, usually every few months. At Christmas, he made close to 10 pounds of rock candy to share with family and friends, again, a skill learned in home ec. He could properly wash the dishes, clothes, and babies. lol
My mom had back problems and was usually admitted to the hospital a few times a year. Back then, I think they believed being put in traction was the cure all for any back ailments. Anyhow, dad kept us fed, clean, and happy during her "vacations," thanks to many skills learned in that class. 😊
@debbieomi my Mom, was handicapped since I was a year old.... when Dad left us, I was doing all this stuff when I was 8 years old anyway, had no choice.... had to help Mom. But, taking the course when I was older really helped out.😊 My Mom was the best one anyone could ever have ❤️
@@waynetregear858 mentally ill or just refused to follow the stiffeling patriarchal expectations?
I learned this at school but also woodwork, metalworks and pottery. Both boys and girls had to do it. The very first thing I learned was how to put a plug on an appliance. The panic I was feeling when I switched it on, I can still remember, and I can remember how proud I was with myself when it worked. These classes need to be brought back.
Same here, it was great, kids these days have no clue
Ahhh yeah I would've loved to learn this stuff
Actually, many schools have 'Life Skill classes'.
We weren’t required to take these classes when I was in school, but they were offered.
I’m rather useful when it comes to jury rigging things using crafting supplies or random objects because I took almost every art class my high school offered, but the art program had a minuscule budget, so when things broke, I would join in helping to fix them with whatever we had available.
I learned soldering from my art classes and that’s definitely been useful many times.
Bring this back please 🙏
I finished high school 5 years ago and still had a version of this. We had a large class, with space in front as a normal classroom where we would discuss this, and about 20 mini kitchen set-ups with stoves, ovens, working tables and sinks. There, we cooked a specific course once a week. Never learned sewing but it was an extremely valuable class
I also had the required classes. Remember nothing but they aren't gone
In the late 90s we had basically the same class. They called it something else, there were boys in there with us too.
I had already learned how to cook, clean, and sew from my mom and grandmother, but it was still a fun class.
I think kids need to learn these things now more than ever.
A gardening class to teach kids how to grow their own food would be extremely beneficial too. Knowing where our food comes from and being able to grow something from a seed changes the way we see many aspects of life.
Where does this idea come from that kids don't know where their food comes from? Most kids will be able to tell you that it comes from farms and that's almost certainly going to be the case
FCS. Family Consumer Science
I graduated high school in the 70s. Both young women and men took these courses. I learned so much about practical things. Grateful for those courses.
Yep! When I was a boy I took some "Home Ec" classes in school. Loved it. Stupid AF that this wouldn't still be the case.
I took Home Ec all 4 yrs of HS, and loved it! We didn't have the baby factor though. I got that experience baby sitting while making a little $$$😅
Didn't you have any PARENTS!
They slowly got faded out in the early 80s. Few things I was not taught wish I had been.
@DEAD-FROM-NY there's certainly some things in there not all parents would know, or be good at teaching, or have the time/resources to teach. There's a reason we have teachers in the first place. Let's not forget not all kids have both parents, or any parents, or parents who have the same interests.
This class is still needed! You have no clue how many young adults this would help
you want them to learn this before pronouns?
@@rohitnijhawan5281you want them to learn this before reading?
Why is something you know like parents should do why should a school do something parents should be doing
Traditionally this was taught as an elective class to highschoolers. Parents are supposed to be doing it yes, but how many are actually taking the time to do so?
It is still taught
In England, we have a subject called tech where they teach general hand/craft things to all students. It's split into different classes (woodwork, cooking, sewing, etc) and you would have a few months learning each class and then switch so you got to experience all of them throughout the year
My son is Mad about the fact he would appreciate these kinds of classes, also the woodshop and many others.
As someone who is still in high school, I would greatly appreciate it if they brought all of this back.
Where do you live that this isn't taught, especially the cookery side? I left school just over a decade ago and learnt most of this in the UK right the way through school.
Same like I know little to no life skills while being almost 18
They have the courses still in school they’re just separated. Only thing I don’t think they teach is sewing.
@@hannahk1306I currently live in the states and neither this course nor any sort of equivalent is taught at any of the highschools I’ve encountered.
They teach zero life skills in schools in the US. They think that math for critical thinking skills, history so we don’t repeat it - as if that ever happens…which is does, science for whatever reason, and language arts so we know how to read and write and if anything…language arts is the most valuable class. Everything else…? The hell with that, they didn’t even teach cursive when I was in school and any that I know I taught myself just by looking it up.
These are important skills. This class should definitely be brought back.
What classes should be cut to make room for home economics?
@@jbownik All of them
It’s still here. My daughter is in Home Economics now. It’s a required elective and I have to pay for it.
@@jbownik How do you think they made room for them back then??? We went to school from 8 to 3, and had extra-curricular activities after or before school. Kids did not have a lot of free time to get into trouble.
@@essenceofauset7272 A "required elective"?? How does that work???
I loved taking those classes! They were so beneficial for me, especially the ones I took in high school. I took home economics in 7th grade (late 80’s) but I already knew how to hand sew (since age 7) and read recipes and bake (since age 9). I took machine sewing in 10th grade and learned how to sew French seams, hems, button holes, and zippers. I took child development in 11 grade and learned all about male and female anatomy, reproductive health, and child development from conception to adulthood. They were all such great classes.
I remember in my elementary home economics class, we had most of these. I quite literally remembered sawing a wooden plank when I was 11- I was the skinniest kid but I sawed it off real smooth and my teacher complimented me for it lmao Core memory right there- We also learned to cook, proper hygiene, cross stitching, sewing, and basic carpentry. I was 11 at that time, I'm turning 16 now- It was a required class and was honestly really fun.
These classes need to be brought back. Too many people don't know the basics of taking care of themselves.
They are a thing (at least in NC)
Agreed. My school didn't have home economics, but my parents and grandparents didn't teach me those skills either. Instead, I was punished for not doing things correctly.
So now I'm an adult with my own apartment and I have absolutely no idea what the hell I'm doing.
Doesn't fit the agenda of elites. If you know how to cook you won't eat out as much. If you know how to mend clothes you won't buy them as much. If you have a spouse that clips coupons and saves you money on daycare/babysitters you might earn enough money to start your own business, strike or vote for politicians that defend workers rights.
They REALLY need to bring this stuff back.
I know a LOT of folks who couldve used this info. Seriously.
But then people wouldn't be reliant on the government. I mean that's why they took it out
@@theoddgamerfamily8619which of these skills exactly makes one not reliant on the government?
They prefer mass deliberate helplessness. It makes it much easier to control them.
This stuff is still in schools (at least in NC) they’re just not required classes so not everyone takes them, (except the Babysitting one)
@@tracycaldwell1736if the government is trying to control us, its doing a terrible job 😂 you know who really has power in this country? All the billionaires and their companies.
I had classes like these is 8th grade. Super useful and honestly they should be required today.
I took this class in my senior year of high school back in 2016, we didn’t have babies though. That was one of the very few classes that had a huge effect on my life and is still relevant to me now. At 19 I became a wife and then a stay at home mother 10 months after I got married. I now have 3 children and still a stay at home mother. I’ve saved my family so much money by staying home, sewing and mending things that were broken, I cook 2-3 meals from scratch everyday and I keep a clean home. Hands down one of the best classes that anyone could ever take!
Please, we need these classes back
I had them fifteen years ago what the hell happened? I remember home ec, some sort of basic cooking class, sewing. Couldn’t have just been my school district offering these classes in junior high/high school.
Yes 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇿🇦
I graduated high school in 2007 and took a home economics course in middle school. It was an elective. They likely still have these classes. We learned all this stuff. Using a sewing machine and cooking
For both sexes, of course ✌🏼
@justinm1200 I graduated in 2017, they didn't have this class in my school at least. Instead we had nutrition class, where the teacher gave us test answers 🤠 I cant think of a class where teachers didn't give us test answers tbh
I don’t see nothing WRONG with these classes. It would be essential to offer these classes once again and keep them.❤️❤️❤️
Yes & for everyone not just women.
Had a similar course in middle school.
Along with this, a personal finance course would be highly useful
other then the real baby thing, that was creepy.
The only problem was the yonly gave them to women! They really should bring em back and make em required courses for EVERYONE!!!
So that's why nobody can do anything anymore
Just teach all of it to the boys too this time around. Would be a real benefit for society if every child knew the basics.
We had this in the 90s as well. Needs to be brought back asap!
I had home ec at my old school in Australia, it was great! (although it was focused more on food and similar things, not sewing or laundry)
I'm a guy and I took home economics in the 1980s so that I could be self-sufficient and knew how to take care of a baby for when I became a father...I also learned to type and sew. I took shop classes as well learning woodworking, basic vehicle repair and first aid...All that stuff served me well when I joined the military...You'd be surprised how useful all that knowledge is in the field....do schools even teach those things anymore these days?
nope! it's way too expensive for schools to teach it
2 of my kids took home economics and were very disappointed. They have the the facilities at the school but the class is 40 minutes. My son said he learned how to wash dishes and make microwave hot cocoa 😔 my daughter learned to see a pillow. They were supposed to learn all kinds of things but it never happened
They didn't have it at my school. The closest things were culinary or medical but obviously that wouldn't cover everything
Not where I live. It's all just Math, Science, History, and ELA. I have seen the high school I'm going to and no signs of that. (I'm going to high school next year)
No, I learned how to cook from CZcams and if you've been on the food section here, you'd know that not everything is edible or even safe to eat. The only electric thing I can do is replace an old fashioned lightbulb. I don't know how to sew, although I bought an old sewing machine so there is still some hope if I can piece it all together, because it is in parts. I don't know anything practical.
I want this brought back, as all of these are VERY USEFUL. One change tho: make ALL students take it, not just the girls
Yes, it could also work as the best birth control. Babies are not easy some hands on work could help these kids.
By the late 80s everyone had to take it in my school district. I think that started in the 70s. Just the sewing and cooking, though. It’s obviously been a hot minute since then, but I think it was a trimester class. One tri was art, one was industrial tech, one was home ec. Must have been 7th or 8th grade.
@@yamairad1I mean.... orphanes don't really exist anymore and I doubt having a bunch of 13-year-olds just get random babies be like possible today with safety standards and all.
@@dutchik5107 What are you talking about? Of course there is still teen pregnancy and orphans. Like what?
@@dutchik5107 You can't really be that stupid to say orphans don't exist anymore can you? Baffling honestly.
There are roughly 800,000 orphans in the United States, you could do a really simple Google search and see that the rate of orphans in this country has increased
I wish we had these types of classes it’s so much more valuable then ex:Music,Art,history classes this is every day use it’s crazy how it isn’t in schools anymore.
We did both which was great.
They are in schools still just under different names
How did this get taken away?! Bring back wholesomeness.
I'm a 38 yr old male. I took this class, Mrs Holdsworth was an amazing teacher who taught me the fundamentals of cooking. I now cook amazing meals for my family. A worth while class that should be mandatory
For me it's not that this isn't useful. But...why doesn't your parents teach you this?? Many of those things...it's considered a basic parenting thing to give that knowledge along, like laundry. In my country...if they didn't teach you things at home...you are considered a neglected child. Cos the kids that wouldn't learn this at home...where the ones that wouldn't have clean clothes etc, cos no one at home would actually do laundry....
@@lisastenzel5713 Depends on the parents, nowadays it is very useful for lots of people there are a lot of parents that don't take care of their children personally they leave it up to someone else they trust, sometimes they don't teach u that, u may be taught how to wash ur clothes, clean, etc. but some things aren't taught by ur parents/the one who takes care of u or u teach urself the basics
This is the only class I took as a teenager that I still use today. This needs to come back
I attended these classes. I was grateful bc I didn't have a mother who had natural maternal inclinations. I had no aunts, cousins, etc., so these classes assured me of developing the skills my mother did not groom in me🤗
Because it's more practical yes they should teach math and stuff but they should also teach this
My favorite class,,sewing today,I loved the cookbook.
So you didn’t learn fractions in math, or how to read in Reading? How are you supposed to read the recipe and know what amounts to use if you didn’t learn anything else? 🤦🏾♀️
Home Economics & Shop classes were more expensive for schools to teach than most other classes, because they required equipment & also presented extra liability because of accidents. School systems would claim these classes were sexist, instead of admitting, that they were just trying to save money, to justify getting rid of them.
They were actually very important classes, because they taught practical skills, that people could use throughout their lives. Nowadays, young people don't even know how to hammer a nail to hang a picture, & have to call Doordash to eat at home.
70’s Home Economics was the BEST! First sewing project was a stuffed mouse. I recreated this project, recently, with my 6 and 7 year old grandsons. We stitched our mice by hand. Came out great! Now they have their own sewing machines.
I know people that REALLY NEED this class TODAY
They need to bring these classes back!
You can learn all this thing at home like myself. The people that want back classes for thise things just want to waste more tax money.
@@Ignacio-hv5yl Better than CRT classes.
It would really benefit young people.
@@Ignacio-hv5yl learning to balance a checkbook and cook and sew is a valuable life skill to teach. You are not an American and incredibly ignorant person.
The GOP has spent decades defunding public education since they don't believe it should exist. Things like this can't be paid for by public money in their world.
My 90's high school home ec classroom had 4 little kitchens. We learned how to cook from scratch, food safety, and how to properly clean up after. I took a class from the same teacher called Singles only survival. We had to look for an apartment, set up a fictional checking account, pay utilities, proper budgeting. We even took a trip to a local grocery store to learn how to shop and budget for meals. The teacher taught us about the price per ounce on the price tag to properly compare different sizes for the best deal. I still have my old recipe folder and use some recipes from home ec to this day. Love you Mrs. Fetterman!
Yep mine too. But I learned how to cook mostly from home. Other subjects in home economics such as budgets, checkbooks and balancing, sewing, and other life skills helped me a lot!
Mine also. We learned to cook, bake, sew in the late 90s
Yeah but i already knew how to cook by then from being in scouting from a young age, my first dish was a risotto and was banging.😂
Still had it at school in the 90s, now they have health and social care as a choice in some schools but that's the UK.
In my country, it was home economics for girls and woodworking for the boys.
Bring it all back
I love this ❤
We had this in high school in the late 70’s early eighties. They also taught you how to keep a grocery list, how to budget and how to shop for your meals. It was a very popular class. And it was made even more popular because it was the ONLY air conditioned class room on campus. Yes I went to school in the Deep South without air conditioning in the 70’s-80’s. Times have changed!
And we had a class that taught us how to balance a checkbook, buy and sell stocks and start a business.
Home economics and General business should be taught in schools today.
This was an important class for everyone. My kids also wished this. It was surprising what they didn't know and what I didn't think to teach them. It blew my mind when my daughter had to ask the bank how to write a check and I didn't think about it. It open my eye on how important this class was. BRING IT BACK!!!!
I want these classes back. People nowadays literally have to self-teach all of that and then be judged for not doing as good as the past generations
Like they wouldn't raise hell and call it misogynistic.
@@stephenwalker6939
It would be if only women had to learn it. Men need to know this stuff too.
Not sure how far I've gotten here, but there are many creators here on CZcams showing folks how to do all sorts of things! 😊 Have a great day and a blessed new year 🎉
It is called having bad parents. Lots of trappings in the modern World, "education" being one. Education is the job of the parents. Women in the workforce has eradicated many traditional feminine skills
@@brkdncrgrl Learning from YT is considered being self-taught. Due to the lack of hands-on interaction and immediate feedback, it can oftentimes result in things being done inefficiently. Having an in-person class in school is way more helpful for those who learn better that way.
This needs to be brought back, when I graduated high school I knew how to look for work, an apartment. I knew where to go and open a checking account, turn on my utilities. I was taught how to cook from scratch, and how to manage my life, I applied almost everything I learned from this course to my everyday life. This was the most important lesson I ever learned in school.
I graduated a year and a half ago. We had a home ec room and this was taught? It was a public school.
I managed to do all these things without been taught them at school (apart from cooking, which I wasn't really taught in class because I already cooked/helped cooking at home). But I see how learning about all these practical things before you do them in real life makes one more confident.
That's how I learned how to change a tire and jump a car battery. My husband learned how to sew, cook and type. Useful stuff everyone needs to know. That's back when boys were boys and girls were girls. The good old days. 😂
Yep, im going to be that guy. There is a political party/ideology that seems to be more interested in severely under paying teachers, setting unrealistic goals using a testing matrix that isn't interested in these skills...and they seem to do some double speak with their "family values" in the meantime.
@@markstewart4501 did you really have to go there 😂😂 sometimes it's nice to just remember way back when
Nobody signed up. The classes were empty. This was my FAVORITE CLASS. I made shirts from scratch and food. I use all this knowledge DAILY.
I had home economics throughout junior high school in the early 2010's. I loved that class. They taught a ton of useful stuff.
Not only did we learn how to cook and sew we went to the grocery store and learned how to coupon and budget. In addition to that we had auto shop and woodworking where you learned how to change a tire, basic car maintenance and how to do small home repairs. We also had 8 years of learning about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
For a while, you couldn't graduate Middle School without passing a test on the Constitution.
Dictionaries were removed, followed by needed classes such as these. It wasn't obvious why then, but the reasons become more obvious by the year.
ALL these things are extremely important for Middle School and High School graduates to know BEFORE they leave High School.. Kids now a days don't know any of this bcuz they just speak to Alexa or Google!!.. God help them if the internet ever goes down!!.. ✌️❤️😎🙄🙏🇺🇲
But now we have safe spaces, so you can be completely helpless, but also feel like your feelings matter more than the three Rs
@@ToniM10which is why our enemies work toward being EMP capable.
I’m only 26 and took this class in middle school in the late 2000s. I wish they would bring it back. It’s always valuable information.
I’m a decade older and took a similar course.
Same, NY state
I think they still teach them. They definitely still taught them in my home district when I was in high school. It's just they're electives and not required, mostly.
Same here...early 2000s
Survival skills
When i was in school in the USSR, we had home economics classes. It was one of my favorite classes of the week.
This class was in my highschool in the 2010s, but spaces were limited and each time I had the chance to take it I missed out. Fortunately I've learned most of this anyway, but this class is SO needed. There are people who don't get taught this at home or don't get taught correctly. Especially food sanitation!
Home Economics and typing were the two best classes ever. Lots of practical stuff a person needed.
I had a young man comment on me typing and not looking at the keys. How do you do that! My response was typing class in 1976. We couldn’t look at the keys or we would get docked points. So yes typing is still so important even more so today.
@@janettedecent1197 I learned, in the 60's, on an old Underwood. Errors required erasure (before white out or white out tape), so you worked hard to not make errors. But speed was very important. In the 70's I typed 125 wpm (no errors) in a 5 minute speed test. And yes, NO peeking at the keys.
@@user-ol3bd6ef1fThat would be exceptional typing. I knew someone like this once, and she was a meditation teacher.
This is one of the most practical and useful classes. Bring it back!!
I had this class in the early 80s. It was invaluable. Lord knows, they need to teach these things again.
My mom studied home economics in university and it shows in the way she runs the home. I wish I could have done a subject like this as well. Its awesome.
Bring it back!!! As a high school teacher, I can tell you, a lot of kids don't know the basics (especially manners)!
As a highschool teacher, you need to meet your coworkers or get to know them better😂. Every single public school system in the US offers FCS courses
They need to bring these classes back. This is where i learned how to use a sewing machine and basic cooking skills.
s a m e❤
I took these in school too. Crazy thing was, the teacher really didn’t seem to know how to do this stuff.
No, you tube is way better. I went to these classes and at best they taught you how to make a pillow, cook a easy meal like spegettii and handle a baby... badly. I learned way more about all of this from actual parents, parents of friends and their baby siblings.
Checkbooks were ridiculous and I am glad we are free of them.
What we need to teach is media literacy and critical thinking classes.
💯 bring those classes
My friends private school still does this
Had Home Economics in middle school and 1 class in high school. Very helpful and taught real life skills needed by all.
I had this class in the early 80's. I loved this class, can't believe they did away with it.
This should be a MANDATORY class
It used to be!
No, it shouldn't be. Gender identity is far more important than any of that unless real life stuff.
@@boneshaman8912 That’s something that should be covered in human health class and it wouldn’t take any more than a couple of lessons :) I think home economics deserves it’s own spot because it’s kind of a unique but also an important thing to talk about
@@hazelquartI think they were being sarcastic I could be wrong though
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Had this class in the 80s. In addition to the cooking, etc. the teacher also devoted some sessions to teaching us how to read and understand the stock ticker section in the newspaper. Home economics included financial education also.
i would think school actually did stuff for children if it was like that still but when i took it in 2001 it was extremely mild and now its outta schools.
OH! YES! Finances 101 for kids... I remember reading a book about it from my older sister, we went to different schools and hers valued trade jobs before college - mine was military.
In 1987, Economics (stock tickets etc) was its own class, and Home Economics was an elective you took for an Easy A😂. I'm glad I took it - that's where I learned to make pesto properly (and all kinds of pasta to go with it). There was no baby 😂.....just an eggshell.....and the only reason MINE had "diapers" is because I was trying to hide that it got squished 😂 (I'm a problem solver).
I took this class back in the 1960s. Don’t forget the mirror class that boy’s took which taught them basic building skills and home repairs, use of power tools, safety, car maintenance, etc. It was called Shop Class.
Even some people from the audience were openly grinning when Mr. Chenshaw was repeating " the standards of care."
I took these classes and I am grateful for them.
I remember...these classes were priceless! They are direly needed TODAY!!!!!!
Too much money to be made from people being dependent on goverment and corporations
Its too bad parents dont teach this logic!
Same can be said for the trades and the industrial arts.
@@sherkelly4533 that's what happens when people who shouldn't have kids...do. Vicious cycle. Can't pass down information you were never taught/didn't have access to.
@@sherkelly4533 Speak for yourself, right.
-Both parents are working over time. -Food stamps with a FULL time job is a VERY REAL thing.
-FOOD STAMPS? How are they paying medical? psssst, they aren't.
You ah, check into reality, or are you just to busy 'sayin' the poor are lazy and stuff like that.
Yes, there are also "bad parents", but you sound so out of touch Im sure your definition is so looney yuppie that you have no idea.
Literally had this class in 2009. It’s practical and super valuable for those whose parents don’t teach their kids any kind of home skills. It was awesome watching my peers find that they’re actually talented in the kitchen and at making garments!
Was this in a public school? Or in a private school? I ask because I was in a private school through the 70s and 80s and none of this was offered. I would also have liked for my school to have offered shop class.
I had this class in the 2000s as well it was fun cuz we got to eat what we made, it was a public school
@@pastelgoth6451 Finally! A public school teaching kids something useful!
@@karynbanksley7110 yes a public school! 😁 it was also mandatory to take shop and agriculture classes. Loved those classes. We learned a lot of basics that humans should know about building and following directions/instructions and growing our own food. And we had a little garden and bat houses.
I had this last year. It was by far one of my favorite classes that year
I want these classes back for every single student. Every single kid in school needs to go through this.
Frankly, we still had these in India in the 90s and they were really helpful
Our class also covered budgeting, furniture refinishing and child development.
We had a separate woodworking class for that, we also had a tech class for drafting and learning to solder, and a metallurgy class even in middle school, but that one was elective. They made jewellery.
I'm 38 and I took home economics all 4 years. I learned all of this. There were guys in the class as well. I think this course should be mandatory in high schools. Many teens would benefit and not be as lost as they are in our society in 2023. Bring back the traditional courses that taught children, pre-teens, and teens how to become functional members of society as adults.
Same
In my school it was and still is mandatory. I'm 30 for context. My niece and nephew went to the same highschool and only graduated in the past few years and also had to do it.
Cooking, sewing, economics and child care were elective classes at my high school and I graduated in 09. I took the cooking class first thing in the morning so not only did I learn more cooking skills, I was also fed at the end of it 😊
I was in school during the 2000's and we had a home ec room with stove and fridge and sink set ups. We would learn to cook, sew and knit. We would even have cooking competitions in class, it was honestly fun as hell and very valuable.
Yes! You also learned meal planning, and the economics around that. Bring it back!
yeah! for everyone, everyone needs this
We learned in middle school, so by the time we graduated, a lot of us forgot anything.
YES FOR EVERYONE IS VERRY USEFUL
Your schools didn’t have this??
We had home economics in middle school (early 2000’s), and high school (mid 2000’s) had foods (cooking), and a mandatory Career And Life Management or CALM. Where you learn about different jobs and what you need to study for the career, budgeting, including field trips to the grocery store to see real prices, sex ed, babies, writing a cheque, etc
Yup! My Senior year, my PE teacher wanted to do this for us. But because there's a company that rented our school cafeteria, therefore we the students of the school banned from it. AND too many idiots in our class like 1/4 of my class. But at least she did go over nutrition, how to read labels for appliances, and make sure that they are tested by the United Laboratory (UL), and CPR and the heimlich maneuver. I graduated after 2010😅
They should bring these classes back. I think children would learn a lot!
You should teach your own children like my parents taught me
Considering most ppl nowadays will not cook, saw or have a baby or even do any of these activities (except first aids which can happen, but a small course is enough and as for personal hygiene do you rly need clases to learn how to shower?) ,It just does not make sense to have it anymore...
Times have changed...
@@Candyy248You know you do not need a kid to have to cook or sew stuff right?
@@ericrivera8410in my country, those are taught in elementary. Part of the curriculum
Until the 80s it was all girls in the Home Ec classes. The school system was basically trying to send them the massage that they shouldn’t aspire to anything more than to be a housewife.
I was in home economics in the late 70’s, Our class had boys and girls, classroom had four kitchens and we were divided in groups. Our school seniors would have a mock wedding, the whole works.
These are basics of life which is very essential even today...
I took one of the last "life skills" classes in 1998. No cooking, no sewing. All it taught us is how to write a check, balance a checkbook, and make a resume. We need to bring back classes that teach ALL of these things.
You took life skills, you should have taken family consumer sciences, that course STILL exists today in every public school system.
@@HarringtonsApocy I don't even remember seeing that on the list of electives, but it's been so very long, though, that I wouldn't rely on my memory. 😂 Is it the same as home econ?
My daughter's graduating class begged to be taught how to balance a checkbook...
I lived in a rural area in the South. In middle school, 7th grade specifically ,(early 2000s) everyone had to take home economics. We learned how to cook and do a bit of sewing. Most kids loved it but it wasn't as exhaustive as this video shows and only lasted a single semester. I think it depends what part of the country you live in whether Home Ec is offered.
I learned about income taxes and checkbooks in 8th grade math course. I also had cooking and sewing in 7th grade home ec courses, but I don't remember any manners. I did receive a book on manners/etiquette. I also had typing.
Tons of people REALLY need to learn these things. Bring them back
Maybe. When they teach you how to avoid the financial fallout from government corruption and the effects it will have on your financial future.
Seeing this video had me confused because in my country we still do home economics😂 I did it in my primary school but it was an elective course in secondary school so I did something else but a lot of my classmates picked it. Home Ec. practicals were the best times because we got to eat the food students cooked, I always looked forward to it.
I was very fortunate to have these courses throughout my 6-12th grade years despite moving states between those years. I graduated in 2017 and having at least one course in Home Ec was required to do so. Although they’re getting rarer, these classes still exist and they’re great!
This has been useful my whole life. It reenforced what was taught in a practical setting. Fun too !
This whole series needs to be brought back into the school systems....starting in Middle School. They also taught budgeting, household management, etiquette, proper dressing, etc.
"But what use is all that when training economic units"
You're completely right.
Yep! Learned how to sew, balance a check book, and to cook. Home economics was one of my favorite classes!
I made an apron! 😎
We also had all these classes in home economics that was an elective plus how to interior design and even how to get married and care for a baby.
I didn’t know they got rid of it
Me too! I made my own jacket! I was a tough ass farm kid and a male! I loved that class!
I had this class in my public middle school in the 2010’s. It is def still around.
I’m only 29 but vividly remember taking home ec in middle school. The skills they taught us were very valuable. I’m surprised it’s no longer offered at most schools.
All these skills need to come back as MANDATORY for ALL STUDENTS, no matter their sex or gender identity. They need to start teaching these things sooner too. I had home ec my junior year of high school in 1998, and it was only one semester. It was co-ed, but that one semester is not nearly enough to learn all this stuff properly. We need to start in elementary school, not high school.
Yeah we have all of the things mentioned in the video at my school. We’re all taught that no matter sex and gender. Except for the orphan babies. We used baby dolls.
Thsi was recent too. 2020 to be precise
Yeah it is in a lot of countries, Aus still has it as a mandatory req of high school.
So many people fail to take care of children these days, let alone themselves, Home Economics needs to be Mandatory.
There's a reason they removed it, why not make young adult life more stressful by young people not knowing how to do things, then you can herd them easier like headless chicken desperate for some order
That's just my pissy hypothesis in the moment, because my generation has been learning too many things the hard way that they used to teach the previous generations. Financial literacy is a big one, might be one of the multiple reasons my generation is having trouble buying houses compared to previous generations
They all need to learn how to cook as well. When I was in school home ec. Was an elective and all they taught was how to cook. There are so many kids these days who would starve if they didn't have enough money to purchase premade meals.
I am a guy who took Home Economics and Industrial Arts both in the 1970's, so I firmly believe they are both useful, and necessary.
But you simply cannot mandate education without involving the Government. The Government in our schools is why all the worthwhile programs are no longer there in the first place. The government being in the education business is why kids are "graduating" without the ability to do basic math, spell, form coherent sentences or speak understandable English today. Thanks to the Government, children are being taught about non-binary sexuality, LGBTQ lifestyles, how to get spayed or neutered without your parents permission, that girls are second class citizens who do not deserve their own bathrooms, sports, locker rooms or to be free from sexual assault or rape in schools.
Essentially, the schools are too busy teaching that boys can give birth to babies, and that girls can kill one and call it 'healthcare', to waste any time teaching how to change or feed one.
As someone who is a senior in hs I would’ve greatly appreciated if my school had offered a class like that
I WISH I had these classes in school! The panic I feel when I have to cook a new recipe because I have no idea what I'm doing is embarrising😅🙈
They should bring that back
Yes but for both genders not just women. Everyone needs to learn how to meet their basic needs, culinarily and financially. I really wish there was a class like this in school, I wanted to be taught how to sew
@@garlicsaucespill9482that’s how it is in the uk, food technology is a compulsory class for all students
We have this in sweden :) for both men and females
@@ezrafriesner8370 in australia too, we have food tech, textiles and pastoral and health that covers almost all this stuff.
@ezrafriesner8370 but not long. About 1s a week for 3 months in only year 7 and 8
I'm a 30+ year old man and both my grandma's taught me all of these. Posture, poise and presentation in all things was stressed, cleanliness, cooking and catering to the needs of your household. It's important for everyone.
I'm 30 and fortunate enough to have both my grandmothers and grandfathers on each off my parent's side. My great grandmother passed two years ago. My brother and I grew up on a farm in South Africa with my grandparents for the majority of our young lives. We were tought a lot of the skills mentioned in the video. The one thing I'm most thankful for is that they tought us good manners!
I learned these things at home as a kid in the 70's. The only thing here I didn't was sewing. Cooking from watching mother and PBS cooking shows on Saturdays after Bandstand, Soul Train, and Wrestling programs. Manners I learned from my older siblings and parents. Catholic school are well, but there were no facilities there. I learned babysitting and diaper changing because I became an uncle at age 5. I'm 8-17 years younger than my older siblings. I couldn't believe that I was an uncle at 5. I always thought aunts and uncles were old people!😂😂
Sure would be wonderful if they brought these classes back❗️ So many girls & boys too that are not taught by their mothers.
But can you imagine the uproar of women today fight it‼️
My parents were useless. This was vital learning I needed
They really need to bring this back i had to learn everything from my dad growing up
Bring this back! As well as all the shop classes. Should be a requirement.
Both shop & home ec for both genders if student wanted.
I think everyone should k own.how to change a tap washer, hang a door or a roof gutter, change a lock....so many basic things that would help us save no ey looking after our houses.
I took woodworking and welding in the aughts. I didn't do home economics because I knew that kind of stuff already.
@@greenleavesofsummer9673 no it should be required for them all. This is basic stuff that a lot of people cannot do even as adults
Then vote blue....maga wants to destroy public schools....
Home economics classes like these should be mandatory in public schools, for girls and boys.
They were usually not mandatory, but electives.
Yes and throw in how to pay your taxes.
My brother had to spend a semester in the school's home ec. class. He learned to sew, which was a skill he needed for repairing his parachute. Everyone in that middle school had to take the class for a semester. In high school, there was the civic's class, regarding tax forms and voting registration.
1/2 year was mandatory. We also all had to take 1/2 year of woodworking/shop class. This was 6th grade in the '88-'89 school year.
High-school also offered many electives. Technical skills included. Not everyone was college bound.
Our High-school also required that every student had to know how to swim in order to graduate. You can test out of the swim lessons.
The outgoing Class of 2023 was still required pass that swim test if they wanted to graduate from public high-school.
The problem lies in the systematic defunding of public schools since the 80s. Classes like home economics, shop, art, band, etc require a lot of space and specialized equipment and often specialized skills to teach, operate, maintain, and repair. This means more money.
My school district had a robust system of skill-based courses, but it's in a state that prioritizes education and thus has some of the highest property taxes in the nation.
Used to have home economics back in elementary. I still keep the things I learned in sewing class. Very practical
They 100% need to bring this back!
80s teen here - took home economics and had so much fun! Learned valuable life skills and my teacher was the sweetest little older lady. They should still have this course in high school!
In Denmark we learn all of these things in school. We have sewing, wood working and cooking classes as a regular part of our curriculum.
I wonder if Europeans tire of boastful Danes, the way Americans get sick of Texans??
Interesting, I live in Canada, and in the 80s, from grade 7 to 9, we had cooking, laundry, advanced sewing, woodworking and basic electronics, for both boys and girls.
In highschool for males and females we had to computers (Basic, DOS and common office software as well as software for warehouses etc), typing, basic and advanced accounting (optional in grade 12), basic personal finances, career planning and interviews.
From grade 7 to 12 we had the options: music, jazz band, drama, arts, and graphic arts, journalism and how to make airplane wings and polymer applications, mechanics, machinery (factor work) wood working, and electronics.
And French classes from k to 12. At grade 12 you would be fluent in French spoken and written. And physical education and health (all grade age appropriate).
I have heard they have that most of our schools have eliminated these courses. Except for a 2nd language, computer science and technology, all the financial and job hunting skills. It is much more specific but less options.
I live in the US (North Texas, late 2010s). It was an elective, but we learned almost all of those skills besides changing baby diapers (CPR was prioritized in health)
I live in Indonesia, we had these classes back in the 80s. I learned to cook, sew, menu planning, balance and checking, etc.
Bro me too i learned all of that in high/ secondary school in the caribbean specifically Barbuda and am 19 this year
so many schools still have their home ec and shop class rooms intact, some of the most useful stuff I learned!
Took this class in middle school circa 2001. It was an elective. Learned to sew and cook and bake. Pretty fun because we got to eat and take home the useful things we sewed. There was exactly one boy in the class.
My mom died when I was 12. My dad put me to work in the home. By the time I was 15 I was preparing dinner and responsible for laundry and housekeeping. My buddies mocked me. When I married my bride was years behind me. She had never seen a male fold clothes before. Ever. I’m still a better cook. Don’t tell her I said that.
Should a teenager be really have to be responsible for all of that all the time? Sounds exhausting. Obviously you should do some cleaning and cooking for yourself at that age, but if you were doing ALL of it like a housewife at 15 then that is a lot.
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My grandma's both made their sons learn cooking and cleaning ! Laundry too! Wives get sick and children require care and healthy food ! All should know the basics and not all get married or have a cleaning lady 😂
There is a common misconception, that guys do not know how to take care of themselves.
Home ec should be mandatory for girls and boys. These classes should also teach, in depth, neutrician using basic ingredients and the evils of low fat diets, Standard North American Diet, and the food pyramid.
Actually something useful to learn. Bring this BACK!!! I would have loved these classes.
The only thing that should change about it is that it should be mandatory class for all students, not just the girls. Everyone needs to learn these skills regardless of their gender.
@mask938 if only men were taught this in that day and age, there'd be better taught ppl all around, and those in the future could benefit from it.
I did. Late 80's. Freaking fabulous!!!
Yes you would have I took home economics and it was my favorite class.
@@historyraven99 I did early 90s and yes it was freaking fabulous. LMAO
Had this class in the early 2000's. My Favourite class
Wow Real Learning. In 90's we had Stitching Embroidery classes in school
They need to bring this back. All kids need this class
This and civics
Both are really important and their absence is one of the major issues with society today
@@angrydragonslayerthankfully civics is mandatory at my school
@@youre764 i wish it was everywhere
That would go against the Logan's Run future they have planned for us.
Do you want to bring this back because you think teaching girls to be prostitutes and then using that money for postmates and fast fashion is not sustainable?
I'm 61 years old and the lessons I learned in "Home Economics" have been helpful my whole life. It also gave me my love for sewing. It should be brought back. I have 2 adult daughters who I had to teach these home skills.
I wish they still taught these things too! Very important life skills.
You had to teach your children these things? You mean like a parent is supposed to?
Yes! I’m almost 61… I made a corduroy jumpsuit… halter tops, etc. loved sewing too!
Yep. I learned some of these skills on my own, some through the school of hard knocks, some from my mother, and some through experience. We ought to keep this course to make the transition to adulthood less strenuous for teens/young adults. I know that, for me, it really felt like I tripped and tumbled to get where I'm at now because there were many gaps in my practical education. The idea that I one day may finally make enough money to own my own house/car and somehow must figure out all the corresponding, associated expenses myself fills me with dread. Even now, I barely understand how my health insurance through my job works.
Yeah like a parents suppossed to.. and how many children do you have? I also taught my daughters to be responsible adults who support themselves.. do you have any more "parenting " advice? @@jadadallas5891
I finished high school in 2019 in Scotland. We still have these
They have that also in the 90s and in some schools still today.