Late ‘70s thru ‘80s I had “home economics” (cooking, sewing, etc) and “shop” (welding, woodwork, metal work, ceramics, etc). I’m baffled how public schools manage to do so little in the same time allocated decades before.
I should have been so lucky. I left my northern Michigan school for Detroit in my Junior and Senior years of high school. Had I stayed up north, I would have taken home economics that was taught by my aunt..........To this day, I can't cook and my aunt is unavailable for help since she died a number of years ago.