"Autocorrect! Autocorrect!"
Posted on 12/15/2018 10:38:11 AM PST by bgill
“WTH happened to Home Economics, Wood Shop, Metal Shop and Auto Shop?”
I took metal shop and drafting. I wish I had taken typing instead.
the college macro and micro economics courses were a trip through Keynesian thought.
Best thing I ever did was purchase Sowell’s Basic Economics and Applied Economics books, they are readable and you come out of it a better and more educated person
Teach them how to pay taxes. Turn them into conservatives.
I showed my daughters how to change tires.
Then I bought them AAA.
You haven’t been around a high school in a while, have you?
But fill them with 4 years of globalism, political correctness, and hate.
I hear tell that they now combine drivers ed with typing. Kids these days can drive blind, but not text without looking at their phones.
Look, parents are not even expected to provide 2 meals a day for their children. It’s depressing. Parents are just supposed to screw around and make babies, the cities and states are to care for them, teach them, and feed them. Sum Ting Wong.
"Children should enjoy childhood as much as adults enjoy adultery." Better?
Me too. But for kids that might live in a household were both parents work, or a single parent, or in the city, they don’t have the lessons we had. We grew up in a different time.
These days, Teaching kids a bit a self reliance is a good thing, don’t you think?
Nope. I got my bachelor’s in home ec/human ecology. The subject disappeared from high schools not long after. The department is no longer at the university I attended. My niece did have a semester of personal finance two years ago in high school. Some of this depends on the school district. Same school recently reinstated FFA.
They do not have business classes in high school either. Used to be with skills taught in high school a person could get a good job. Driver’s ed is taken with private companies, at least here in my area.
A friend of our daughter lived with us a while. She was clueless about her old clunker. Can’t believe her daddy let her drive it without teaching her anything. Mr. b took the time to teach her to change a tire, check the fluids (and why), check the belts, etc.
I always made the kids’ friends I drove around (lazy parents) put gas in the car, pay for it (my $), bring back the correct change and receipt, and check the air pressure.
My middle school special ed students learned to cook and read recipes (paid for itself by selling holiday goodies and using unopened lunchroom foods that would otherwise be trashed like milk, juice, fruit), launder and mend their clothes, gardening, or off the wall things like knot tying and flint knapping. Every couple weeks we’d plan learning field trips (only expense was gas for the school van) such as shopping with real money, how to milk goats, how to use a compass, business/agriculture/museum tours with related hands on, etc. Sadly, a new director put a stop to all that.
Parents apparently think they don’t need to teach their kids anything these days. They can just count on the government to do it all for them.
What are the major subjects of his three degrees? Are they arts (BA) or sciences (BS)?
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Taught my own daughter how to change a tire, check her oil and some basic car maintenance, balance a checkbook, sew, basic stuff. This is not the schools business.
They get breakfast and lunch for “free” at school. Those who ride the bus get after school “free” snacks and “free” snacks if there’s a test that day so they will score higher (never heard of studying to get an A). In the summer, the school food truck drives around with “free” lunches for anyone 0 - 21. Heck, the school even provides “free” babysitting 7 am to 6 pm for kids of teen moms including “free” formula, meals, diapers and clothes. And we wonder why our taxes are so high and teens start off life believing everything should be given to them.
"Autocorrect! Autocorrect!"
At our high school in the late 70’s to early 80’s, everyone (boys and girls) had to take a “home economics” class - for example, cooking or sewing.
I also took the shop classes. (Maybe those shop classes were dropped because the factories were closing down?)
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