Wood shop (10) Metal shop (11) and Electrical shop (12) were the most useful courses I took in high school. The girls had to take Home Economics for three years, some of them actually learned to cook.
All 3 required.
The shop in my high school has been turned into an SAT prep center.
I did OK on the SAT and the MCAT without prep, and I’ve been a doctor for 45 years.
The three shop classes are still very useful. Wish they had plumbing shop, too. My joints still leak, and those guys make more than I do.
Despite being a millennial, I was fortunate enough to have a shop class (wood/metal shop hybrid). I heard they got rid of it shortly after I graduated because only boys took the class and apparently that’s sexist even when there are no sex-based restrictions on enrollment.
I did OK on the SAT and the MCAT without prep, and I’ve been a doctor for 45 years.
Goodness, you did OK. My dad let me do anything, cut the grass, repair the mower and his car, etc. I did OK in engineering school and had a great career. Earned some patents.
Wood shop (10) Metal shop (11) and Electrical shop (12) were the most useful courses I took in high school. The girls had to take Home Economics for three years, some of them actually learned to cook.
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Took the same three courses. Absolute rubbish and waste of time at a school in NE Illinois back in the very early 1980s. Most college-track students also did very poorly in them.
It was where all the cigarette-smoking punks, jocks and burnouts went and spent most of their time.
Think that’s why abhor these fields. Used to get the crap beat out of me by these classmates on a regular basis. So I associate those jobs with these type of scumbags.
Plumbing shop is a great idea. My dad taught me auto mechanics which have been quite useful. I had to learn plumbing by myself with no Youtube. The major lesson in plumbing is that if it leaks just a little, that’s not good enough!