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Originally Posted by beyeas
These programs still exist, and have instead just adapted to not be separated by gender, and hence you don't take them for an entire year. For example, my junior high aged son is currently doing wood working this term, and will have a cooking class in the winter term. He has previous had a term of sewing, a term on computer coding, etc. It is basically a grab bag that varies by term so that they all get exposure to each during the junior high period.
I am glad that at this educational stage that they still do get some of this, as practical stuff like this could otherwise be lost. Obviously once you hit HS then things have to focus academically depending on interests, but in JHS it is great that all students learn things like how to cook, how to build things, how to do basically computer coding, etc.
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Myself and a few of my friends (all male) elected to take a term of home ec in JH. We had all gone through the metal shop, woodworking, electronics, etc and wanted something different, maybe learn a skill like cooking that we could carry into our bachelor years some day. Overall, other than “mock chop suey”
it was a good experience. That was decades ago, so not a new thing.
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