I had a year of French in high school....my very southern country accent didn't help. I learned and retained nothing. Now.....my typing, sewing, and home ec classes have served me well. I started a small business making and selling custom full front end fender covers for the home mechanic. Im doing quite well in my retirement sewing a fe…
I had a year of French in high school....my very southern country accent didn't help. I learned and retained nothing. Now.....my typing, sewing, and home ec classes have served me well. I started a small business making and selling custom full front end fender covers for the home mechanic. Im doing quite well in my retirement sewing a few days a week. I make more than i did teaching with 30 years with a Masters degree and work a hell of a lot less. Thank you sewing classes!
Funny, schools no longer offer typing, sewing and home economics anymore. But, they do teach racism, body mutilation, and pop a pill for an ill. How is that working for us?
My two older sisters had the same school experience. By the time I was old enough to learn them, the homemaking arts had been removed from the public school curriculum. This was in the mid-70s. I suspect the decision was fueled by the women's liberation movement. I MISSED OUT! My sisters patiently taught me those skills (the very basics), but to this day, I long to master needlecrafts to the degree that my sisters did because of their many hours of classroom instruction and hands-on learning.
We still had Home Ec in school. I was resistant and did not learn a thing. Even my mother gave up trying to teach me to sew on a button. Yet I began to want to sew clothes in high school, making all kinds of mistakes of course! When I had children, I would sew for them, because they didn't mind my mistakes. Years later, I learned pattern making and began to produce sewing patterns; Victoria Jones Collection . My pattern making teacher expected us to be accurate within 1/32" by hand. I loved it all and still do. The sewing book we used 40 years ago is still being reprinted today and to my mind, is still the best general sewing instruction book: The Readers Digest Complete Guide to Sewing. $21.50, and you can sew anything!
To this day I still use the cooking skills I learned in home ec, although they called it foods and nutrition by then. My mom, god rest her soul, taught me how to cook by using box mixes and cans, but that class taught me from scratch.
while my Mom was not a terrible cook, I became better. I remember the days of Good House keeping 'recipes', Combine one 8oz can of XYZ with a 12oz box of ZZZ......etc.
The classes from school that have done me the most good in life, were cooking classes. I have been able to prepare excellent healthy meals for myself and significant others.
I had a year of French in high school....my very southern country accent didn't help. I learned and retained nothing. Now.....my typing, sewing, and home ec classes have served me well. I started a small business making and selling custom full front end fender covers for the home mechanic. Im doing quite well in my retirement sewing a few days a week. I make more than i did teaching with 30 years with a Masters degree and work a hell of a lot less. Thank you sewing classes!
Funny, schools no longer offer typing, sewing and home economics anymore. But, they do teach racism, body mutilation, and pop a pill for an ill. How is that working for us?
My two older sisters had the same school experience. By the time I was old enough to learn them, the homemaking arts had been removed from the public school curriculum. This was in the mid-70s. I suspect the decision was fueled by the women's liberation movement. I MISSED OUT! My sisters patiently taught me those skills (the very basics), but to this day, I long to master needlecrafts to the degree that my sisters did because of their many hours of classroom instruction and hands-on learning.
We still had Home Ec in school. I was resistant and did not learn a thing. Even my mother gave up trying to teach me to sew on a button. Yet I began to want to sew clothes in high school, making all kinds of mistakes of course! When I had children, I would sew for them, because they didn't mind my mistakes. Years later, I learned pattern making and began to produce sewing patterns; Victoria Jones Collection . My pattern making teacher expected us to be accurate within 1/32" by hand. I loved it all and still do. The sewing book we used 40 years ago is still being reprinted today and to my mind, is still the best general sewing instruction book: The Readers Digest Complete Guide to Sewing. $21.50, and you can sew anything!
To this day I still use the cooking skills I learned in home ec, although they called it foods and nutrition by then. My mom, god rest her soul, taught me how to cook by using box mixes and cans, but that class taught me from scratch.
I learned to cook from scratch in school also,
while my Mom was not a terrible cook, I became better. I remember the days of Good House keeping 'recipes', Combine one 8oz can of XYZ with a 12oz box of ZZZ......etc.
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The classes from school that have done me the most good in life, were cooking classes. I have been able to prepare excellent healthy meals for myself and significant others.