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Originally posted by BetteDavisEyes
My younger sister once brought home a yearbook from the middle school we both attended but it was a yearbook from 1954. When I was perusing the pages, I noticed a page for the "Future Homemakers of America" class. This was not a club. It was a class that girls were required to take. This only goes to show how far we've come since then.
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I was required to take Home Ec class in jr high, and I graduated well after 1954. At the same time the guys all had to take shop, which I would argue is much more useless than home ec. I don't see anything wrong with having a high school class for women AND men to teach the basics of cooking, mending etc. Not everyone has someone around to teach them that stuff, and it's scary how clueless some people are about the basics of running a home and taking care of yourself.