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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My middle school as a kid required every kid take a semester of wood shop, metal shop, home ec cooking, home ec sewing, keyboard, guitar, mechanical drawing, and art. It exposed all the students to some CTE and helped some kids make the choice to apply to the votech school in the region instead of staying at the traditional HS. Everyone else learned how to handle some basic power tools and learn some basic life skills. I thought it was a good idea. [/quote]

My education was similar although we were exposed at even younger ages. We had wood shop in elementary school. We had home economics, typing, and art required in middle school. I also grew up in an area with an amazing vocational program. FCPS is seriously lacking here.[/quote]

Those courses are available for those interested in taking them and I’m quite happy FCPS no longer requires boys to take shop (“industrial arts”) and girls to take home economics, as was the case decades ago.  [/quote]

So different now, genuinely curious- Decades could be 20, but you’re not saying in 2006 FCPS required girls to take home ec and boys shop or even 30 years ago in 1996??? You mean stereotypical 1950s right?[/quote]

I’m an 1996 FCPS grad. Boys were not required to take shop and girls were not required to take home ec during any of my schooling years. [/quote]

I was in middle school in the late 1980s and high school in the early 1990s. My older brother is a full 10 years older than me, so he was in middle school in the late 1970s and high school in the early 1980s. All in FCPS.

It's been almost 40 years since I was in middle school and over 30 since high school. For my brother, it's been almost 50 years since middle school anf over 40 years since high school. That is definitely "decades ago," but even back then, FCPS did not require home ec ("Teen Living") for girls and Shop for boys. Maybe that was required in the 1950s or 1960s, but it definitely wasn't true for my brother or me.[/quote]

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