When my kids were in their teens, I taught them how to sew on various types of buttons and how to iron.

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Anonymous wrote:When I was in ms, I took cooking, sewing, woodworking, metal shop, graphic design, and independent living ..fire safety, taxes, budgeting..80s

Yep, some of those or all are still much needed to function as an adult.

Which?
Fire safety and "independent living", maybe.

My son recently said he was tossing a shirt because the button came off. Sewing is still good! (I showed him how). Cooking also seems relevant. Metal shop less so

I miss my 1980s metal shop teacher, who had just a couple of teeth left by the time he taught us. He was also an on-the-road driver's ed teacher and would smoke while teaching me to parallel park.

Bring back driver's ed. Howard county still has them. Much more convenient to sit in class at your HS.

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Anonymous wrote:When I was in ms, I took cooking, sewing, woodworking, metal shop, graphic design, and independent living ..fire safety, taxes, budgeting..80s

Yep, some of those or all are still much needed to function as an adult.

Which?
Fire safety and "independent living", maybe.

What topics do they or did they cover in independent living?

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Anonymous wrote:When I was in ms, I took cooking, sewing, woodworking, metal shop, graphic design, and independent living ..fire safety, taxes, budgeting..80s

Yep, some of those or all are still much needed to function as an adult.

Which?
Fire safety and "independent living", maybe.

My son recently said he was tossing a shirt because the button came off. Sewing is still good! (I showed him how). Cooking also seems relevant. Metal shop less so

I miss my 1980s metal shop teacher, who had just a couple of teeth left by the time he taught us. He was also an on-the-road driver's ed teacher and would smoke while teaching me to parallel park.

I grew up in Ohio, where all 8th graders were required to take a semester of shop and a semester of home ec. That’s how I can sew buttons back on! I don’t have the tools to do anything I did in shop class, but I have thought about taking a wood working class as an adult.

One of my kids is taking Health B this semester and they’re currently working on financial literacy. It seems very odd to have that included in the health curriculum. We require some arts and tech credits, and math all 4 years, regardless of a student’s mathematical abilities, but we don’t offer any life skills classes?

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Anonymous wrote:When I was in ms, I took cooking, sewing, woodworking, metal shop, graphic design, and independent living ..fire safety, taxes, budgeting..80s

Yep, some of those or all are still much needed to function as an adult.

Which?
Fire safety and "independent living", maybe.

My son recently said he was tossing a shirt because the button came off. Sewing is still good! (I showed him how). Cooking also seems relevant. Metal shop less so

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Anonymous wrote:When I was in ms, I took cooking, sewing, woodworking, metal shop, graphic design, and independent living ..fire safety, taxes, budgeting..80s

Yep, some of those or all are still much needed to function as an adult.

Which?
Fire safety and "independent living", maybe.

Anonymous wrote:When I was in ms, I took cooking, sewing, woodworking, metal shop, graphic design, and independent living ..fire safety, taxes, budgeting..80s

Yep, some of those or all are still much needed to function as an adult.

When I was in ms, I took cooking, sewing, woodworking, metal shop, graphic design, and independent living ..fire safety, taxes, budgeting..80s

Did they have a similar class for boys in 1930s? How about Woodshop? Middle schools in 1980s/1990s had woodshop and classes were co-ed by then.

Anonymous wrote:We are probably not going back with those classes (even tho currently it seems like we are going back in society in the country). Check out the photo at link below. From 1930s at B-CC HS. Wonder if anyone's relative still around to remember this:

loc.gov/item/2016851292/

"Cooking class, Bethesda, Chevy Chase High School, 1935"

Anonymous wrote:It's Family and Consumer Sciences. I know they offer it in middle schools.

Which MCPS middle(s)?

We are probably not going back with those classes (even tho currently it seems like we are going back in society in the country). Check out the photo at link below. From 1930s at B-CC HS. Wonder if anyone's relative still around to remember this:

loc.gov/item/2016851292/

It's Family and Consumer Sciences. I know they offer it in middle schools.

Does this class exist in county's high schools? Which schools offer it?