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If you graduated school prior to the year 2000, chances are, you might have taken a home economics<\/p>\n
or home studies class\u2026if you were a girl that is.There\u2019s no denying how useful it is to learn these principles of domesticity.<\/p>\n
However, the sexist thing about home economics is that boys didn\u2019t take these lessons.Nowadays, the idea of women and men looking after the home and family is more accepted.<\/p>\n
But sadly, home economics classes are dying out, and fewer schools are giving their children<\/p>\n
\u2013 girls and boys \u2013 the opportunity to learn the basic skills of adulthood.Many people want to see home ec being re-introduced to schools so that students are still<\/p>\n
learning the things that they just can\u2019t learn from Mathematics and History.<\/p>\n
This is especially the case in today\u2019s busy world, where parents work long hours and many high school<\/p>\n
kids come home to an empty house after school. They\u2019re expected to cook for themselves and do the basics, like washing and laundry.<\/p>\n
But how many of them are taught at school how to do this?<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no arguing the fact that home economics can teach kids to be more independent,<\/p>\n
too.A recent study found that 62.7 percent of the 3.1 million 2020 high school graduates in the US were enrolled in college that year.<\/p>\n
Many kids swapping home for a dorm room are having to fend for themselves for the first time.<\/p>\n
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Cooking nutritious meals, regularly doing the laundry, and maintaining a clean<\/p>\n
living environment are things they\u2019re more likely to do if they\u2019ve actually been taught how to do them at school.<\/p>\n
Home ec may have come under fire for being sexist, but that was then.<\/p>\n
Societal norms for women at home and in the workplace have now evolved rapidly,<\/p>\n
and it\u2019s rightly accepted that women aren\u2019t destined for a future of cooking, cleaning, and raising children \u2013 unless they want to.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s no reason why home economics can\u2019t still be taught today, to both sexes.<\/p>\n
Learning how to cook, wash, and do first aid is a start, but that\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n
Imagine if home economics could teach us how to change a tyre, file taxes or<\/p>\n
change a lightbulb. Many of us don\u2019t even know how to do these things now, as adults, and we might never learn.<\/p>\n
Having a dedicated space to learn this as kids makes a whole lot of sense,<\/p>\n
yet subjects of little use to our future selves are still prioritized in most schools.<\/p>\n
Of course, if all else fails, kids can still learn a lot from their own parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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