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Janet

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> On 11/01/2016 5:21 AM, Janet wrote:
> >
> > Nancy wrote
> >>>
> >>> They need to teach personal finance in the schools.
> >
> > I went to an all-girls High school in a small rural town in England
> > in the late 50's early 60's, and that's exactly what they did. It was
> > rather unusual then and I don't think it's done now.
> >
> > Disguised as the Arithmetic part of Maths, we were taught how to
> > budget household accounts, how to calculate simple and compound interest
> > on mortgage loans, how to fill in income tax returns, subtract every
> > possible tax-free allowance and calculate the tax due: and how to fill
> > in a cheque.
> >
> > Of course,at the time we thought it was duller than dust :-)
> >
> > Janet UK
> >
> Back in the 50s and 60s in rural Aust, girls were taught 'Home
> Economics'. That included cooking, sewing and, as you've noted, family
> budgeting, though not disguised within the maths subject. The boys, on
> the other hand, did woodwork, metalwork, tech drawing and, in the case
> of that particular school, agriculture. It was one of the few remaining
> ag schools, after all.

We were taught cooking and how to sew (hand and machine) including all
kinds of seam; make clothes including fitting zips and making button
holes, darn, weave, knit, do macrame, and make fishing nets (even though
we were as far from the sea as its possible to be in England). Years
later I used my net-making skills to replace my sons' football goal
nets.

My husband at an all-boys school was taught tech drawing, woodwork and
metal work;he learned machine-sewing at home from tailor granny and
still repairs his own trousers, fits new pockets etc.

When my sons were in co-ed school, boys AND girls were all taught
woodwork, metalwork, cooking, knitting and hand and machine sewing.

Janet.