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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Janet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> 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.

Those things were all options at my school. But we didn't necessarily get
the classes that we wanted. I didn't want to take sewing or cooking as I
already knew how to do those things but I was assigned to them. I would
rather have taken wood and metal shop.

We had an optional class in high school called Family Living and we were
taught there how to run a household.

Our schools here do offer a cooking class in high school as an option. Not
sure if there is shop.