So girls...

[phorsenuf]

Who back in the day took shop class?

I remember making a plexiglas backgammon board.

 

[MinnieMe87]

Ooh I did!! I loved that class! I took it both years at Junior High. I remember making a paper towel rack, a wooden picture frame complete with a tin roof (it was in the shape of a house), a key rack, name plaques for desks, and a piggy bank!

 

[friendofgusgus]

Me, me, me!

Everyone in my jr high took shop exploration so we sepnt one marking period each in wood shop, print shop, metal shop and home ec.

I then took an additional year of wood shop. I was one of two girls in my class and we shared a worktable. I still have some of the small pieces of furniture I made that year and turned out to be very skilled with a jigsaw!

 

[Pixiedust34]

We had to take wood shop and metal shop. I made a shelf and a box. They were both lop-sided and ugly.

 

[clgwli]

In middle school we were required to. Everyone was required to take Home Ec as well. We did metal and wood for three years. I loved it.

I still use a wood stool that I made around the house. I also have the clock I made my last year doing it and it looks lovely. People cannot believe that I made it myself.

 

[harleyquinn]

I made a shelf/mirror thing that my parents still have hanging in their house. It's actually kind of cool.

The thing I really remember from shop was tapping out tin sheets with pictures--it was really cool.
I really enjoyed that class.

 

[mom2cinderella]

At my jr. high, girls took Home Ec. and boys took Shop. For six weeks, we switched. I didn't like Shop, or the teacher ("100 Proof Harry").

However, I still have the little wood box we made!

 

[phorsenuf]

I'm kinda surprised how many are saying they had to take it. It was required for us. I wonder if it had to do with when? For me it would have been around 1975-76

 

[Piglets Mommy]

I made a little wooden shelf thing and a metal candle sconce. I still have them in the basement somewhere. We had to take it in HS, though, not JR High. Boys had to take Home Ec, too.

 

[HelenePA]

It was required for me but I loved it.. I grad in 96. I made a wall shelf, a little step stool, and a small bookshelf..

 

[ReneeA]

We had the choice between shop and home-ec.

Who in their right mind would choose home-ec over shop? Even then, I knew I wasn't cut out for this cooking, cleaning and sewing bit.

 

[crz4mm2]

I wasn't allowed to take shop, but in High School, I took welding

 

[Stacerita]

I took wood shop and made a door stop.

 

[Darcy03231]

We weren't allowed to take shop. Girls took Home Ec and boys took Shop.

 

[suzannews]

I took metal shop in the 6th grade, made a tool box and a unicorn pin. Hated it back then but look back on it now and it wasn't so bad afterall!

 

[Cindy B]

Not required for my middle school or high school. I graduated in 1988.

However, my DH graduated in 1981 and remembers taking home ec in either high school or jr. high.

Home ec and shop classes aren't even offered any more around here.

 

[Goofyzgurl]

I took wood shop and auto shop. I made paper towel holder and some other things too. I think my parents still have the paper towel holder.

 

[Linzybrooke]

We had to take the "wheel" in 9th grade, a quarter each of metal shop, wood shop, graphic art and home-ec. I made an awesome clock on wood shop and a tool box and screwdriver in metal shop. I graduated in '99 in Minnesota.

I sort of teach shop now. I'm a technical theatre teacher in a high school, and I do a lot of carpentry work. I love it!

 

[DwarfMaster]

We had to take something different each semester for 7th & 8th grade. Plastics, Cooking, Sewing, Metals, Child Development...etc


We made ashtrays in plastics in the 7th grade....it went nicely with the Health class about the dangers of smoking

I made a box in woodshop.....I don't know how I even passed that class It was literally a box, the lid wasn't even hinged on.

I bailed out of metals...begged the Guidance Counselor to let me back in one of the home-ec classes.

 

[Cindy B]

We had to take the "wheel" in 9th grade, a quarter each of metal shop, wood shop, graphic art and home-ec. I made an awesome clock on wood shop and a tool box and screwdriver in metal shop. I graduated in '99 in Minnesota.

I sort of teach shop now. I'm a technical theatre teacher in a high school, and I do a lot of carpentry work. I love it!

Shop teachers are a dying breed around here. Never mind the FCS teachers!