So Guys...

[KristaTX]

Not a problem. Mentally noted. But I have somewhat of a photographic memory. If yo could send something to help with that....

You can check out my avatar . That's me many moons ago.

 

[Becky2005]

Oops. . .Wait a sec. I took "guys" in the thread title to mean "y'all". In case you wonder if I'm a boy, I'm not .

Judging from location of the OP -- you took the "So guys..." correctly!!!

We had Home Ec & "shop" in Junior High...I stunk at shop, so basically the teacher ended up doing 99% of my work for the big project. Basically, I would ask for help and he would just take over -- not that I was going to stand in his way or anything! My DD seemed to have the same knack of having friends that were guys in her class that umm...did most of the work with the tools (they scared her & even though she passed the safety test the idea that you could cut body parts off made her want to avoid them like the plague!).

We made clipboards out of several pieces of wood as one of our first projects. My final project was a nightstand that ended up not being stained nor did the back ever get finished.

We had Home Ec and a boy ended up getting a needle stuck through his finger in my class. I could even tell you who it was! Luckily...*I* was in the other part of the room when it happened. DD told me that can't happen with the machines in her school now, they have a safety turn-off feature. Actually, their machines do 90% of the work for them...they just have to guide the fabric in it seems. I made a skateboard pillow -- that's all I remember making from a kit. DD brought home the book as her Home Ec teacher would let us order anything we wanted at the discount rate but it all had to be done when she was placing the order...the skateboard I made was still in the book!!!!

Cooking I have no idea -- I was just glad to survive the class. I'm a picky eater so just had to choke down taste of some of the stuff we made since I didn't even like the ingredients going INTO it, the final product was usually no better. About the only thing I remember from that class is how to make sure your liquid ingredients are the correct amount in the measuring cup.

Both classes were required.

I know my kids have Home Ec. one semester and "Tech Ed" now one semester in 7th grade. Part of Tech Ed is doing Power Point presentations! We certainly didn't do that in 7th grade -- we were barely allowed to use calculators much less know what the world a computer WAS much less have one in the classroom. Then in 8th grade they get to pick if they want to continue in either of those or take a foreign language.

Typing was a required class to graduate if I recall correctly (I'm pretty sure since everyone just took it...I don't remember it being optional). That was taught Sophmore year & then Junior year you could take the Computer classes on the Apple IIe's.

 

[DrZoidberg]

I am 33 and can still sew because of the class in JR High.

 

[golfgal]

I took typing class in 5th grade. Everyone should learn to type while still in gradeschool.

Some of us are so old that this was never an option. Some of us are so old that we learned to type on an actual typewriter and you didn't have that option until high school--no computers around back in the dark ages.

We had home-ec in jr high. We had cooking and sewing classes. I made a pillow that looked like a light bulb, a down vest and I attempted to knit a blanket. We cooked all kinds of things.

Our kids are in jr high and they have home-ec as well-although the new politically correct term for it is Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS). They have cooking, sewing and home management (balancing a checkbook, etc). They also take shop class each year.

 

[ICF]

no home ec, but I did take keyboarding....since not many people were using typewriters when I was in HS.

 

[Todd&Copper]

I know you are asking about dudes who took Home Ec or Typing, but my sister took Shop [or Exploring Technologies, as it was called in the early 1990s] for 3 years. She made some awesome stuff in that class. My parents still have the foot stool and the clock she made.

 

[Kies99]

I had to take Home Ec around 5-6 grade. After that it wasn't required.

I took typing in high school and that was the probably the best thing I learned in high school! To this day I don't have to look at a keyboard to type (20 years this year since I left HS).

 

[Charade]

I remember taking a typing class but don't remember taking a home ec class. If I did, I must have blocked it out of my memory. But I must say though, I'm better at cleaning and laundry than my wife is. She's a better cook.

 

[Praying Colonel]

what about health class?

I went to school so long ago that "health class" was just in the early stages of being taught. No, it was not helpful at all.

 

[MickyamI]

I took typing in High School...but mainly because of all the girls in the class.. Yes I was the only guy in this particular class But I actually did learn to type and it has served me well all these years! And yes I did date two of the girls in that class...ahhhh the memories....

 

[DarthKTrava]

At DH's high school.... every boy was required to take one semester of home-ec and the girls were required to take one semester of shop class, in order to graduate. I've never taken either....

I didn't take either. But I did take typing class. On actual typewriters.

 

[Cool-Beans]

I was an EXCELLENT typist. At one time, I could type 80 wpm. It's probably 50-60 now.

I took Home-Ec but cannot sew.