I'm so old I Remember when:

[notabitail]

I remember telling the home-ec teacher that I already knew how to make pancakes.

Had no idea that pancake mix even existed. I knew how to make them from scratch.

Everything they made in that class was from a mix--biscuit mix, pancake mix, gravy mix. We did cook spaghetti noodles...and covered them with canned sauce.

Weird. And they taught the girls to sew on a button. Still don't know why I was in that class, but it was required.

"How to Make a Mix" class is what it should have been called.

 

[MROO]

What - no streamers on the handle bars? Practically nekkid.

What - no streamers on the handle bars? Practically nekkid.

Duh! Anyone who knows ANYTHING knows there were streamers & a bell! So of COURSE I had streamers - purple & white. I even had a purple flower on the ting-a-ling bell! Man, I was SCHOOLIN'!

 

[jxp]

Well, that's not fair. We didn't have split girls/boys classes in my school. Everyone was required to take a semester of shop and a semester of home ec, usually in the same year, I think it was eighth grade.

I wish shop had included auto mechanics but it was wood working. You picked a few projects and worked on them for the semester. I think I made a mirror-backed wooden wall hanger for a potted plant, sort of like this. It was fun but I would rather have learned about car engines.

I got to take both auto mechanics shop and photography in high school. We'd do simple things like change oil, rotate tires, and tune-ups on the cars of teachers brave enough to trust a bunch of high schoolers. We also learned about combustion engines and helped the shop teacher rebuild one for a car he was restoring. No wheres near as cool as the one from Grease.

In photography we used black and white film, learned about aperture, exposure, shutter speed, background, lighting, framing your shot, developed our own pictures in the school's dark room, oil tinting, and a whole lotta other things I can't remember the names of. It was actually quite enjoyable. Next room over from the photography class was woodworking shop. My brother got to take that but I ran out of room in my schedule because of all the Scholars AP classes. I loved looking in on the progress the students were making on a full-size replica of the liberty bell they presented for bicentennial. Meanwhile, the woodworking shop teacher worked on making a grandfather clock during his free period.

Good times.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I got to take both auto mechanics shop and photography in high school. We'd do simple things like change oil, rotate tires, and tune-ups on the cars of teachers brave enough to trust a bunch of high schoolers. We also learned about combustion engines and helped the shop teacher rebuild one for a car he was restoring. No wheres near as cool as the one from Grease.

In photography we used black and white film, learned about aperture, exposure, shutter speed, background, lighting, framing your shot, developed our own pictures in the school's dark room, oil tinting, and a whole lotta other things I can't remember the names of. It was actually quite enjoyable. Next room over from the photography class was woodworking shop. My brother got to take that but I ran out of room in my schedule because of all the Scholars AP classes. I loved looking in on the progress the students were making on a full-size replica of the liberty bell they presented for bicentennial. Meanwhile, the woodworking shop teacher worked on making a grandfather clock during his free period.

Good times.

Wow, that's way cooler than what we had!! Awesome.

I was a kid when Grease came out. I didn't get any of the sexual stuff in that song until I was much older. I think I just misheard a lot of it and made it into something I could understand. For example (not sexual) the 405 is a major freeway in southern California and when he sings "burning up the quarter mile" I thought he was saying "burning up the 405."

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Convenient.

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And unsanitary! Gross, eeww.

 

[MROO]

I wanted to take "shop" but I couldn't because I was a female. By the time our kids were in Jr High they were able to choose shop or home ec. I told the girls to take shop and our son to take home ec. I figured as they got older they would learn how to cook or use tools by themselves. Our son actually loved home ec he was the only boy in a class full of girls.

My mom's name is Jamey. When she got to high school, she was mistakenly put in shop and the boys' PE class. My grandfather argued her case and she was allowed to stay in shop. They taught everything from car maintenance to fixing home appliances. I remember being impressed when she cut the cord on our broken toaster and replaced the plug. She always was - and remains - a very cool lady!

Pop-Pop didn't fight the locker-room transfer, even though he knew his feisty little girl could give them all a run for their money!

 

[RoyalChick]

My mom's name is Jamey. When she got to high school, she was mistakenly put in shop and the boys' PE class. My grandfather argued her case and she was allowed to stay in shop. They taught everything from car maintenance to fixing home appliances. I remember being impressed when she cut the cord on our broken toaster and replaced the plug. She always was - and remains - a very cool lady!

Pop-Pop didn't fight the locker-room transfer, even though he knew his feisty little girl could give them all a run for their money!

They didn’t have either shop or home economics at my school. My Dad taught me to change a plug (along with a lecture about correctly rated fuses) and my Mom taught me how to use basic tools.
Someone attempted to teach me how to sew a buttonhole (can’t imagine either of my parents knew how to do that) but that lesson didn’t really stick.
My grandmother taught me to knit but she was left handed so apparently I knit strangely!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hmm. I didn't get shop OR Home Ec at my school. I got either 3 or 4 years of Latin, though, (don't remember) and I can diagram a sentence like nobody's business! (I know ... like who's going to hire me to do that, right? Nobody ever did, tbh! )

 

[RoyalChick]

Hmm. I didn't get shop OR Home Ec at my school. I got either 3 or 4 years of Latin, though, (don't remember) and I can diagram a sentence like nobody's business! (I know ... like who's going to hire me to do that, right? Nobody ever did, tbh! )

Exactly the same for me - except weirdly I never got English grammar lessons, only Latin!