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2018-12-14 11:38:04 PM  
Shop
 
2018-12-14 11:39:19 PM  
They called it Home Economics, but the entire class was about how to be a stay-at-home wife and there wasn't anything about shopping for groceries, mailing checks for bills, or balancing checkbooks.

So where was the economics?
 
2018-12-14 11:53:12 PM  
When I was in high school, we had home ec for guys

/It was called bachelor living
//I got straight A's in ordering pizza
 
2018-12-15 1:01:05 AM  
Our kids had this, but it was a whole class. How to do some basic stuff like write a check, manage a bank account, run a budget, wash your clothes, some legal stuff like you need a drivers license to drive, what to do if you get sick, and how cook some very basic things like pasta or cheese on bread. I think that this really helped some of them.
 
2018-12-15 1:18:05 AM  
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fusillade762  
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2018-12-15 3:11:35 AM  
At this point I think we'd be better off bringing back civics classes.
 
2018-12-15 3:16:34 AM  
...go on
 
Mock26  
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2018-12-15 3:27:06 AM  
1 day? To prepare them for adulthood?

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2018-12-15 3:28:19 AM  

MaudlinMutantMollusk: When I was in high school, we had home ec for guys

/It was called bachelor living
//I got straight A's in ordering pizza


When I went to high school in the late 80s/early 90s everybody took both shop and home ec. It wasn't very well thought out, it was just the old courses they probably had in the 60s or 70s, but without assigning them to genders. I have not done any woodworking or sewing since.
 
Big Lee  
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2018-12-15 3:30:13 AM  

itcamefromschenectady: I have not done any woodworking [...] since


I don't believe you.
 
Dave2042  
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2018-12-15 3:36:27 AM  
My mother taught me to cook.  My father taught me some basic finance.
They also taught me to have some self respect and to look for opportunities to learn stuff that seemed useful.
My wife and I have taught these same things to our children.  It wasn't particularly hard or onerous, as we were not trying to create superhumans, just normal capable humans.
That said, I guess we are just lucky not to be mouth-breathing cretins.
 
mononymous  
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2018-12-15 3:41:55 AM  
I was into adult-core before it was cool.  You've probably never heard of it.
 
2018-12-15 3:58:32 AM  
We needed whining gits on farcebook to suggest kids aren't equipped for the real world.

Truly the worst timeline.
 
2018-12-15 4:01:17 AM  
Do they teach how to do taxes or use basic personal finance software?  Those need to be mandatory.
 
2018-12-15 4:02:09 AM  
Eck?
 
stk  
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2018-12-15 4:06:25 AM  
I really enjoyed home ec. We learned to sew and patch up clothes (which has come in handy many times), some really good cooking and baking fundamentals, basic home repair, etc. I really appreciate it now. We need more long term classes like that so every kid can learn to be more self-reliant.
 
khatores  
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2018-12-15 4:11:12 AM  
Our home ec consisted of...
1) STDs, STDs, don't get STDs, whatever you do don't get an ST OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
2) Wear your seatbelt, whatever you do OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
3) Don't get kidnapped, don't get kidnapped, whatever you do don't OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!

We actually learned about credit, writing a check, basic DUI law, etc in a completely unrelated class, thanks to a teacher who knew what home ec was supposed to be, and openly snickered at the home ec teacher. The teacher who taught things was the real deal, extremely popular and knew what she was talking about from firsthand experience due to significant traveling and drinking.

So this particular teacher had a pretty awesome outro. She was an heiress, a big football fan and apparently could put down a few drinks. She always called in a sub for the day after a popular regional college football game. One particular year, the Vice Principal (who didn't like her) apparently decided to cancel the sub and call her in anyway. She came in FURIOUS and I could smell the alcohol from the second row. She went on a tirade, threw the overly bureaucratic curriculum binder in the trash and declared that she was quitting.  It was AWESOME.

Needless to say, we threw her a huge party in the science lab (she was best buds with the chemistry teacher, and we had a fairly large chemistry lab), everyone showed up and we made it a huge article in the newspaper and even in the yearbook. In later years, she went back to traveling and last I heard, divorced her kinda loser husband.

Best teacher ever.
 
2018-12-15 4:20:00 AM  
I believe it was like 3rd or 4th grade when they started teaching us how to fill out a check and how to balance a bank account ledger.

Home economics only contained cooking for us, and by the time high school cane around, most of our shop classes were being defunded. I'm damn lucky to have gotten what I could from school, and got a huge chunk from my parents for cooking & home repair.

What would really be great is a class that explains consumer-level investing. Ie explaining & mitigating losses on car purchases & loans, risk/rewards of investing, and maintaining
& manipulating a credit score. Most importantly the psychology of marketing and how to protect yourself. I had a teacher one time in a government class that detoured into supermarkets & how they manipulate impulse purchases & face product to almost hide the less expensive items in order to maximize consumer spending. It was a real eye-opener that influenced me for the rest of my life. But again I realize that schools aren't actually there to empower students...

The wife and I have decided that if we have kids, these will be among the many life skills we pass among.
 
2018-12-15 4:26:26 AM  

khatores: Our home ec consisted of...
1) STDs, STDs, don't get STDs, whatever you do don't get an ST OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
2) Wear your seatbelt, whatever you do OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
3) Don't get kidnapped, don't get kidnapped, whatever you do don't OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!

We actually learned about credit, writing a check, basic DUI law, etc in a completely unrelated class, thanks to a teacher who knew what home ec was supposed to be, and openly snickered at the home ec teacher. The teacher who taught things was the real deal, extremely popular and knew what she was talking about from firsthand experience due to significant traveling and drinking.

So this particular teacher had a pretty awesome outro. She was an heiress, a big football fan and apparently could put down a few drinks. She always called in a sub for the day after a popular regional college football game. One particular year, the Vice Principal (who didn't like her) apparently decided to cancel the sub and call her in anyway. She came in FURIOUS and I could smell the alcohol from the second row. She went on a tirade, threw the overly bureaucratic curriculum binder in the trash and declared that she was quitting.  It was AWESOME.

Needless to say, we threw her a huge party in the science lab (she was best buds with the chemistry teacher, and we had a fairly large chemistry lab), everyone showed up and we made it a huge article in the newspaper and even in the yearbook. In later years, she went back to traveling and last I heard, divorced her kinda loser husband.

Best teacher ever.


Huh. Sounds like an irresponsible muppet to me. Ex-husband probably better off.
 
khatores  
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2018-12-15 4:29:31 AM  

LiberalConservative: khatores: Our home ec consisted of...
1) STDs, STDs, don't get STDs, whatever you do don't get an ST OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
2) Wear your seatbelt, whatever you do OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
3) Don't get kidnapped, don't get kidnapped, whatever you do don't OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!

We actually learned about credit, writing a check, basic DUI law, etc in a completely unrelated class, thanks to a teacher who knew what home ec was supposed to be, and openly snickered at the home ec teacher. The teacher who taught things was the real deal, extremely popular and knew what she was talking about from firsthand experience due to significant traveling and drinking.

So this particular teacher had a pretty awesome outro. She was an heiress, a big football fan and apparently could put down a few drinks. She always called in a sub for the day after a popular regional college football game. One particular year, the Vice Principal (who didn't like her) apparently decided to cancel the sub and call her in anyway. She came in FURIOUS and I could smell the alcohol from the second row. She went on a tirade, threw the overly bureaucratic curriculum binder in the trash and declared that she was quitting.  It was AWESOME.

Needless to say, we threw her a huge party in the science lab (she was best buds with the chemistry teacher, and we had a fairly large chemistry lab), everyone showed up and we made it a huge article in the newspaper and even in the yearbook. In later years, she went back to traveling and last I heard, divorced her kinda loser husband.

Best teacher ever.

Huh. Sounds like an irresponsible muppet to me. Ex-husband probably better off.


You had to be there. It was the 90s.
 
2018-12-15 4:42:41 AM  
It was called 'life skills' when my kids were in high school. Things like personal finance and taxes, how to sew on a button or iron a shirt, check the oil and tire pressure in a car, cooking basic items, etc. Pretty good course and it was for male and female students both.
 
Ishkur [OhFark]  
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2018-12-15 4:44:12 AM  
Sewing, baking, woodworking, and metalworking.

4 skills you can do around the house by the age of 13 and you'll probably do throughout your life: How to fix your clothes, how to make your food, how to use tools, and how to make/follow plans for assembly and repair.
 
assalon5 [TotalFark]  
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2018-12-15 4:44:14 AM  
Had a blast in home Ec, wish my wife for 40 years took it and could cook. Not I have to cook every meal.

/and still have to beg for SEX I have to cook and give it up the terror.
 
Nogale  
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2018-12-15 5:05:18 AM  
Or you can do what my sister-in-law does, which is to hide all sharp kitchen utensils away at the back of the cabinet so her daughter won't grab one and hurt herself.

Her daughter just turned 9 and still asks people to cut her food for her. No, I don't see any connection.
 
Iczer  
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2018-12-15 5:14:29 AM  

stk: I really enjoyed home ec. We learned to sew and patch up clothes (which has come in handy many times), some really good cooking and baking fundamentals, basic home repair, etc. I really appreciate it now. We need more long term classes like that so every kid can learn to be more self-reliant.


Home Ec in middle school for me was mainly due to me liking to cook.

The fact the class was was split like 70/30 girls/boys didn't hurt.
 
Pichu0102  
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2018-12-15 5:27:05 AM  
In home ec class in high school, it was all hands on stuff. I think. I spent the entire class collecting pins used in sewing I found on the floor into bins all class instead and the teacher just let me. I was not very productive in that class.
 
2018-12-15 5:32:11 AM  

Claude Ballse: I believe it was like 3rd or 4th grade when they started teaching us how to fill out a check and how to balance a bank account ledger.

Home economics only contained cooking for us, and by the time high school cane around, most of our shop classes were being defunded. I'm damn lucky to have gotten what I could from school, and got a huge chunk from my parents for cooking & home repair.

What would really be great is a class that explains consumer-level investing. Ie explaining & mitigating losses on car purchases & loans, risk/rewards of investing, and maintaining
& manipulating a credit score. Most importantly the psychology of marketing and how to protect yourself. I had a teacher one time in a government class that detoured into supermarkets & how they manipulate impulse purchases & face product to almost hide the less expensive items in order to maximize consumer spending. It was a real eye-opener that influenced me for the rest of my life. But again I realize that schools aren't actually there to empower students...

The wife and I have decided that if we have kids, these will be among the many life skills we pass among.


Just put it in your mind that you're raising adults and include them in everything.  Kids are sponges and learn best with early repetition.

I've watched parents park their kids in front of a screen and then get busy cooking, cleaning, etc.  Then they whine that the kids are lazy, demanding, ungrateful, etc.  The kids are simply untrained.

It doesn't have to be boot camp, you just decide early on that perfection is not the goal.  Competence is.  If you are used to grocery shopping alone, for example, add 20-25 minutes, take the kid and show them comparison shopping.  Same with household chores.

If parents would grow up and realize that kids are not fashion accessories or redo attempts for the past, things would quickly improve.
 
Jedekai [OhFark]  
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2018-12-15 5:59:19 AM  

khatores: Our home ec consisted of...
1) STDs, STDs, don't get STDs, whatever you do don't get an ST OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
2) Wear your seatbelt, whatever you do OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
3) Don't get kidnapped, don't get kidnapped, whatever you do don't OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!

We actually learned about credit, writing a check, basic DUI law, etc in a completely unrelated class, thanks to a teacher who knew what home ec was supposed to be, and openly snickered at the home ec teacher. The teacher who taught things was the real deal, extremely popular and knew what she was talking about from firsthand experience due to significant traveling and drinking.

So this particular teacher had a pretty awesome outro. She was an heiress, a big football fan and apparently could put down a few drinks. She always called in a sub for the day after a popular regional college football game. One particular year, the Vice Principal (who didn't like her) apparently decided to cancel the sub and call her in anyway. She came in FURIOUS and I could smell the alcohol from the second row. She went on a tirade, threw the overly bureaucratic curriculum binder in the trash and declared that she was quitting.  It was AWESOME.

Needless to say, we threw her a huge party in the science lab (she was best buds with the chemistry teacher, and we had a fairly large chemistry lab), everyone showed up and we made it a huge article in the newspaper and even in the yearbook. In later years, she went back to traveling and last I heard, divorced her kinda loser husband.

Best teacher ever.


Our Home Ec. Teacher (1999 - Sophomore) was a "twist-and-yank" feminist. I have dated feminists. I'm certain her husband's name was Evan Braun.

Anyway, everyone else got the HE teacher who drove a '90s Thunderbird and smoked Benson & Hedges and got the job by virtue of having enough credits in instructional generals to qualify.

I hate you people like she hated my Cradle of Filth and KMFDM shirts.
 
2018-12-15 6:28:13 AM  

Ishkur: Sewing, baking, woodworking, and metalworking.

4 skills you can do around the house by the age of 13 and you'll probably do throughout your life: How to fix your clothes, how to make your food, how to use tools, and how to make/follow plans for assembly and repair.


This. Personally, would add it was being a child of the '70s or '80s helped. There were dividends we didn't know learning how something worked. Or, something as simple as threading a bobbin, re-sewing a button or cutting a whole chicken. The parents were not going to but me a new Walkman if I dropped it on the concrete. We did not have a cell phone to call if the 10-speed threw a chain. Get a screwdriver and figure it out.

My son was consistently surprised when we get together for a task. Last week we bled the slave cylinder on my Datsun and cranked it. We also used 10 lb test and a needle to resew a side bolster on his drivers' seat. His friend filmed the ordeal on phone because he was out of his element or thought the jack would collapse and kill us. Truth is, as I found out later, he wanted to impress his mother in the event he could assist in something as simple as jump-starting a car. He asked me the entire process. The only critique I gave was, 'you can't do this with a phone in your hand'.

/Apologies up front for being 50ish, bootstrappy and sounding like an old guy,
//old guy
 
2018-12-15 6:29:47 AM  
Home Ec was my favorite class, I was the only guy.
 
2018-12-15 6:36:37 AM  
Back in the day mine focused on sewing (like making a pillow cover sewing) and cooking.  Our collective education systems badly need an updated curriculum for this stuff, not everyone has supportive or even parents at all that can teach these sorts of life skills.

My personal add-in would be to make sure that high school math draws the line, in big fat red marker, from how compound percentages work and what credit cards do.  So many people just don't understand how much money they are throwing away by using credit irresponsibly and those companies are banking on it.
 
2018-12-15 7:06:02 AM  
Now I assured the middle and high schools I went to were remedial. We had to take Home Ec once a semester, traded offf by Shop the alternating semester.

I learned: the 450lb she-beast in 7th grade really hated us wearing makeup so she would dig through our purses to find and confiscate it, only to meet with parents like mine who told her it was the dematologist's directve and cost $55 a bottle so if any of that nonsense happened again they were going to take it up with the district admin. After that she stopped taking makeup unless it was being used in class. I do not recall learning anything in that class other than the makeup thing.

Next year we made pillowcases on a sewing machine. My aunt was a professional seamstress and I had learned to sew barbie clothes by the 1st grade, so this was not a xlass where anything else was learned.

Freshman year: made the bst cinnamon rolls from scratch that I ever in my life had eaten, to this day! We cooked a lot in that class. Much of it was focused on kitchen safety and meals.

Sophmore year: started to learn how to use a checkbook. Late to the game on that since I opened my account in middle school.

Junior year: enrolled in an accelerated program to get the hell out of school.


Neither of my kids classes of ('16 and '17) had to take Home Ec. Same school dist. as me, 20 yrs later. Things I wished they had a chance with a real Home Ec class to learn because "OMG mom you're like soooo laaame, you like don't even know anything" anytime I attempted to show them.
 
2018-12-15 7:07:43 AM  
I wish I remembered to how to make eggrolls. That was the one food we cooked in grade 7 or 8 Home Economics. We also learned how to write a cheque. And sew a simple drawstring sack.

In grade 8 we got paired with another classmate and got "married" (omg heteronormative assumptions much?) and we had to look in the newspaper for a job, "interview", budget for weekly groceries, find a place to live (also via newspaper ads.)  I think that was a good project.

It's great to be taught these things young, but I think they should also be part of a mandatory class in high school when you're closer to actually DOING these things.
 
2018-12-15 7:24:45 AM  

zeroflight222: Do they teach how to do taxes or use basic personal finance software?  Those need to be mandatory.


How the hell is that going to help the bankers and are other corporate overlords? Big waste of time.
 
2018-12-15 7:26:04 AM  
Writing checks and doing taxes is cool and all, but you can do it online following stupid simple instructions and clicking through  If we aren't teaching the students how to read calendars or even how to read or ask for help I'd consider those larger problems. Also  maybe your school doesn't teach cooking. Go get a job that will? Or again  you can look at the shiny box in your hand and learn almost anything  It's gonna be OK
 
2018-12-15 7:56:03 AM  
We never had anything like that when I was in high school.

Home Economics was blatantly a class for girls, they spent most of their time baking.

The closest we got to anything even vaguely like that was Health class, first semester of High School (second semester was Physical Education). . .and that was because our teacher liked to ramble on about how we were all so unprepared for the real world (we were farking 13 or 14!) and in his long monologues he'd blather on about paying bills or doing laundry ect. . .but it wasn't a formal part of the curriculum, most of us tuned his speeches out, and I'm pretty sure his information was 30 years outdated, at best.  He said we had no idea how to get a job, that to get a job we'd have to "hit the bricks" and "walk to every office in town putting in applications, be a go-getter, apply to everything, that's how you get a job, take whatever they offer you, start in the mailroom and work your way up to the boardroom!".  Don't think it's been like that since the '60's, maybe the '70's at the latest.

I could see something like this being useful as a real class.

Basic cooking of staple foods.  Fry up a burger.  Fix pasta.  Make a cake from a box mix.  Cook a cheap steak.  Make pancakes from bisquick.  Cook scrambled eggs.  Ect.

How to do laundry.  Don't imbalance the load.  Don't use bleach on colors.  Don't mix whites and colors ect.

Paying bills and managing credit.

Realistic expectations about job hunting and the workplace.  (My mother sent me off into the world with ideas much the same as my Health teacher, saying it's easy for "a college man" to get a big job at "any firm downtown" and that if I couldn't just walk into any office building and say I was a college student and wanted a job and get a "nice, desk job" thrown at me for the asking, I was lazy or doing it wrong).

Lessons on social media responsibility.  Make sure kids know nice and early about being safe online, about how once it's on the internet it's there forever ect.
 
johnnygew  
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2018-12-15 8:16:36 AM  
I think I should study this.
Maybe I will go off to look at some Adult websites - let's see where the Google leads me.

/I'll be away for a while - this may need more 'research'
 
2018-12-15 8:22:32 AM  
adulting?
are the prerequisites for this infanting, childing, adolescenting, and teenagering?
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Fubegra  
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2018-12-15 8:23:08 AM  

Silverstaff: Lessons on social media responsibility. Make sure kids know nice and early about being safe online, about how once it's on the internet it's there forever ect.


Of course, if that advice caught on, we'd have fewer Fark headlines.

Seriously, that advice is spot-on, though. I'm still trying to figure out how such a large chunk of the population happily shares every damn thing they do on Facebook. It used to be that Rule 1 of online security was don't post that shiat under your real name.
 
monsupio  
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2018-12-15 8:24:44 AM  
Hell I work with kids that have no idea how to fill out a check. Glad I'll be dead when these morons take control of the USA.
 
Fano  
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2018-12-15 8:29:45 AM  

LiberalConservative: khatores: Our home ec consisted of...
1) STDs, STDs, don't get STDs, whatever you do don't get an ST OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
2) Wear your seatbelt, whatever you do OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
3) Don't get kidnapped, don't get kidnapped, whatever you do don't OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!

We actually learned about credit, writing a check, basic DUI law, etc in a completely unrelated class, thanks to a teacher who knew what home ec was supposed to be, and openly snickered at the home ec teacher. The teacher who taught things was the real deal, extremely popular and knew what she was talking about from firsthand experience due to significant traveling and drinking.

So this particular teacher had a pretty awesome outro. She was an heiress, a big football fan and apparently could put down a few drinks. She always called in a sub for the day after a popular regional college football game. One particular year, the Vice Principal (who didn't like her) apparently decided to cancel the sub and call her in anyway. She came in FURIOUS and I could smell the alcohol from the second row. She went on a tirade, threw the overly bureaucratic curriculum binder in the trash and declared that she was quitting.  It was AWESOME.

Needless to say, we threw her a huge party in the science lab (she was best buds with the chemistry teacher, and we had a fairly large chemistry lab), everyone showed up and we made it a huge article in the newspaper and even in the yearbook. In later years, she went back to traveling and last I heard, divorced her kinda loser husband.

Best teacher ever.

Huh. Sounds like an irresponsible muppet to me. Ex-husband probably better off.


I know what role you'd have in every school movie ever made
 
2018-12-15 8:30:10 AM  

monsupio: Hell I work with kids that have no idea how to fill out a check. Glad I'll be dead when these morons take control of the USA.


To their credit:  When's the last time you had to actually do that?  My check book has my address from like 9 years ago written on them all and I think I've used two and both were to provide empty ones when signing up for direct deposit/withdrawl.  E-transfers and such have completely replaced my one-off needs to transfer money around.
 
2018-12-15 8:31:47 AM  

assalon5: Had a blast in home Ec, wish my wife for 40 years took it and could cook. Not I have to cook every meal.

/and still have to beg for SEX I have to cook and give it up the terror.


You should consider yourself lucky.  Most wives won't even take it up the terror.
 
2018-12-15 8:36:31 AM  

monsupio: Hell I work with kids that have no idea how to fill out a check. Glad I'll be dead when these morons take control of the USA.


I've worked with people that didn't know how to address an envelope. I'd say it was because they weren't born here, but I'd think addressing an envelope was generally the same the world-over.
 
2018-12-15 8:45:03 AM  

BumpInTheNight: monsupio: Hell I work with kids that have no idea how to fill out a check. Glad I'll be dead when these morons take control of the USA.

To their credit:  When's the last time you had to actually do that?  My check book has my address from like 9 years ago written on them all and I think I've used two and both were to provide empty ones when signing up for direct deposit/withdrawl.  E-transfers and such have completely replaced my one-off needs to transfer money around.


I write a check once a year to the IRS at tax time. Aside from that, I used one two years ago when the auto glass guy came to my house to replace a broken window. I think a lot of home service probably still takes place by check, as like me, most people just don't trust swiping their card through some random persons phone.

I think a lot of people also pay rent by check or money order, as many landlords and apartment offices either don't take cards, or charge a ridiculous "convenience fee" to do so.
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]  
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2018-12-15 8:45:11 AM  
In my area health has migrated south to 5th grade and shop is seen as something those losers in vocational schools take.

I had one semester of home ec in the late 1970s, unisex, then I switched to schools that didn't make you take home ec, shop, or health.
 
Fabric_Man [BareFark]  
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2018-12-15 8:47:15 AM  
In middle school, I learned how to cook eggs, patch clothing, and change a diaper. I also learned how to use power tools safely, wire a household electrical socket, and apply paint with a roller. Back in fifth grade I had learned how to use and balance a checkbook. All classes were mixed, and required.

Nowadays, all that stuff has been stricken from the curriculum so there's more time to Ludovico the students with NCLB material.
 
sunsetlamp  
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2018-12-15 8:48:41 AM  

khatores: Our home ec consisted of...
1) STDs, STDs, don't get STDs, whatever you do don't get an ST OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
2) Wear your seatbelt, whatever you do OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!
3) Don't get kidnapped, don't get kidnapped, whatever you do don't OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR!!!!

We actually learned about credit, writing a check, basic DUI law, etc in a completely unrelated class, thanks to a teacher who knew what home ec was supposed to be, and openly snickered at the home ec teacher. The teacher who taught things was the real deal, extremely popular and knew what she was talking about from firsthand experience due to significant traveling and drinking.

So this particular teacher had a pretty awesome outro. She was an heiress, a big football fan and apparently could put down a few drinks. She always called in a sub for the day after a popular regional college football game. One particular year, the Vice Principal (who didn't like her) apparently decided to cancel the sub and call her in anyway. She came in FURIOUS and I could smell the alcohol from the second row. She went on a tirade, threw the overly bureaucratic curriculum binder in the trash and declared that she was quitting.  It was AWESOME.

Needless to say, we threw her a huge party in the science lab (she was best buds with the chemistry teacher, and we had a fairly large chemistry lab), everyone showed up and we made it a huge article in the newspaper and even in the yearbook. In later years, she went back to traveling and last I heard, divorced her kinda loser husband.

Best teacher ever.


She's too hungover to work so she flies into a rage and quits on the spot because screw you she has money.

Narrow escape for the husband there.
 
2018-12-15 8:53:54 AM  
My kids won't learn how to balance a checkbook. I haven't seen one since early 90's and don't think they're making a comeback any time soon.
Excel however, thats the real shiat. I'm gonna teach them that.
 
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2018-12-15 8:58:52 AM  
I rember going into the Home ec classroom for some reason, around 1980. There were many stoves in that room, and I notice all the carssity football player were attending class in there, I thought that was strange. Later, I learned to cook and take care of myself just fine, so much so my Grandmother said I could do it all and rto tell those girls to stay away, but I like those girls. I still take care of the house, do the maintenance on it, and I still do most of the cooking, my Boys think nothing of it. But they're all in their twenties, and though the younger one has moved out, he's staying with us over Xmas break, we take care of him and he doesn't have to do anything.We're supposed to be empty nesters, but they won't go!
 
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