[Magdalen] First day of school.

[Sibyl Smirl]

That's too bad!  While I learned my own Home Ec at home under my 
mother's tutelage (I learned a lot of things, including Reading, from my 
mother), a lot of kids need it desperately.  Even boys really should be 
able to take basic care of themselves.  For some kids, 4H makes up the 
lack.  But it's not "universal", as schools are.  How on earth do you 
live (with reasonable economy) if you have no clue how to sew on a button?


On 8/7/15 9:26 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 8/7/2015 10:14:30 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>
> The  other high school, which was closed in 1967, was a "lab
> school" for the  UW-Madison Dept. of Education. I guess they decided after
> that that it was  more expedient to send their student teachers elsewhere to
> practice  teach.>>>>>>
>
>
> On the subject of closings at UW-Madison, I was stunned to learn
> that the lovely Home EC house on campus which was quite near the
> original Wisconsin General Hospital/UW Medical School, is gone.
>
> It's been replaced by a high rise building from another department.
>
> My Cousin Connie, herself a Home EC graduate of UW-Stout back
> in the 1960's. tells me that there really is no such thing as "Home  EC"
> any more.  There are no Home EC majors and the subject as such
> is not taught anymore in high schools.
>
> It's ?apparently secondary to women's desire not to be identified
> with homemaking.  Maybe, though, there's a little of tossing the
> baby with the bathwater?
>
>
> David Strang.



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