Chuck
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We're going to hand this over to business and industry so they can tell us what they want us to teach so that we can basically train workers.
That was the point from that point on for school.
Train workers as much as you can.
And then eventually universities got in on the act and they're like, let's also make these like pipelines to colleges.
So like that's the point of high school is to get into college and we're going to charge them out the yin yang.
So standardization of testing.
was a huge part of it, but that was not the only part.
Like you kind of touched on earlier, Betty Friedan's feminist mystique, which kicked off the second wave of feminism, is very often cited as a huge chilling effect or having a huge chilling effect on home ec classes being taught in high school.
Isn't industrial arts the same as shop?
Is it different?
Oh, no, I think that's different.
I think shop is like drill presses and lathes and stuff like that.
My high school had that.
My middle school had shop class in Home Ec.
I don't remember.
I don't remember, but I saw it written somewhere as like automotive arts or something like that.
Yeah, somewhere.
That's funny.
Somebody said it, so I get to repeat it.