Chuck

The art of changing oil.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But no, I knew a couple of kids who were like, I'm going to be a mechanic.

That's what I want to do after school.

I'm not going to go to college.

So it's great I'm getting this education starting now in high school.

Like it would give them a huge leg up to either becoming apprentices or going and taking like classes at a technical trade school, right?

That went away quickly.

vocational education just really took a huge hit.

And again, high school became a pipeline for college.

Home Ec still kind of stayed around.

It saw the writing on the wall, but it rebranded itself as Family and Consumer Sciences.

I think because Home Ec just had such a

folksy, old-timey name that seemed to reinforce gendered stereotypes.

Family and Consumer Sciences is new.

It's fresh.

It's 90s, right?

And they had a bigger emphasis on careers, helping people start careers outside the home, like interior design, nutrition, elder care, culinary arts, like you could become a chef or get a huge leg up, taking high school classes about that.

So that's still around today.