Chuck
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, somewhere.
Somebody said it, so I get to repeat it.
The art of changing oil.
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.