Chuck

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.

But one of the biggest problems that family and consumer science classes still have that started around this time is finding qualified teachers to actually teach the family and consumer science classes that are still around in the U.S.

Yeah.

And apparently the like enrollment rates are very difficult to find.

Livia helped us with this and she dug up a 2013 report that said about three and a half million high school kids took family and consumer science classes in the 2011 to 2012 school year.

And that still sounds kind of impressive to me.

That was a 40 percent drop from just the decade earlier, the aughts, the 2000s.

And that they were still pretty much divided among gender lines, 65 percent girls and 35 percent boys.

They're still out there.