Chuck

They're still around.

They've just taken such a massive hit.

And yet there's a lot of people who are like, OK.

I get why home ec, you know, took a massive hit.

It needed to regroup.

It's regrouped now.

And we're also seeing the fallout from what happens when you don't teach middle and high school kids basic life skills.

They grow up to be adults who don't know how to do basic life skills.

And that seems to be happening before our very eyes.

Exactly.

Or maybe even learn how to do basic taxes like a simple 1040 form.

Again, life stuff.

And in addition to finance stuff, they would learn things like, you know, how to tell if a chicken breast was underdone or maybe a few recipes to cook.

And if you don't teach people even basic stuff like how to cook, you can't really blame them for eating takeout constantly or eating nothing but prepackaged foods, right?

So some people say that this has led to the obesity epidemic that the United States is facing, at least in part.

It's probably a little full blown to say, yep, that's what happened.

We did away with home ec and now that's the problem.

The biggest problem is that's the food that's out there.

But some people are saying like, we're not, these people don't have any idea how to cook at all.

The parents didn't take up the slack when the home ec classes went away.