I elected to take Cooking I think it was in grade 9. I'm pretty sure it was because I liked my chances of meeting girls in that class over Wood Shop. I lucked out and got into a group with a girl I liked but had to put up with her pain-in-the-ass best friend too. I learned enough to enable me to get around in the kitchen without starting any major fires.

Unlike oscar's experience, the teacher was a coyly sexy, youngish, English woman who made sure the two males in the class enjoyed the experience, in hopes of encouraging integration. She wasn't quite as smokingly hot as the French teacher but close, in a buttoned down sort of way.

My father signed up for home-ec in the '30s when he learned that students got to eat all that they cooked.

He was the only boy in Greenwich who valued nutrition over image.

I took this in grade 11 because my girlfriend at the beginning of the year was in it. I learned how to make a cake, and I learned how to respond to fellatio. Two different teachers though.

A stupid and useless course in my experience, taught by some of the most miserable women I've ever met.The exclusive province of evil, miserable, frigid, man hating, sex outlawing, middle aged, thoroughly unattractive shrill women with WC Fields noses and frizzy, graying buns, who thought that making males make Toll House cookies and sew and other emasculating things would somehow make the memory of the one mediocre lay they had had back in 1970 better.

Called "Bachelor Living" in my ancient high school days. The boys demanded the class as "Home Ec." remained ladies only. We expected segregation of the sexes.

Cookies and pizza baking with a solid intro to sewing on buttons.

Today, they mix the sexes in "Domestic Engineering" or "Life Skills" classes. "Sim" marriages, mortgage payments, rubber babies that cry, pizza, cookies, and button sewing.

Mandatory "A."

I didn't really care for home economics. Once we had to sew a stuffed animal but my mom ended up sewing it for me. On another note, I don't think I'd trust anything out of my middle school kitchen. Those kids in the picture look like they're having a good time though.

you can learn this stuff from your parents

I loved this class primarily because we got to be creative, also because I think it's just one big social experiment anyway!!!!

Can be useful but isn't for me when I could learn most of that stuff on my own.

love to cook

idc

i love cookin desertz then eatin them...plus had sum good memories =)

It isn't too bad..

Major waste of time and the teacher I had was a pain in the ass.

:D

Lame

i dont find intreasting at all

Did anyone ever learn anything in Home Ec that that actually used after leaving the classroom? I doubt it.

I like to cook pure and simple

Non-existant. Kinda wish I'd had it

Never took it but lots of people I know did. Is this still offered?

it was okay in junior high school had cooking and sewing. i was awful at sewing. remember the nine week long project i had to sew a jumpsuit was a disaster by the time i was finished I had a growth spirt and it did not fit.   in high school I did not take it. by high school it was considered a real nerdy class{ even though I was a kind of a nerd} and you would have been tortured if you took home ec in high school. by the time my kids got to high school there was no home ec. oh well. an okay experience.I did learn some tips about cooking way back then so thanks Ms. Strom way back in the 70s.

These classes were a little sexist in the seventies but were kind of fun. We did mock marriages and stuff. Pretty funny.

An easy A,we had a cool teacher the first part of the semester we baked which was fun,but the second half we stiched,which was not fun for me.but we learned how to sew on a button which to this day I can't do.

I took wood shop instead. Sorry.

I always enjoyed cooking in home economics, but to be quite honest, I learned mostly from my mother.

All I remember is fear and incompetence.

Really just a waste of time. You can learn this stuff at home, take a more useful class while you are in school.

I took this course to kill time, honestly. I already knew how to cook. The great thing is, lunch was just before this class, so we got to make lunch.

In the 7th grade we made the best pumpkin pie I'd ever had. Anybody remember the flattened pillsbury pop muffin dough mini-pizzas?

Great class to meet girls.

Home economics was no longer a required course when I went to school. I never did take it, but I seem to recall the linger smell of burnt cookies in the hallways. I am not sure what the basic course description is now, there seems to be a lot of interest in younger people to learn cooking skills. Perhaps if along with the cooking and sewing, they had a segment on how to balance a checkbook, financing a car, reading the stock market and a few other basics of day-to-day economics, I might have taken it.

I dont think it should be essential. The topics could easily be covered in Sociology.

Home economics is important for life. Its better than the other subjects where 2 years later you forget it all.

On a practical note, this subject would be a 4 (good to learn but not essential). Personally, this subject was OK. It all depended on the teacher. This subject was a very deceptive subject. When I first thought of home ec, I thought we'd be cooking and eating all of the time. That was far from the truth. 90% of the time, we were doing theory and only 10% of the time did we cook. I had a bit of a strict teacher too which didn't help! Plus you also learn about sowing. The only good thing about that subject was eating your practical assignments!

I took a lot of grief for taking it in high school, but it was worth it. The class was very fun, a easy way to earn credit, and I learned how much I loved cooking in this class. Best elective ever!

Do schools even teach home economics any more? I took it in junior high school about ten years ago and I liked it. All you had to do to pass was show up and at least attempt to do the assigments. (I won't bother mentioning my little cooking fiasco here.)

Cooking classes are really fun! And they are an easy credit!

I still have the shorts I made in 10th grade.

I thought Home ec was fun. I loved the cooking, budgeting, and childcare units, but I didn't like the sewing and crafts units.

Home Economics where I am is made up of cooking, sewing, and Sex-Ed. Sex Ed is the greatest thing ever, and cooking is fun. Lost credit for horrible sewing. Still good.

Ah, learning to sew and cook. I'm still not exceptionally good at either, but at least I've gotten the basics down from those classes.