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Carol replies, aghast, “Why in the world do you want to take home ec.?”

But shop class and home ec also teach a broader range of skills.

“This would enable a food service manager or extension agent or home ec teacher to diagnose and correct food preparation errors,” she wrote.

“Dreilinger chronicles home ec’s decline beginning in the 1960s and its frantic efforts to reinvent itself,” Virginia Postrel writes in her review, fondly recalling her own time in a middle school home ec classroom.

A lot of the home ec curriculum becomes about personal growth.