The evolution of home economics programs
About a quarter of secondary school students take the elective class nationally, according to a 2004 study. Some think the course, now called Family and Consumer Sciences outside California, should be mandatory.
 POSTWAR: Students in a home ec lab at the University of Wisconsin in 1948. (University of Wisconsin) |
But not long after that, my school and so many others discontinued the classes. And when I talked to my former
