Originally Posted by AC1DD
Years ago shop classes did things like that. I know that even if you were taking wood or metal shop, at times the teacher would put a day or three aside and do general maintenance classes like how to maintain a car, small plumbing jobs (change cartridge on kitchen faucets, ect) or basic electrical (how to replace a light switch, or electrical outlet in the home) this was back in the late 1970s early 1980s. As an aside NO girls in those classes at all, never were, and you know what it was just fine that way. Just like Home Ec, no boys ever took those classes even though you could elect to if you wanted to.
I took "wood shop" and nope, never learned any of that stuff (in school).
FWIW, I and many other "boys" did in fact take "Home Ec" classes. Big reason was we got to cook food and eat it !! Pffftt, I also learned how to sew and other things. I can replace a loose button on my clothes to this day and am proud of it !! My wife just rolls her eyes when she says, "here, let me do it" and I remind her, "no, I took home ec in school".
Originally Posted by PimTac
Most likely auto shop but how many schools still have that?
My high school had our own "vocational" wing with auto repair, auto body, welding, carpentry, food service (they operated a restaurant, the Spartan Inn, in the school), and so on. It was a bigger city school though. None of the surrounding suburb schools had this - they sent those kids to a 'shared' vocational school. It was simply a numbers game in this case.
Now, as for this "auto repair" class, if you took that, that was your specialty. You had that class for a couple of hours a day and then went to the main building for math, English, etc. No one could take "auto repair" as an elective as a 45-minute/day class, for instance.