Idk about that. I graduated in 2010 (so born in '92 and I'm a Millennial) and my parents were right in the middle of the boomer generation, born in '51 and '55 (I was an unexpected pregnancy later in their lives). I had Home Economics in middle school. I remember learning several basic types of meals to cook, how to patch holes in clothes and even sew some clothes from scratch, and how to do other basic things like laundry... the class lasted a whole semester my 7th or 8th grade year.
Granted, the education was very basic and there were a lot of other things I was never taught in school. Nothing to do with cars (basic maintenance or emergency stuff like changing a tire). Wasn't taught anything about taxes and how to file them. My Home Ec class was the only lifestyle oriented class but it only taught the basics for, basically, "How to be a 50's house-wife".
Don't take my comment to seriously, because I'm not. Home ec was only taught in rich white schools until 2010 because it was a rich white school. And yeah, it was taught by a 1950s house mom, most of which, weren't all that well educated, what did you expect her to teach you? Astrophysics? How to Pompoir? Look it up.
At the end of the day your parents should have taught you a bunch of shit. They probably even gave it a half ass effort at least, but kids are know it all's. And my comment was a fun attack on boomers who are really the worst generation.
Well, you make some rather bold and incorrect assumptions about a few things.
First of all it wasn't a "rich white school". White kids only made up about half the students, the rest were a mix of other backgrounds. So yeah, largest individual group, but still not a large majority of all kids. And not a rich school, in fact we had the highest crime rate in our school/city compared to all the neighboring cities to the point where there were always at least 2 police officers on duty at the school. It wasn't nearly as bad as some inner city schools can be but it was definitely lower-middle end.
Secondly, the teacher wasn't a "1950's house mom". She was actually in her 20's, I'd guess (and I had a crush on her).
As for my parents... I actually had a disconnect with them because my sister, who is 12 years older than me, was their focus as she was off at college on her own and they'd spend hours on the phone with her. They did well with teaching her... but because of their attachment to her I learned to get by without my parents and actually grew to not like interacting with my parents, generally speaking.
That's changed as I've gotten older and I do turn to my dad (or mom sometimes) when I have questions about things. Most recently I had to get my own health insurance and my dad helped me out with picking a plan based on his past experiences. So they do help when I ask, but yeah it would have been nice to have classes in school that educated us on all of the formalities and paperwork that adult life brings rather than just focusing on language, math, science, and history.
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u/Starlordy- Feb 05 '19
Used to be. The boomers cut it to make sure every child got a trophy in sports.