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5 Classes You Took That Your Kids Won’t

Memories of Typing and Home Ec are far, far away when we consider the Facebooking, Tweeting teens of the today and beyond. Here are classes that you sat through and your kids won't take.

By Alison Caporimo
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Typing

You recall days of plugging “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” into a typewriter again and again. Nowadays, kids' fingers get enough flexing from texting.

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Home Economics

You daughter (or, son) won’t be donning an apron during the school day anytime school. Cooking, cleaning, hygiene, and other family-oriented classes have become extinct, but some parents are fighting to revive them. Their argument? That teaching kids how to cook could help battle obesity in America.

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Cursive

Some schools have shunned cursive classes all together, but there are still a few that will teach it (with fewer lessons) in third grade. In the past, most kids would continue to study penmanship until the fifth or sixth grades.

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Latin

Popular in classrooms during the 60s and 70s, Latin veni, vidi, vici-ed into the curriculum and then disappeared all together.

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Shop Class

Can you imagine the waiver parents would have to sign today if their children were working with saws and hammers? It would never happen.

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Your Comments

  • Kris

    I teach in a school with home ec and shop. They are just called family and consumer sciences and industrial arts. Same thing.