Re: Re: Old School
By: Grease to Dux on Fri Jan 03 2025 11:07 am
> Some of what was said earlier is true. I graduated high school back in '81.
> We had building construction, Ag shop, regular shop, drafting, beauty, and
> computer class. Also home ec and automotive. We had to program in Pascal and
> type them on a punched card and run it though a reader.
> I taught in small East Texas schools in the late 90's early 2000's and you
> still had ag shop, home ec, automotive and computer class. They all were
> watered down from what we did in the 80's. Computer class was mostly excel
> and word.
> I was a history, econ and gov't teacher and in my econ class, I had a guy
> from a car dealership and a realtor come in and spoke to the seniors
> about buying a car and a house. We also did a checkbook exercise to learn how
> to open an account and keep up with finances. This was nnot in the TEKS at
> the time. I don't know it is now. I haven't been in a classroom in 15 or
haha i did not get that experience.
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