Quote Originally Posted by Rye View Post
I think minor sewing is important to learn, small life skills! I learned that in middle school, which was good. But I think it should be taught in High School in a Life 101 class, along with business skills and money management and stuff. Veeeery important.
Very yes. I actually think that Home Ec. or a class like it should be a mandatory credit for highschool freshmen - I can't believe how inept some people are at these things. I actually thought sewing was a relatively common thing for people to know until about six months ago when a bunch of kids at my old highschool were amazed by me sewing in the halls at lunch > _ >. It was something really simple, too ... I think I was repairing my friends bag or something.

Then again that highschool was daft.

Oh oh ho! I agree with the foreign language thing (in Canadaland, French is mandatory until after grade 9), but I also think that Latin should be taught too. It really gave me a better grasp of grammar and etymology and a bunch of other linguistic crap (although you would never guess ;p)