(Aftershow) The Pockets Video
Sabrina unpacks pockets, Melissa rekindles her craft era, Taha unveils the one purchase he’s ever made—a jacket made of rugs.
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Wanna chime in too about practical skills courses. I was in high school in Montreal, Canada, around 1992-1997 (yeah, I am the outlier in your demographics). I had almost the same as Taha's, i.e. one course where you would cook, sew and make a family budget ("économie familiale"), and one where you would do woodworking and basic electronics soldering ("initiation à la technologie").
i would like to personally rob taha of that jacket…
The reason that schools in the US do not have those courses is because academics are focused on STEM education.
Popping in to say that my school in the US has the exact same 4 units of "practical skills" as Taha's. We called them Technology Education (Tech Ed) and Family & Consumer Science (FACS) and had them for a semester each in 7th & 8th grade.