Why isn't embroidery and sewing taught in school these days I wonder girls and boys?

Answer 1

I learned how to sew in school. I even learned to darn bedsocks. How uncanny.

I guess that people don't think there will be anymore ideal housewives, so they think it would be a waste of time and energy to teach kids things they need to know.

I bet that if they learned to sew, they would darn their bedsocks rather than just throw them away. They need to learn how to make their man or woman a dinner plate too.

I know someone who owes me a big steak and a potato.

Stay cool.

Answer 2

Um, sewing and cooking/foods classes ARE still offered by many schools, at least as elective classes. At the college level, sewing and design are taught *everywhere* in home and family studies programs. I took a sewing class in middle school and learned how to read patterns from my grandma. I own a sewing machine and used to sew quite a lot until school and otherwise working in order to pay for school began to occupy my attention.

Embroidery takes too long for me. It makes me impatient. It's one of those arts taken up by women who were expected to sit around in the house all day and night and do tedious things.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, because the youth of today don't have much interest in it. And, a lot of parents feel that things like computer skills and courses that prep for college are more important. But, it's not a complete loss! I was working at a fabric store to earn extra cash and there was a Junior High home ec class learning how to sew at school. The students would come in to the store and show us their project and ask for advice. Even the guys were really in to it. They loved picking out their own fabrics and figuring out the machinery. It was great!

Answer 4

The public education system has better things to spend money on than embroidery and sewing. These things can be taught at home if necessary.

Answer 5

They stopped teaching it becasue of the expense and becasue they wanted to focus more on acedemics. It's really a shame. I love to sew. I was fortunate to be able to take it in school. Now days, the young ladies would rather buy their clothes. I have been looking to someone to teach for years. No takers.

They don't teach wood or auto shop anymore either. What a mistake! Girls and boys should learn all they can about taking care of their cars.

Answer 6

It's taught in home economics along with cooking. It's half a semester of cooking and half a semester of sewing. Though the sewing they don't teach you anything with that aside from how to use a sewing machine(if your lucky) or use a thread and needle. I took home ecomics in 7th grade and food class in 9th for a while, and more food class/sweing class in 12th grade. Partly it has to do with lack of funding for these classes and most people don't have any intrest in cooking and sewing. Parents think that their kids should learn more college prepared classes then cooking and sewing.

Answer 7

I think that it depends on the school district.

In my public school, all the youngsters took a series of home economic classes that spanned several years (5th-8th grades).

We all learned cooking, basic automotive, sewing, child care, and a financial class.

All the kids learned the very basics of how to run their own household. In the sewing class, we learned hand sewing, how to use a basic machine and a surger (makes the seams like you see on sweat shirts) , how to sew by pattern, and how to either knit or embroider.

If they wished, they could sign up for further instruction as electives in high school- learning how to make patterns and designing clothing were very popular at my high school. The sewing shop was huge, and we also had vocational classes off site for people who wanted to do that for a living.

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I'm glad that I was taught, because I continued to be 'crafty' after the classes.

I take care of my own wardrobe maintenance, and make household things like quilts and curtains and slip covers.

It also saves me a lot of money to be able to make my own clothes or to purchase on consignment and tailor to fit.

Answer 8

Manual arts are regrettably no longer taught in public schools. There isn't enough money in school budgets for manual arts. Our public schools are a wasteland. I study them. Most high schools in the U.S. spend more money on their football programs than on their science departments. The bright side of that lack of manual arts education these days is I can make about $500 dollars an hour whenever I get the urge, and I do on occasion, by teaching groups of people how to twelve-shuttle tat! : )
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Answer 9

I wonder also why Home Ec. was dropped by the schools. Most people don't even know how to sew on a button anymore. If a seam rips, or a button pops off, they just throw away the piece, and buy a new one.

Answer 10

Because everything we buy nowadays is made in China, where labour is cheap, and quality is low.

Most people are too stupid to know what is involved in making handcrafted items anyway.

These are not exactly useful skills; classtime could be better utilized teaching this generation to read and write instead. You could do with some instruction in that area yourself - the function of punctuation, where and when to use it. Meet your friend, the COMMA. Crappy syntax too...you are confusing the object with the subject in your poorly structured interrogatory sentence (above).