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Method of Madness:
It's called Home Economics on this side of the pond, or at least it was.

Lila:
They call it Family and Consumer Science now (at least in Massachusetts)

There was this one day when I was in like fourth or fifth grade that was really cold in the morning when I walked to school, but by the time we went out for recess it was warm enough that I didn't need my coat when I was running around chasing things. So, naturally, some teacher who didn't know me told me to put on a coat. I told her that I wasn't cold and thanked her for worrying about me and ran off.
She chased after me with my coat and told me that I'd get a cold if I didn't put on my coat.
I was kind of a snotty and over-educated elementary school-er, so I informed her that being cold doesn't give you colds, germs give you colds, and people get colds when it's cold out because they're inside with other people and it's more likely that they'll get sick.
She made me put on my coat anyway.
So I wore the hood but nothing else and when I ran around it flew behind me like a cape. I felt like an anarchist rebel, she gave me the stink-eye, but she couldn't do anything to me because I actually was wearing my coat.

öde:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 12 Jun 2011, 12:23 ---I'm particularly impressed that there's a requirement to teach knowledge of the home and of society, because I'm not convinced we're actually taught that in schools here!

--- End quote ---

I had Physical Health and Social Education (PHSE) in school. I don't actually remember much from it, but we were taught a bit about condoms and STDs, and some discussion about society and philosophy and stuff (as much as 11-14 year old boys can manage). Although it had one of my favourite teachers, I hardly remember anything from it.

Method of Madness:
I remember learning a lot about drugs in middle school health, but what I remember most about high school health was a video my senior year of kids our age giving birth...complete with close-up of the final moment.  Not a fun thing to view.

Skewbrow:
I think that somebody here just more or less translated "home economics" to Finnish, for that's what it was called (30 some years ago, when I had the pleasure of attending such a class). I love the term "Domestic science", though.

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