Just what fucking class could such an atrocious assignment even have been for?
The teacher who came up with that idea needs to be sacked…
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Is Home Economics still a class? Back in the 80s in my district it was an elective for boys and mandatory for girls, with the shop classes being reversed. I think whoever set that standard in my district is maybe teaching in TX now.
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Not to my knowledge, it had been phased out in my district when I was a teenager 30 years ago.
Even so, teaching the codes of chivalry does NOT seem to be in line with that kind of course.
I actually took a class on Chaucer and ‘courtly love’ in undergrad as an elective, and even then, the admin new better than to come at us with any such nonsense “assignments.”
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Oh, definitely not an appropriate assignment for any course.
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Here, it wasn’t optional for anybody. At least for Grade 8, everybody took all of them: one term cooking, one term sewing, one term woodwork and one of shop.
Which, IMO isn’t a bad approach, either. Especially since when it comes to survival skills, home-ec is more needed than woodwork/metalwork which are basically now expensive hobbies.
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It’s been replaced by Family and Consumer Science. My wife has a BS in this and would hand you your head should you crack wise on it. DO NOT ask me how I know this!
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Just finished watching Coming 2 America, and then read your description of the assignment. Can I borrow your comment? It fits…
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It’s out?
Ugh…
(I’m going to have to watch it to see how bad it is, for myself.)
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Oh yeah. It was full of sexism and toxic masculinity, sprinkled with assault - and served with a side of McDowell’s. 
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How did they explain Hakeem having a son, when in the original movie he was never with anyone sexually while in America, including Lisa?
I’m just prepping myself for how bad the retcon is going to be…
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Help yourself. No copyright claimed! 
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You couldn’t though; seeing as how y’alls totally got ‘holy fucksocks’ from moi.
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I do believe you are correct. What’s the word? Yoink? I think that’s it. 
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Oh no. It’s not good?
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Ok, here are the deets on the son:
Akeem was date-raped by a woman who Semmi procured for him to keep him busy, because Semmi wanted to have sex with her friend. 30 years later, Semmi confesses, since Akeem remembered that night ending very differently. They repeatedly refer to the son as his bastard until nearly the end of the film, too.
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a large fraction of what was once called home economics along with shop and a variety of other technical and business oriented courses are all under the cte umbrella–career and technical education.
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The review I read said that they basically retconned in a one night stand/date-rape involving one of the women Hakeem met in the club scene:
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I went to check and it was (very loosely) described as a history-related assignment.
Next up, the girls get to pretend to get married and then hand over all their worldly possessions to the boys in the class and cease being legal entities! Isn’t history fun, ladies?
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This is why I didn’t try teaching. My version of home economics would’ve included having them pretend to change their names, calculate years of working fewer hours for less pay (only when the fake kids are old enough for school), determine the cost of getting divorced (and reentering the work force with less skills & experience), then role play not having enough money to retire or being disenfranchised because voter registration name differences have to be resolved with birth certificates and divorce decrees. Those kids would hate me.
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Their future boyfriends might’ve, but for several of the girls it would’ve been really eye opening!
I took home ec in Highschool and really liked it. IMO it was a great opportunity to learn the basic life skills of cooking and mending things, budgeting and so on. I would’ve loved your lessons as well 
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