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Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:26:05 JST Ethan Schoonover
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@bhawthorne @chargrille Yeah agree. I've actually taught some of these (some of the home repair stuff and spreadsheets) as part of other classes to middle schoolers and I think that's the better age.

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  Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:26:05 JST Erin Conroy
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  Our home ec & shop classes were first taught to us in middle school. I'm not sure if high school taught them at all. I don't remember, but I don't think so.
  Saluting you, Brian! They actually wouldn't let me take shop unless I also took home ec. That was their "compromise."
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  Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:33:01 JST Ethan Schoonover
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  @chargrille @bhawthorne junior high for me in Wisconsin in the 80s. All students took both home-ec and woodshop.
  
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  Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:33:01 JST Erin Conroy
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  I was in WA. Wisconsin was more progressive back then on women's liberation and many other areas of governance & public life. The Wisconsin idea!
  https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/wisconsin-used-to-be-progressive-dan-kaufman-on-what-happened.html
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  1. The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV: The Progressive Era, 1893-1914 (Volume 4) Hardcover - Illustrated, December 18, 1998 by John D. Buenker Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy." The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union. As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society- what came to be known as "the Wisconsin Idea"
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  Erin Conroy (chargrille@progressives.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:46:50 JST Erin Conroy
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  The Universe bless our hippie parents (and their friends). I did a bunch of organizing/activism in Portland during the Trump regime and they were still reliable volunteers for progressive (and therefore Democratic) activism & canvassing.
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  Ethan Schoonover (ethanschoonover@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Jul-2023 06:46:51 JST Ethan Schoonover
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  @chargrille @bhawthorne It's always amazing to me how blue Wisconsin was when I was kid vs now (am in WA now). Unions, progressive policies. All feels very much washed away. My hippie WI parents are still out there canvasing for progressive causes though.
  
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