MRG
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- Apr 9, 2013
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I loved my junior high home economics classes. One year was sewing, another was cooking. In the sewing class I learned a lot of mending techniques that I still use. The cooking class included basic techniques and food safety that I still use.
Somewhere in those classes we also had a unit on fingernail care and how to sit like a lady. Nope, don't use any of those!
Another poster mentioned a shop teacher with missing fingers. When our sons were in middle school the shop teacher really did have a missing finger! But it wasn't a shop injury, every year he had to explain an unrelated accident.
When our sons were in high school one of them had a wonderful class teaching basic home maintenance and repair. This included drywall repair, basic electrical wiring, soldering, wall construction and plumbing. Our younger son soaked up every bit of that class and uses the skills all the time, enhanced now by YouTube.
Well..... it was 9th grade metal shop when Dannie almost took my pinky off with a hacksaw. He didn't take the bone so just a flesh wound, except the nerve was on fire for many years.
The teacher acted quickly to disinfect his hands and I think he was going to bandage it. I remember watching him washing his hands with Ajax, thinking how sanitary that was, and I woke up in the nurses office. [emoji15]