I taught Home Economics for a number of years in the early sixties and felt very strongly that girls and boys need to have some of these life skills. Life doesn't stop if you cannot sew on a button, mend a seam, do laundry properly or prepare food. Knowing how to do will save lots of money and frustration if you can do them. Our current manufacturing climate gives us lots of poor products, foods and chemicals of all kinds in everything we use. Most of all, it dumbs us down and we harm ourselves by our ignorance of what is good for us. I am sure that Home Economics should be modernized to fit today's life-but students need accurate information.