Our district still has home ec. My grand daughter took one semester in 7th grade and my grand son is taking this semester. They have cooking classes and sewing. In the sewing class they make a pillow that they sew buttons on and do some emboidery on. It seems to me that the projects are very easy and they should be doing something a little harder. The 8th grade class learns to make a scrub top, which I think is difficult to make if they haven't had any sewing experience. A couple of years ago a girl called me about 8:00 the night before hers had to be turned in and asked me to help her with the neck. She had no idea how to do it and neither did her mother. I gladly helped her and told her I would be glad to help her with her other projects. I wondered if they had had any glass room instruction on putting the neck band on.