Texas schools stopped Home Ec and replaced it with some sort of life experience....checking accounting management, caring for a baby, getting a loan, etc. no sewing, quilting, cooking....we used to have half a year of sewing and half a year in cooking. The sewing was pretty intense by the time I got to high school. Had to make a wool structured jacket; steaming and block the wool, adding hand stitched bias interfacings, welted pockets, pleat..or yeah, had to fit perfectly. The teacher made me nervous due to her being a perfectionist, but I am glad she was, I learned a lot and subsequently made clothes that didn't look homemade.