Boys eager to get into the kitchen ELGIN — Not many years ago, what School District U46 then called “home economics” was offered almost exclusively to girls. Preparing to become stay-at-home housewives, they studied cooking and sewing while their male counterparts went to shop class and studied mechanical drawing. In what U46 now refers to as its “Family and Consumer Science” courses, girls still outnumber boys in the teaching ...
March 5, 2014 - The Courier News