Should High Schools offer Home Ec and Shop classes to Junior/Senior students

I have new additional points I will like to add against Home Ec and Woodshop being offered for juniors and seniors in highschool. Point 1: There is a severe lack of interest in Home Ec and Woodshop. Today's generation is more interested in technology than cooking, which to many people is more of a chore rather than a hobby. In today's fast-paced society, many people don't have enough time to cook food or fix things. According to Rasmussen Reports, 58% of Americans eat fast food at least once a week, implying a decreasing trend of home cooking. Also, many young Americans are losing interest in DIY projects because they feel it's too much work. Due to a combined lack of interest in cooking and DIY, there's little interest in technology-oriented high schoolers, (90% of adolescents use computers ), to take Home Ec and Woodshop. Point 2: Ready made food, fast food, the internet, and ready made clothes, have decreased the importance of Home Ec and Woodshop. The advent of ready-made food has decreased the need to know how to cook. The closest many people have gotten to truly cooking, is putting their ready made food in the microwave. According to United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, food consumption outside of the home has increased by 17.2% from 1970 to 2012. Similar issue with ready made clothes. It decreases the necessity of people to know how to sew. And if you do rip your clothes, you can simply go to the store and buy new clothes for a cheap price, in a society where annual wages are increasing. As I previously stated in Round 2, the internet decreases the importance of Home Ec and Woodshop classes. Pro stated, "And the argument that you didn't learn how to measure in Home Ec since they gave it to you step by step, again, you didn't take the opportunity to expand on that and learn from it...you just took the steps and did what you had to do to pass." This provides another reason as to why Home Ec and Woodshop is ineffective in gaining knowledge. Point 3: More students care more about getting a good grade than learning. Do you think people will remember from class, how to sew or make things out wood many years after taking the course? I think not. The grading system has effectively eliminated the student's desire to learn new skills, for the sake of going to a better college (by getting a good GPA), instead of exploring and expanding upon that skill. This is especially true for juniors and seniors, who are preparing to go to college. Pro stated, "Should they be denied that opportunity to learn those skills just because someone doesn't think they are necessary?" Point 1 answers this question. To clarify, that doesn't mean I hate the idea of Home Ec and Woodshop, but that it's simply obsolete in today's society, teaching skills that isn't truly learned in the classroom. Think about it, when you cook food, do you knowingly utilize all the skills you learned from Home Ec? Overall, this issue about my generation's lack of basic skills like cooking, won't be solved by taking classes. The only way I can currently think of to solve this predicament, is for the government and other organizations to continue advocating against eating out, drinking soda, and other bad things people do frequently. Overall Points supporting Con: Not useful in a technologically-oriented society Lack of interest in Home Ec and Woodshop classes among students (Ex: people love computers, just not building it) We won't gain much knowledge from these classes (Students care more about grades than knowledge. Knowledge you learn in these classes aren't really applied anywhere else in other classes, whereas Math and Computer Science is) Knowledge you learn in these classes are irrelevant in the Job Market (which is one of the main reasons of going to school) Woodshop knowledge can't really be applied much in daily life (machinery you use in Woodshop is extremely pricey) Internet (I can easily search up how to cook, sew, and how to build ________) Obsolete class. Lack of interest in STEM has caused many schools to focus more on science and tech classes, rather than Home Ec and Woodshop. STEM courses are very important for the US to grow economically and technologically. Fast/Ready to Eat foods have decreased the importance of knowing how to cook. Ready made clothes have decreased the importance of knowing how to sew. Can be bought at a cheap price as well. Thank you for this interesting debate. Sources: http://www.rasmussenreports.com... http://www.popularmechanics.com... http://www.ers.usda.gov... https://nces.ed.gov...