Was talking about home economics as a school subject in another thread and i realised that for me personally, taking “Food Tech” (cookery gcse) would have impacted me pretty negatively, even though generally speaking GCSEs don’t have much of an effect on the rest of your life or education.
So i wonder if anyone else has similar revelations? My post title is also phrased more openly than that, so it doesn’t have to be school specific, but i am mainly interested in things from the teenage time period.
Another choice i made in HS, for instance: i remember being really glad to have a medium-size group of friends in high school, but in retrospect they were terrible people and i realise that there would have been huge benefits to spending more time alone and in the library - yes, i genuinely look back and wish i studied more, lol. Something which I'm always told never happens.
This one “affects me as an adult” because i ended up entering adulthood with several friends determined to force their personality to be cool, relying on manosphere influencers to determine how they should behave; a lot of these people i didn’t want to know in the first place.
I’m curious how a cooking class would have affected you negatively.
Because we only get a set of 11 GCSEs we can take (+ in my school some people get “further maths” as a bonus one for being higher maths class, or can take their native language as a gcse), taking food tech would have left me with less knowledge basically, and less options of other things to take. Every subject i took feels like it was worthwhile. Food tech doesn’t seem to provide value added e.g helping you get work in kitchens.