An Idea for Secondary Education

If a home-economics course entitled "Hail to the Chef" or some similar phrasing that might appeal to masculine students, were offered at the high school level, enrollment by male youths in home economics courses might increase dramatically.

And that, in turn, would help young men to save many thousands of dollars throughout their adult lives by providing them with basic home-economics skills.

Those home-economics skills would be of practical benefit to virtually any male student, particularly since the average per-capita total number of years in which American men are single and unmarried or divorced or widowed, appears to have risen significantly in the last few decades.

Among the skills that a home-economics class could teach male youths are:
---how to mend clothing after it becomes torn;
---how to keep one's residence as neat and hygienic as possible;
---how to develop and pursue a well-balanced dietary lifestyle guided by a strong sense of nutrition;
---how to practice preventive medicine through one's lifestyle at home;
---suggested techniques for washing clothes and ironing clothes;
---bookkeeping strategies;
---how to participate comprehensively in natural-resource recycling.