text:  But those courses started falling by the wayside, in part because it was considered too retrograde and unfeminist to teach kids, especially girls, how to cook and clean. And also in part because public school curriculum started to revolve more and more around standardized testing and college readiness. Like the focus now is to make kids ready for college, not for life. And in part because the schools needed to make room in the day to teach about LGBT pride and CRT and other forms of insidious nonsense.