just me: I did read the post, and it’s that exact phrase that I take issue with. I really don’t think that girls should be shteiging all day. I just think that it’s utterly ridiculous to call napkin-folding and egg-roll making “Toras Habayis,” and let them take precedence over actual Torah. It’s very nice and all, but if a school wants to implement such classes, they should be strictly extra-curricular and non-mandatory. As cinderella says, a cookbook is usually quite sufficient.
than leaning how to read a RaMBaM.
But then parents spend $20,000+ for their daughters to acquire that selfsame skill in seminary? Where’s the logic, I ask you?
I had such a class in high school, by the way. It was called Home Economics, and we learned how to make swans out of apples. Oh, and how to make homemade pizza on a pita. Biggest time-waster of LIFE. And that was instead of a Physics class that could have gotten be ahead in college.
What AZOI.IS says about classes in how to deal with real-life issues is much more valid, in my opinion. It makes a lot of sense to incorporate such classes into Bais Yaakov curricula. (I had one of those classes too, and I liked it a lot.)
P.S. I learned how to check vegetables in Halacha class. My friends in other schools did as well.