give it a rest will ya..any pratt can sew. apart from the usual lessons at my old school we did 5 years of farming on the self sufficient school farm livestock and crops ,sewing to the point of making cushions curtains ect.ie to a good enough standard. and cookery where we did half the year learning about proteins, fats, starchy foods and basic food chemistry and how it effects the body.. All the rest was the usual stuff most schools teach. And this was a comp school in Essex...

i do have to laugh when i hear how poorly equipped kids are now days to deal with the real world. sewing will be the least of your problems if we get an apocolyptic outcome.