Is it Junior High or Middle School?

Junior high or middle school as they call it now was just a fog for me. I seemed to sleep through the seventh, eighth, and ninth grade. I’d rather had swept the city streets with a Wisk broom back then. However, the redeeming thing about junior high was the various shop classes. Wood shop, metal shop, electric shop, and others. I think my learning would have been greatly enhanced by more shop and possible HomeEc as well. Sure, learning how to cook and darn socks. Girls also would have benefited taking shop. Don’t remember anything about math, English, or science. However, the after-school movie club was enjoyable. “Creature from the Black Lagoon, Forbidden Planet, and some John Wayne and Roy Rogers movies.
But back to JH, both girls and boys would have gained good skills if pursuing shop and HomeEc. Learning how to open a checking or savings account write checks and pay bills would have been more practical. Painting walls and repairing small kitchen appliances would have been a good curriculum as well. Possibly even learning how to change a flat tire.
If I were to create a curriculum for middle schoolers, it would start with more hands-on brainless stuff and less academics. JH would also include physical education and team sports every day. Save the academics for high school.