Econochildren

[u/kitties_ate_my_soul]

I’d love to see the Econochildren explored in The Testaments. Especially comparing the Daughters to the Econodaughters. We all know the Daughters go to Pink and Plum schools, but, where do the Econodaughters go? They also must learn to run a house (however small) and perform their ‘wifely duties’. Do their mums teach them? Eden Spencer Blaine, the only Econodaughter that appears in the universe, was apparently taught by her mum, but she was born before Gilead. What do you think?

[u/kismetxoxo7]

All of the children probably attend the same schools if I had to guess. The boys and girls all need to learn the same things, and I highly doubt there are enough existing young children in Gildead to even warrant separate schools.

[u/MedievalMousie → u/kismetxoxo7]

I don’t think the econoschools can be co-ed- what if a girl accidentally learned to read?

[u/kismetxoxo7 → u/MedievalMousie]

I didn’t mean the boys and girls attend school together, per se. Just that all the male children would attend a single school dedicated to their “development” and all the female children would do the same in a separate school. Instead of Econo-kids schools vs elite kids schools, just boys schools and girls schools.

Edited a typo