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| Does anyone else feel like home ec should be reintroduced into schools? As a 20-something I can say my parents did an ok job prepping me for the real world- I can cook, clean, sow and balance a checkbook. (I can container garden, bake, install drywall and can food for the winter too. :P ) I work for as a credit fraud investigator, and as a collection agent before that, and it amazes me how many people my age are completely clueless though. It's like they've had no guidance at all! I had a 26 year old ask me today, in all sincerity, what a credit report was. Some of my best friends from high school still live with their parents because they have no idea how to use money responsibly. My coworkers in their late 20's and early 30's can't feed themselves and their children without the help of McD's and hot pockets. The one thing they have in common- no one stopped to teach them life skills. Their parents didn't make it a priority and high schools don't offer classes like home ec anymore. How many of our problems could be solved with a three month class on how to operate a stove and keep a ledger?!
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| I think more time should be spent on basic finance in high schools. In the schools in this area there is a required class that touches on it . But i think more time should be spent on interest rates ,financial planing ect. But I don't think the schools can replace what should be tought in the home. As parents we need to step up, as it is our responsibilty to insure we teach our children how to be productive,contributing members of society. We need to be more then walking atm's for our kids. Reminds me of the old saying"Catch a fish for a child and feed him for a meal.Teach a child to fish and feed them for a lifetime."
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| Home Economics and Finance go hand in hand together if you stop and think about it. I am NOT saying either is more important but some of the questions I have fielded from younger "adults" just blow my mind. (same age as my boys) I had a good teacher in my mom, she was a stay at home mom, who cooked old fashion meals. Unfortunatly the kids growing up today do not have that advantage. When I went to school, Home Ec was a required course for the girls. But I have to say I learned more from mom than I did in class (had younger teachers) I on occasion use prepackaged meals (hamburger helper, pasta etc) but it is not a normal occurance. Unless you can pick the items up on sale the prices have gotten ridiculus (sp).. And with todays kids, they don't think about stocking up when they can get them on sale. If you ask them how to make a casserole like "cheeseburger Macaroni" they look at you like it is a foreign concept.. I have to say though, my eldest son was telling his wife about his moms cooking "she can even make her own hamburger helper." It seems like I did something right, my younger son whom is leaving next week for vo tech school, is taking the ingredients to make his own "hamburger helper" But with the times changing, it is a becoming a lost art. From what I have read here, most of us are trying in some small part to preserve that which is of old times. Which includes Home Ec and Finance..
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I feel Home-Ec should be back in school but with the condition of basic cooking taught no out of a box meals. My sister laughed when the teacher told the class they where making Mac and Cheese the next day and pulled out boxes of Kraft. Nothing was learned except how to measure the butter and milk to add to the cooked noodles. Oh yeah boil water. This was 1974. This same teacher couldn't figure out why we couldn't understand her teaching us to crochet. She was left handed and was trying to teach us backwards. This teacher retired my sr. year(1977) so the new one had boys in her cooking class and was teaching them to make banana bread my cousin Steve told her it was going to taste bland. She asked why and he said my grandma always uses rotten bananas. He was right no flavor and it made me wonder who taught her to cook. My kids have learned to cook the basics. When they want to try something new they call me. When my son was younger he told me he didn't want to cook I asked him if he planned on getting married right away. A diffident NO well I suggest you learn to cook. He is now a good cook. I wish they had a class on canning offered but at that time is when all the fast food was hitting the public and good old hamburger helper came out. It was my mothers new best friend. After 3 weeks of all the different kinds(they all taste pretty much the same)us kids where dieing for a plan burger or pork chops.
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| I think it would be great if they brought it back but there are virtualy no teachers who could put together a program. I don't think colleges even dropped the courses that would create an Home Economics Instructor. I was in the last courses at my High School in 78 & 79. They finally allowed the guys in those two years and it was great. Some of them could cook better than us girls and they rarely burnt anything. PLus if a machine was having trouble they could usually fix it. None of the guys complained but they sure got ribbed for it. THe school board had set this up so the students would intermingle more it was required for all students and girls had to take this as well as wood shop, auto body etc. We learned how to cook, keep a beautiful kitchen (there is a right & wrong way to wash dishes), do laundry, sew, garden and maintain a house/land, choose clothing and personal hygiene so you didn't look like a dumb hick. The guys came out of there looking really good. The girls didn't fair so well in the shop classes we were not allowed to touch the equipment at all. I should have sued. At that time they had a club call FHA - Future Homemakers of America. I wanted to join but my mom said I would have to drop other things so I let it go. Wish I had done it as I love everthing about being a "Homemaker." I love the feeling of being a successful steward of my home whether an apartment or house. It would be nice if kids today received a more realistic view of what it takes to move out on their own and have a place. To see what it takes to afford things without parental/grandma's help. Garden with the knowledge that you knew how to preserve the bounty etc. I do wish they would bring back Home Economics.
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Hello again I did belong to FHA in 10th grade I was chosen to go with the teacher to a special meeting at MSU. It was fun other then the teacher tried to kill us (the 11th grader and 12th grader) she STOPPED on I-75 You don't just stop on the express way. She said she was tired then let the 12th grade girl drive. I wish I would have joined FFA to to learn more about farming but back then as a farm girl I wanted to be more stylish and city girl acting. I guess I was lucky to grow up at an apple orchard with a big garden. My mother canned and froze everything. I learned to sew from my oldest sister when I was eleven. I can remember the first time in Home-Ec when the teacher was teaching sewing she was upset I had our first project done according to her way to fast. She brought in the other Home-Ec teacher to look over my top to look for flaws. She couldn't find any, then she FINALLY ask if I all ready new how to sew. I ended up with straight A's all through Home-Ec.
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| I think Home Ec should be brought back into high school, around here some kids are lucky enough to get into voc high school and can take culinary arts of fashion design (cooking & sewing) but the intent of Voc has changed dramaticly since I was in HS (graduated in 75) now a student can't get into voc until 11th grade and has to have better than a C average to be allowed to go. My kids can all cook from scratch and the son can make a mean chicken parmasean. He wants to be a chef but he's working on his GED so he can get into Voc College. He's one of those kids that would have benefited from Home Ec and might have stayed in school longer if he could have had access to Voc (he struggled in traditional classes he's a hands on learner) he got so frustrated that as soon as he was old enough he dropped out.
Lord keep you arm around my shoulder & your hand over my mouth If God brings you to it, He will see you through it 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'
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My sister who taught me to sew taught at the vo-tec school. She taught catering. She was always trying new foods in recipes. She raised 7 kids so her cooking was always for large groups. There was 6 of us kids growing up so any time she offered to cook mom was happy to except. She used to can all the time but with just 2 at home she quit. She is 8 years older then me so she was a great teacher. She made all her own prom dresses and a lot of dresses for me. My other sister was the tom boy so dresses were out. Only once she made a pizza that no one would eat, as we always said if my oldest brother wouldn't eat nothing would. She also makes cakes and made 2 of her daughters wedding cakes.
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