Originally Posted by Leota
Originally Posted by prm
As a retired Home Ec. (now called Family and Consumer Science FACS) teacher I wish all of the respondents to this question could contact their state education departments to stop eliminating Home Ec. from the middle and high schools and return to foods and sewing classes. My state , Pennsylvania says sewing is a craft and not a life skill and has removed it from the middle school curriculum.
PRM
nutrition is NOT a life skill?????? Cooking isn't a Life skill???? Oh and sewing doesn't use any Math or Higher level thinking skills and cooking doesn't use science knowledge.....WHATEVER... those ppl in our gov. can't even sew on a button or boil water! Put them on an island with nothing but a basic clothes no food... let them figure out how to survive...
HomeEc provides the knowledge of survival with minimal materials.
I am a Family and Consumer Science teacher (formerly Home Ec - I have a degree in Home Ec)...there are a lot less jobs for people like us...the students have to take remedial reading and math except electives...This has a lot to do with No Child Left Behind...go figure