Originally Posted by dixiechunk
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.
Pip pip and hurray!!! I concur whole-heartedly!
Sorry, I have to be the lone dissenter here. Sewing, although we all enjoy it, does not qualify any more as a life skill. Perhaps when folks had to make their own clothes it did, but it is no longer necessary to make your own clothes. Nutrition is still considered as a life skill and is, at least in Michigan, still taught but not as a separate class. It is incorporated into the science curriculum. Cooking is a life skill but it really does not belong as part of the school's responsibility in my humble opinion. Teaching kids how to prepare meals should be a parental responsibility. I really feel that too much that should be the parents' job is pushed off on the schools. Cooking as a trade (i.e. restaurant cooking or catering) is still taught at the high school level, at least it is around me.