Disadvantages Of Home Economics

Likewise, high school does not teach students the critical life skills in which needed to use for the rest of their lives. For example, graduates are expected to know how to manage money, negotiate, and how to communicate effectively. However, the problem is they were never taught these direct skills. Instead, they had been taught how to memorize information that would be needed for a one time test. Additionally, when these graduates reach the workforce and are expected to

The main courses that we are taught throughout elementary and high school are English, Math, Science, and Social Studies. While those subjects are important, not everyone will use those studies throughout their lifetime, whereas if they taught subjects like balancing a checkbook, how to fill out job applications and write a resume, how to do an interview, first aid, and so many other skills, everyone would carry that with them and find that information useful after they get out of high school.

Obesity has been a huge epidemic for a while now, more than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of adults are overweight or obese. In the article “Food for Thought”, written by Jennifer Grossman, projects that by bringing back home economics class will be a good result to fight off obesity. Grossman proposes that young adults who take home economics class will have a better perspective of what kind of food they should eat and not eat. She believes that it will educate young adults to “think, make, fix, and generally fend for themselves.”. I agree with Grossman’s point about how home economics class is a good way to fight and make our youth aware of obesity. I feel that Society needs to be educated of the types of food, the amount, and the effects of food they are consuming not just children. Grossman’s article is approaching children, opposing her approach I strongly feel it’s necessary to educate the parents since children are generally not paying nor are they preparing for the food they consume, as well as educating the children how to maintain a physical balance to burn off what they eat.

For instance, when it comes to mathematics, teachers prefer to teach students the steps to a problem rather than to find the theory behind it- explaining why a specific formula may be used. Teachers are negligent and decide to take the “easy way out” and instruct students to use a method and solve it with the given steps. Similarly, English classes are taught in the same manner as Mathematics. Typically, students are enforced to read and learn how to use proper grammar- identifying where to insert commas, quotations, capitalizations, etc. With the education students receive in this school students, they will not have the sufficient knowledge to obtain a desirable job in the future. The students from the working-class will only have the capacity to achieve blue-collar employment because they were trained like robots to become an employee rather than become somebody’s head employer.

There are many life issues and affairs people have to adapt too while maturing and growing up. These could include: learning about what kind of person they aspire to be, where they have the desire to live, or what it's like to pay bills. Yet, when and where does one learn to digest all this information? Certainly not in the American education system. Research suggests that Leon Botstein's claim- rules of high school are not the rules of life and that schools need to bring more real world into them- is true and that the American educational system needs to be revised and refined.

In the essay titled “the Diminishing returns of a College Education,” by Kathleen Parker, Parker contends that in the grand scheme of things students who attend college are not getting the full benefits of the college education they are paying for, that the lack of academic rigor is detrimental to students when they try to enter the workforce. She contends that the a study done by the National assessment of Adult Literacy found though students in the united states pay the most tuition per person; they tend to lack basic learning skills such as basic math and critical thinking. In this day and age the discussion

Mari-Jane Williams (2013) beautifully articulated the importance of teaching life skills to teenagers in an article written for the Washington Post titled “Life skills all teens should have before graduating from high school.” In the article Williams writes:

If they do not have these skills the students will not be well rounded which would not give them the opportunity to figure out what it is that they want to do after graduating high school, and whether they end up having the skill and not going to college or vice versa, at least the student will end up knowing how to do things without having to rely on someone else to help them with the problems they overcome. Therefore, schools should realize that not all students won't be going to college, and for the ones who are not going it would not be fair to those who are not taking that path. They need to consider that not everyone goes to college and instead of making them take classes that has nothing to do with their lives after high school, have them consider taking classes that might involve with what they are planning to do and offer more shop classes to students, so that students they can have the basic skills whether they decide to go to college or not. In order for this problem to be fixed, parents should work together to have more classes like this be put into their child's school so that their kid can be on the right

As a high school student, I am dismayed to say that I believe much of my time has been wasted fulfilling the demands of classes that were not valuable to me. I believe it would be smart to acknowledge that students may sometimes have preexisting knowledge that is adequate for a subject and that they should be allowed to “Test Out.” All schools have required classes that any student who want to graduate must pass. I have spent countless hours filling out papers and doing busy work, all of that being time that I could’ve used to pursue my personal interests or god forbid, get some sleep. I understand that this is not the usual case but I think many of my classmates would agree that they have experienced at least one class in which they didn’t learn enough to justify an entire semester or year of sitting in a desk.

I think that part of this problem is that students go to school because it is what you are supposed to do when you graduate high school. Very few high school graduates attend college because they want to get an education and know what they

There are the students who decide not to go to college and start a career instead. They enter true adult life right out of high school. Life for those students is not getting any better. From 1987 to 2007, average lifetime income for a high school graduate dropped by 20 percent while the average lifetime income for college graduates has raised by one percent (Davies). The value of a high school diploma is dropping. The knowledge gained in high school is not enough for a good paying job. For those looking to go on to a higher education are also unprepared. They are paying large amounts of money for college to learn what they should already know. This problem with young adults can be traced back to school before high school.

Another way to better prepare high school students for their future is changing the way they are taught. Right now, students are being taught by a teacher standing in front of a classroom, telling them what they should know. This system of teaching is a major problem because it doesn’t cater to the students. Teachers prepare what they are going to teach in class every day and usually it takes the whole class period. That leaves little room for students to ask questions they have on the material. If they do have questions they need answered, they have three options, stay after class, ask a friend, or email they teacher. Usually, students don’t have time to stay after class, friends won’t know the answer either, and teachers don’t have time to answer the email in time. This leaves the student not knowing the material and not taking in the information they need to.

After one graduates from high school, they are thrown in to adult life. Adult life is scary, uncharted territory for most young adults. When we are thrown straight in to life without the proper life skills to conquer it, life can quickly become overwhelmingly stressful. In a 2014 study conducted of recent high school graduates, 83% of students reported some gaps in their education when asked how their high school education prepared them for life and, or, college. (Kirst) If high school students are leaving high school without skills such as basic communication, financial literacy, and social skills, we are breeding a generation of young adults who cannot properly care for themselves.

In order to be successful in life students should be taught in high school topics concerning health care, personal finance, learning from failure, credit cards, relationships, finding a job, self defense, and many more, but these should be some of the top ones. Students should at least have an idea of how to do each and one of these topics. Some students don’t have that family support to teach them how to do any of these things, when other students may have all the support. During this time students should be motivated to move on and prepare for adult hood, instead they are brought down with information that will not be useful. For instance, history, yes its nice to know about American history, but when are we really going to put it to use? One reason would be if we were planning on having a career in history. School should be fun and interesting, where students can learn

The majority of high schools in America offer some sort of “Home Economics” course as an optional elective class, and although these classes may be very beneficial to the students’ adult development, there are still no reported cases of a mandatory, fully in-depth Home-Living course that is required for all students attending a high school. Some might ask why the course is Home-Living instead of Home Economics, and the answer to that is because the Home-Living course will exclude the previously covered information in the mandatory Financial Literacy course in order to focus strictly on the skills that are required to prosper in a healthy life. The priorities of the course should be proper education on nutrition and cooking, appliance operation, and shelter maintenance. Further explanation on nutrition and cooking should be emphasized in order to bring complete awareness of the harmful effects of obesity among young adults to ensure safe, healthy eating (qrcodestickers.org). Physical appliance operation should also be available in each Home-Living course in order to allow students to directly learn how to properly use potentially dangerous equipment such as an oven and stove, clothing iron, or sewing machine. Lessons on shelter maintenance will also influence safety for