Essay on Students Should Be Taught Home Economics

In the 1950’s, women were working and being transformed into the American housewife, while their husbands went off to corporate careers. In Ingalls and Johnson, women were said to have careers however, could only succeed at “motherhood substitute jobs” such as teaching, nursing, administrative assistive, and social work (I&J, 51). This culture portrayed woman as only being capable of household jobs. When looking for the perfect suburban home, General Electric said women would head straight for the kitchen because this was where she would be spending most of her time. General Electric’s Wonder Kitchen made it even easier for women to save time, space, and work, allowing for wives to have more leisure time. The Chase & Sanborn advertisement reinforces the culture of women having to do everything to please their husbands. The picture on the ad depicts a man spanking his wife across his lap because she disappointed him with flat and stale coffee. Not only are women conforming to this domestically pleasing life style, but men also had

Observe the U.S, ATTN reports that the number of students in Home economics has decreased approximately 38%in a period of ten years. Now observe the local towns of Myrtle Point and Powers…That is right, there no longer is Home economics. Our students, my peers, we will not only fail at washing laundry we will fail ourselves along the way. If these two towns were to provide a training center for young adults I’d want what I believe we need. We need the knowledge to know how to take care of ourselves. Life skill classes could give us the power to do just that.

Ever since that night, I set my mind on proving to my family that women are more than homemakers and that’s what pushed me to apply for University High School when I was 13. I chose to apply and attend the school because I knew the college preparatory school would only push me to make the most out of my education. Every day of my life since has been dedicated to challenging the idea that women are nothing more than homemakers.

More than 44 million people in 2009 were identified as living in food insecurity, the USDA’s current term for going hungry (Imhoff 17). The government, nonprofits and other organizations have been drafting potential solutions for a while to solve world hunger, but the number of food insecure people is still exceptionally high and on the rise. The complete abolishment of it is presumably unattainable, but reducing it to a much smaller amount is certainly possible and a necessity. All American citizens are targets. One economic depression or catastrophic mishap may leave you in food insecurity and desperate need for help. So don't you wish our country has a well-functioning system able to support us all? The US’s main answer to food insecurity is the Farm Bill. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs(SNAP) is the major program contained in the bill. From 2008-2010, 72.3% of the farm bill and 53.1 billion dollars was dedicated to SNAP, and current enrollment in it is at the highest (Imhoff 52). Is SNAP the best solution to widespread hunger? Should the United States dedicate so much money in effort to it? “The current SNAP program is so deeply flawed, the United States should draft another “food stamp” policy and remove it from the Food Bill.

Factory farming describes how large modern farms produce food in large quantities for a small cost. Factory farms, however, pollute the air by releasing harmful gases. They practice deforestation to claim more farmland. Factory farms pollute our waters to keep costs low. Factory farming is harming the environment

1.5 Describe how to identify suitable opportunities for an individual to learn or practice skills for daily living?

Numerous teens go off to college not knowing basic life skills that become increasingly helpful when you're off on your own. Figuring things out on your own isn’t always an awful thing, but if you had someone to teach you about life and how to manage your way through it, it would be so helpful. One not so great thing about figuring information out on your own is that you could end up making some costly mistakes. One of the best times to learn life skills such as managing money, cooking, raising a child, first aid, relationship and communication skills, and how to get a job is right before a teen goes off to college. There is a great deal of teens who go off to college and will be living on their own for the first time, if we taught life skill type classes in high school they would be more prepared to go off on their own.

Women for years have been automatically given the role of the domestic housewife, where their only job is to cook, clean, and take care of the children. Men have usually taken the primary responsibility for economic support and contact with the rest of society, while women have traditionally taken the role of providing love, nurturing, emotional support, and maintenance of the home. However, in today’s society women over the age of sixteen work outside of the home, and there are more single parent households that are headed by women than at any other time in the history of the United States (Thompson 301.)

For years flocks of children have gotten up at the crack of dawn and gone to the brick building to sit at their desks for eight hours straight, but now a very effective style of school called homeschooling has emerged. Most of todays parents have gone to a public school because homeschooling was not very well known back when they were school aged. Since then, homeschooling has become much more popular and has been proven to be effective. Parents should consider homeschooling their kids as an alternative to sending them to a public school.

The definition of self-sufficient for this research is being able to provide ones needs without government assistance. The Human Capital Theory adds to this definition by stating that it is the belief that people want more so they do the things necessary for them to become self-sufficient. They either attend a trade school or they attend college so that they can increase their marketable skills thereby putting them on the road to becoming self-sufficient. The goal of being self-sufficient applies to every Work First TANF participant but for this study

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

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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.

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

Most parents hear the word “home-school” and conjure up many assumptions that are either false or overlooked at. The technology provided, as well as the teaching quality spent on home-schooled children requires a lot of time and effort from the parents; it is an act of dedication and total commitment. According to the Robinson Curriculum, the parents have “little personal time or time alone. If care is not taken to set aside time for yourself, it is easy to never have time alone. They are basically with their [children] 24/7” (The Robinson Curriculum). There are many positives as well as the negatives outlooks pertaining to “sheltering” kids from attending private or public schools. Many adults are