Why Are Home Ec Classes Important

Home Ec Classes and Their Importance Many do not believe that home Ec class is an important element to high school society. There are also many people particularly parents, and some teachers who believe that home Ec classes bring a good element to schools. Regardless of these two facts, the main issue at hand is that teachers in Home Ec classes are limited in their abilities to teach, and this is proven when teachers are expected to teach copious amounts of life skills, while also getting the bare minimum in supplies and amount of time in their classes. Home Ec. classes have been around for quite a few years now, and in the past, it has taught its students much about how to sew and to cook. While today Home Economics classes focus mainly on

So, when your child wants to go into a STEM based career, they will not get that training inside their home Ec class, because the class does not receive enough funding to provide the tools. Home Ec classes are being limited in so many different ways; although the largest of these is in the lack of educational tools. Many youth do not pursue engineering because they do not see how it connects to their lives and interests. Concerned about this problem, the National Research Council suggested ways that teachers can make engineering more relevant and accessible to youth who have not traditionally pursued careers in this field. (Sias Pg. 4) An interesting thought is that teachers do not need all the physical tools to teach students how to succeed in a career around STEM. Teachers can tap into the knowledge that students already have; for example, if a teacher knows that a majority of the students have immigrant farm working families, then the teacher when writing rules for lab safety could include the students. The teacher could include the students because many of them have family members that have either experienced or seen someone get hurt from falling off a ladder, by mechanical machinery, or back pain from lifting heavy things. By doing this the teacher would engage the class, and ask for their personal experiences, they can then as a group come up with way to help prevent these work

classes is that teachers are expected to teach their students 20+ years of life skills in a matter of five hours a week for one-hundred and eighty days a year. Many of the things taught in Home Ec classes are things people take years to learn out in the real world. (Rose Pg. 7) People do not understand that teachers are already pressed to teach students the typical budgets, and things of that nature, yet now that teachers’ class sizes are getting ever bigger, and tools are being restricted even more it is causing teachers to be stretched much too thin, and it is impacting the students who are being taught by these teachers in a negative way. Teachers are just unable to keep up with the copious amounts of subjects to teach, and the larger class sizes all at the same time. To get a class to settle down and back on topic take anywhere from 2-15 minutes, and for the schools that tend to have a much higher juvenile delinquent enrollment rate this class disruption time can skyrocket further taking away from the