[Sca-cooks] Elizabeth Crocker
Bronwynmgn at aol.com
Bronwynmgn at aol.com
Mon Jan 21 11:01:29 PST 2008
In a message dated 1/21/2008 1:14:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
caer_mab at yahoo.com writes:
<<Sigh, even among home ec teachers there is a schism,
and we no longer teach cooking and sewing -- anyone
who can read can cook or follow a pattern instructions
to sew something. At the last meeting of home ec
teachers in my district MANY years ago, one of the
women said she was not a "stitcher & stewer" she only
wanted to teach the family relations and personal
adjustment stuff, and there are very few home ec
classes left in our district these days, plus the only
training they will offer is the
institutional/restaurant management or lodging
management courses >>
Odd, in our area they still have what I would call a home ec class but which
is now called "Family and Consumer Science" or FCS. I know the middle
school level classes (7th and 8th grade) do basic hand sewing including replacing
buttons, basic machine sewing in which everyone makes a bag to carry their
gym clothes, and cooking; their display cases have also included subjects such
as how to do laundry, portion control and nutrition, and cell phone etiquette
("Never send an invitation by texting!"). The high school I work in offers
a variety of cooking options, sewing up to and including pattern design, and
a number of child care and similar classes, including one in which the
student takes home a "Baby Think It Over" doll for a week. For those of you who
are not familiar with this item, it is a computerized doll which cries at
random intervals and can only be made to stop by attending to any of several needs
(feeding, diapering, etc) and has a readout by which the teacher knows if
the student took the batteries out, how long they let it cry before they dealt
with it, etc.
Brangwayna Morgan
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