Home Ec Classes Essay

One proposal that schools need to change is to bring back home ec classes. Many kids do not know how to do simple things in life; for example, how to sew buttons on a shirt or how to cook a meal. I hear so many kids in my school say “when are they going to teach us something useful, like how to balance a checkbook or how to file taxes.” Over ⅓ of Americans that are under the age of 19 are overweight because they cannot cook themselves a simple meal. There are also record numbers of young adults that are living with their parents because they are unable to find employment or a house and how to pay for it.

Having home ec classes added to the curriculum will help students further themselves in life. If you ask students today how to do anything like dealing with the outside world after school, they have no idea what to do. Home ec classes do not just teach how to sew a button on a shirt or how to make a meal for a family.
Home ec classes teach high schoolers how to balance a checkbook, how to open bank accounts, how to keep track of their money and how to spend money wisely. They are also taught about the importance of savings and retirement accounts. For example, one school in Mississippi taught home ec classes in school. One of their students, Leslie Hobson, took that class, and after she finished she knew that she wanted to get a degree in home ec. She went to college and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Mississippi. She now owns her own design business and does consulting work for realist agents.

Some parents say that home ec classes are not needed in today’s society because technology is the center of everyone’s life.
That a phone or a computer can do everything that we need to do. That schools should not force on teaching about how to keep track of money or how to set up a retirement plan, but on how to prepare us for the work force. But that is what home ec classes do. They help teach how to start accounts and how to cook. These classes would help students decide on a career.
Just because a school is teaching home ec classes does not mean that they have gotten rid of any other classes. Students get to decide what courses they want to take. So if they do not want to take a home ec course, they do not have to. People might also say that it is going to cost more money to add a classroom with all of the things that are needed to teach the class and to hirer a teacher to teach that class. Yes, it will; but most schools taught home ec and got rid of the class. So that school probably still has all of the things that are needed for the
class.

Schools should have a home ec course. The class will teach more than how to sew a button on a shirt or how to cook a meal. It shows kids how to prepare for life after school. It might cost schools a little extra money to hire a teacher, but the class will pay off in the long run.