Bring Back Home Economics Class Because Our Kids Lack Basic Life Skills

Article From: healthfoodhouse.com

Some of you have surely studied Home Economics or Family and Consumer Sciences back at school, classes that taught us the basic skills needed for our daily life.  On the courses, girls learned to sew, cook, manage the budget and finances, while young boys learned to build things, use tools, fix things, etc.

The Home Economics course had several good aims, including to teach young girls to become good wives and housekeepers, to teach them to clean, cook, sew, and to provide them with life skills.

On the other hand, shop class was based on the premises that boys should grow up and become strong men, able to build and fix things, use drills, hacksaws, work with metal and wood.

However, the entire concept of a traditional family has shifted over time, and it has brought both, positive and negative changes. 

Now, the current school education school programs lack such lessons. Some believe that those courses are not suitable for the cutting edge educational modules, and schools focus on things like normal center and capability- based learning with constrained subsidizing.

On the other hand, there are also parents who are worried that their children lack the basic skills to survive in the world as an adult.

There is no doubt that English, history, and arithmetic are vital, but Home financial matters served to teach students about the needed skills for cooking, health and helped construct solid associations with accounts.

Nowadays, secondary schools are constrained in explicit home financial aspects courses. Now, understudies can be given the opportunity to choose individualized related courses, for example, Family Studies, Food, and Nutrition, or Health and Safety.

These courses have not totally left the school system, but their quality is reduced. In 2012, there were just 3.5 million understudies taken a crack at Family Consumer Science auxiliary projects, which is a 38 percent reduction within 10 years.

Yet, Susan Turgeson, President of the Association of Teacher Educators for Family and Consumer Sciences, says that classes may still incorporate useful subjects like network planting, treating the soil, and even hydroponics-things.

While some find no sense in revisiting Home Ec and Shop classes again, others believe that it could make a huge difference in the lives of many, and children will learn how to save money and time. 

Do you think such courses would be beneficial for understudies?  Can such classes contribute to a better society tomorrow?

A new album and fresh hits for ‘Game Changer’ Johnny Gill

By Jonathan Landrum Jr.The Associated Press

Fri., Sept. 6, 2019

Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant

LOS ANGELES - Johnny Gill might be considered an old-school crooner these days, but age has only been a number for the R&B veteran who is still making his presence felt.

Gill’s “Soul of a Woman” topped Billboard’s adult R&B songs chart in June and “Perfect” featuring New Edition bandmate Ralph Tresvant recently reached No. 22. The songs are lead singles for his eighth studio album “Game Changer II,” which arrives Friday.

With his new project, Gill said he wants to offer different melodies other than his traditional R&B flavour. The 11-track album includes slow ballads and up-tempo tracks, reggae tunes along with some Latin energy from Carlos Santana and Sheila E.

The album is a sequel to Gill’s 2016 offering, “Game Changer,” which included “This One’s For Me and You,” an adult R&B chart-topper with New Edition.

Ava DuVernay Brings Exonerated Five To Emmy Awards

Ava DuVernay attended the 71st Emmy Awards ceremony on Sunday alongside the inspirations for her Emmy-nominated work. The director brought the group of men who were wrongfully convicted of a 1989 Central Park rape — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — to the event on Sunday. The Exonerated Five, who were once known as the Central Park Five, are the subject of DuVernay’s “When They See Us” miniseries, which is up for Outstanding Limited Series. 

“It was the most important thing for us to see each other’s story,” Salaam told E! News. “To humanize us in such a magnificent way was such an honor. ... This was the first time after almost a decade for us to have seen each other’s stories.”

The Exonerated Five have made appearances at awards shows in the past. In June, the group received a standing ovation at the BET Awards, where they each presented a line of dialogue in front of the audience. 

“We are all on our own individual journey in life. We don’t know where our journey will take us or if (it) will collide with others. One day will bond me to these men for the rest of our lives. But I know that in telling our truth, our lives have been changed forever. Your truth is the foundation your legacy will be built on,” the group said.  

The men, who are Black and Latinx and were aged 14 to 16 at the time of the incident, were coerced by detectives using scare tactics and manipulation into confessing to the brutal beating and rape of a 28-year-old white woman. They later recanted the admissions in court, but the media skewed their story as well, erroneously labeling the group as rapists before they could even get to trial. 

Santana, Richardson, McCray and Salaam were convicted as juveniles and sentenced to five to 10 years in prison; Wise was convicted as an adult and sentenced to five to 15 years. It wasn’t until 2002 that a judge overturned the convictions, after another incarcerated individual confessed to the crime. 

DuVernay’s Netflix series marked the first time that the story had been told from the perspective of the Exonerated Five. It’s since been critically acclaimed for its deeply personal look into each of the individuals’ lives and its bold exposure of the pervasive racism within the criminal justice system. DuVernay herself has nabbed writing and directing Emmy nominations for “When They See Us.”

Several of the cast members from her miniseries are also up for acting Emmys.