<div dir="ltr">I am.<div><br></div><div>I have a friend visiting from Australia and she asked me what I do, I explained what a FCS teacher was.... and she responded' "oh, we call that Home Economics in Australia."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yes we do the same with FCS in the States, but internationally it's Home Ec.</div><div>Shouldn't we be on the same page?</div><div><br></div><div>Just my thoughts,</div><div>Rachel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Donna Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danderson02@yahoo.com" target="_blank">danderson02@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Okay everyone. �I guess I have gone off the deep end of sanity, but hear me out.<br>
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It has been 20 years since "Family and Consumer Science" became our new name. �It should be a house hold name by now and yet no one knows who we are any more.<br>
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News articles have been written about "Bring Back Home Economics".<br>
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With our world and its new technology, we are needed now more than ever. �Two parent working families. �No one has the time to teach the life blood skills to the next generations. �Diabetes in juveniles at an all time high. �Obesity running rampant in all generations. �Heart disease climbing in its death toll. �We are needed. �What happens when our resources run out, when businesses go belly up, and parents have children that they have no idea how to raise? �We are needed.<br>
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Who will teach people how to cook healthy meals? �Who will teach people how to mend and sew on buttons and hem pants and shirts and heaven forbid - sew? �Who will teach our children how to be accepted in society, to find a job, succeed in school and with their peers? �Who will clean the house and make them a safe and healthy place to live? �No one because there will be no one with enough time to teach them, with all of our positions being eliminated.<br>
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Home Ec. - Yes that is what is needed. �Bring back the staple that everyone recognizes. �The organization that helps families and people to solve those perennial problems of life and living.<br>
<br>
The more I think about this, the more excited I get. �Let's have another Lake Placid, let's be that society that Ellen Richards started so long ago that was so needed in her time. �Let's realize that we are needed every bit as much today. �Let's become that familiar entity that people recognize.<br>
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I want to do this. �Let's start the Home Ec. Society.<br>
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Is there anyone out there that is with me on this?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Donna Anderson<br>
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<div><br></div><div>Yes we do the same with FCS in the States, but internationally it's Home Ec.</div><div>Shouldn't we be on the same page?</div><div><br></div><div>Just my thoughts,</div><div>Rachel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Donna Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danderson02@yahoo.com" target="_blank">danderson02@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Okay everyone. �I guess I have gone off the deep end of sanity, but hear me out.<br>
<br>
It has been 20 years since "Family and Consumer Science" became our new name. �It should be a house hold name by now and yet no one knows who we are any more.<br>
<br>
News articles have been written about "Bring Back Home Economics".<br>
<br>
With our world and its new technology, we are needed now more than ever. �Two parent working families. �No one has the time to teach the life blood skills to the next generations. �Diabetes in juveniles at an all time high. �Obesity running rampant in all generations. �Heart disease climbing in its death toll. �We are needed. �What happens when our resources run out, when businesses go belly up, and parents have children that they have no idea how to raise? �We are needed.<br>
<br>
Who will teach people how to cook healthy meals? �Who will teach people how to mend and sew on buttons and hem pants and shirts and heaven forbid - sew? �Who will teach our children how to be accepted in society, to find a job, succeed in school and with their peers? �Who will clean the house and make them a safe and healthy place to live? �No one because there will be no one with enough time to teach them, with all of our positions being eliminated.<br>
<br>
Home Ec. - Yes that is what is needed. �Bring back the staple that everyone recognizes. �The organization that helps families and people to solve those perennial problems of life and living.<br>
<br>
The more I think about this, the more excited I get. �Let's have another Lake Placid, let's be that society that Ellen Richards started so long ago that was so needed in her time. �Let's realize that we are needed every bit as much today. �Let's become that familiar entity that people recognize.<br>
<br>
I want to do this. �Let's start the Home Ec. Society.<br>
<br>
Is there anyone out there that is with me on this?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Donna Anderson<br>
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