Home economics covered many aspects of managing a successful home, such as:
Food and nutrition: Preparing nutritious meals, food safety, and preserving food to prevent disease
Child development: Understanding how children develop and how to respond to them at different stages
Personal and family finances: Budgeting, saving for emergencies, and setting financial goals, how to pay taxes.
Housing and interior design: Learning about home decoration and maintenance
Textiles and apparel: Sewing and others textile work
Heath & Hygiene: Learning how to properly take care of your hair, clothes, body, etc.
These are vital skills that children are missing out on learning, especially if they do not have a stable home environment where they are taught outside of school hours. Not teaching these vital skills leaves many children vulnerable and unsuccessful after graduation as they are left to struggle and figure out life through difficult trial and error, if they figure it out at all. I have discussed the absence of Home Economics with many parents and they agree it would be a helpful addition to the school curriculum. I’ve also talked to many people who took Home Economics while in school and they loved it. Each person had something they learned from it and still used to this day.