[Oafcs] Home Economics Society

[Jennifer Klaus]

Very well stated. How do you propose we get our voices heard. Do we create a OAFCS response letter to AAFCS? Do we write individual letters? Do we send letters to all the national affilates? If this is something we feel strongly about, how do we start?
Jennifer Klaus 

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From: Donna Anderson <danderson02 at yahoo.com> 
Date:12/04/2013  9:45 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Jennifer Klaus <jklaus at neo.rr.com>,Manteghi Debra <dmantegh at akron.k12.oh.us>,Sharon Anghilante <sanghilante at hotmail.com>,skb9093 at fuse.net,Shannon Stutzman <hstutz at wifi7.com> 
Cc: oafcs at listserv.ohio.edu 
Subject: [Oafcs] Home Economics Society 


Okay everyone.  I guess I have gone off the deep end of sanity, but hear me out.

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.

News articles have been written about "Bring Back Home Economics".

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.

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.

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.

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.  

I want to do this.  Let's start the Home Ec. Society.

Is there anyone out there that is with me on this?

Donna Anderson
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