Garden Spot High School Research Paper

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Throughout the years, the way students were taught and what they were taught was for the good, but caused a lot of issues. Our schools haven’t compensated for these cons of the dismissal of certain programs, especially Home Economics. The Home Economics program has educated many students in the past on how to cook, how to take better care of a child, and so on. Most high school students don’t know how to make basic recipes, how to take care of babies and or children, and don’t know where to start after graduating. People might respond to this epidemic by claiming that parents can teach their children, but not all students have parents willing to teach them the basics of survival and some students might not have parents to teach them what home …show more content…

Without being informed and taught how to cook, some students have to rely on eating pre-packed or fast food since they aren’t educated on how to cook. Students will have to resort to these unhealthy foods and takes more money out of their pocket as well as made the overall population more obese.
Schools haven’t helped in teaching people how to clean up. In Garden Spot High school, there isn’t a recycling initiative, any classes that teach students on how to keep themselves and their homes clean, and so on. It is a shame that Garden Spot doesn’t have an interest in keeping the school clean, which teaches students that recycling or cleaning up in general isn’t important. The lack of a program that teaches students how to clean after themselves increases the severity of the messiness issue that’s been going on within schools.
Schools haven’t invested in showing the difficulty of taking care of a child. Most students have to find out themselves the reality of having a child instead of being informed of the expenses of children in school. People won’t worry about the chances of pregnancy unless they know what happens afterwards and the money that is …show more content…

In order to promote health and getting students prepared for the outside world, students need to know how to cook meals from hand, not from fast food places or from pre-packaged foods. Many teenagers as mentioned before, can’t cook and by not having a kitchen because it cost money is a bad excuse. Most kitchens for small businesses can be at a minimum of $15,000, which sounds like a lot, but the state or federal government can finance this inconvenience with grants. Without a kitchen, schools are going to have a hard time with keeping up with the department of health’s standards and informing students of how to cook the basic

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