The exact measure of education
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February 1, 2010 • Jackie Balzer, Staff Reporter
Filed under Feature
The four long, never-ending years complaining to parents that you shortly would be moving out have finally passed. Life is now yours to live however you want, but you may realize later that you were not fully prepared for the real world.
At our school there are classes that are provided, taught by a number of teachers, to help you be prepared for living on your own one day. Some of these classes include Married Life, Developing Child, Personal Finance Management, Healthy Eating and Nutritional Habits, and Food Preparation.
According to the 2009-2010 course guide, Married Life is supposed to help students be prepared for relationships, independent living and marriage. The units covered consist of personality, dating, sexuality, mate selection, marriage adjustment, finances, family relationships and aging.
This course is offered to juniors and seniors and is a semester class worth half a credit.
Developing Child is intended to help students learn about children and how they develop. This class goes over the roles of parenting and daycare as a career. Conversation begins with conception of a child and goes on through the preschool years.
“I feel this class sets students up for life because it teaches good people skills,” junior Trey Desaire said. “We learn how to work with small children, and I feel that that age group is the most challenging to deal with.”
Junior Brandell Sterling agreed this is a good course to take if there is an interest in having children.
“The hands on experience from taking care of the children one on one as part of class projects was very beneficial,” Sterling said. “We got to learn from real life kids, not just what the videos and instructional books tell us. I believe that this class should be a prerequisite to having children.”
Throughout this process, students are exposed to hands-on training with preschool aged children. This course is offered to juniors and seniors for a $10 fee and lasts for a semester worth half a credit.
“Ninety-five percent of students are going to get married and 93 percent of students are going to have children,” teacher Cathy Kuhn said. “I think that it is imperative to learn about both. These classes really prepare you to be a better person, parent, and spouse and if your happy in those areas then life is pretty good.”
Personal Finance Management focuses on the consumer issues students will experience throughout their adult life.
Topics covered and discussed in this class are the economy, consumers’ right and responsibilities, earning and spending, saving and investing, credit, fraudulent and deceptive sales practices, insurance, transportation, clothing and housing needs, health care costs, and social responsibilities.
“Personal Finance has helped me understand the true value of money,” junior Murrae Rebarchek said. “We have learned how to correctly balance and keep records for our checkbooks. We have been learning about different variations of insurance. It has brought many thoughts about my future to mind.”
This semester class is offered to sophomores, juniors and seniors and is worth half a credit.
“This class provides the basic understanding and terminology so that when they are in the real world, they know what kinds of questions to ask and what things to be leery of,” teacher Kim Dinkel said. “We really touch on the units that cover use and abuse of credit cards, insurance function and leases and mortgages.”
Healthy Eating and Nutritional Habits is for students who have some knowledge of basic foods and are interested in taking that knowledge to the next level and learning how foods affect the health of our bodies.
Topics that are studied in this class include the six major nutrients, sports nutrition, label reading, weight management, food safety, and fast food analysis.
This course is offered to sophomores, juniors and seniors for a $10 fee. It is worth half a credit and can count towards required health credits.
Food Preparation introduces students to more advanced food preparation methods as well as food safety and sanitation.
Units that experimental labs will be constructed for include soups and sauces, meats, pastries, yeast breads, cake and cake decorating and international cooking. Topics of food careers, nutrition and consumerism are also investigated.
Students are required to have already taken basic food preparation to take this course. It is available for sophomores, juniors and seniors for a $20 fee and lasts for one semester.
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