INTRODUCTION: Why does the Philippines Need               the K-12 Education System?

Filipinos are known to be competitive in the international community. However, our current education system hinders us from becoming even more competitive.

Starting in the 2012-2013 school year, the education system of the Philippines was enhanced from the ten years of basic education to a 12-year program through an initiative called the K-12 Education Plan sponsored by the Department of Education.

The implementation of the K-12 plan in the Philippine Basic Education Curriculum is the key to our nation’s development. Though the government faces many problems as it implements the program over the course of several years, it is a necessary improvement since increasing the quality of our education is critical to our nation's success.

    K-12 Education Will Help Filipinos Gain a Competitive Edge

• Though Filipinos are known to be competitive in the international community, our current education system hinders us in becoming more competitive among other countries. The K-12 education plan offers a solution to that problem.
  However, it is undeniable that there will be problems that arise as we implement the program, which could include a lack of budget, classrooms, school supplies, and teachers. That said, the long-term effects of K-12 education will be very beneficial to us Filipinos.
  Therefore, we must support the K-12 educational plan to help improve our educational system and our economy. Remember that change in our society starts with education.

               HOME ECONOMICS

Home Economics is the profession and field of study that deals with the economics and management of the home and community. Home economics is a field of formal study including such topics as consumer education, institutional management, interior design, home furnishing, cleaning, handicrafts, sewing, clothing and textiles, cooking, nutrition, food preservation, hygiene, child development, and family relationships. It prepares students for homemaking or professional careers.

 Why is it Home Economics is Important to Everyone?

Home Economics is also known as Family and Consumer Sciences. It is taught in secondary schools, colleges and universities, vocational school and in adult education centers, where students include women and some men. In the 1800s, home economics classes were intended to ready young women for their duties in the home. Classes were first in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, followed by Latin America, Asia and Africa. International organizations such as those associated with the United Nations have been involved in starting home economics programs around the world. 

                SOME ARTICLES ABOUT HOME ECONOMICS:  

    The  Importance of Home Economics In Schools 📖🏢🏣

Home Economics usually brings to mind sewing aprons and cake baking. However, home economics classes taught much more. These classes acted as a bridge during the 20th Century for women to enter into institutions of higher education and later into professions. When first introduced in the late 1800s, these classes helped girls prepare for life on the farm helping their families. As universities conducted research, home economics classes taught advanced classes in nutrition and hygiene as well as economics. Women who graduated from these advanced programs went on to teaching positions to pass on this knowledge. This led to positions in hospitals, restaurants, hotels, and even government. Thus, what is usually thought of as a class for repressed women actually prepared women for the real world and a career.

• Home economics classes taught advanced classes in nutrition and hygiene because students who enrolled in this strand may apply as a restaurant chef, a pastry chef, bartender, cake designer, or any work that is connected on cooking and serving others. Home economics also teach about hygiene, not only self hygiene that should be natural for all of us, but a hygiene that could help us to be presentable and ready on our future life and career. It's a real life knowledge and skills that can benefit anyone, because it can be a modern teaching of life skills like in our own home. For example, how to cook, how to serve properly, having a balance and nutritious food and also how to handle economic skills.

             

        Why Is Home Economics an Important Subject for High Schools? 📚📖

             Home economics is a valuable addition to a high school curriculum because it teaches students practical skills for daily living. In the process of transitioning from childhood to adulthood, high school students need training in practices such as nutrition, financial responsibility, home management and child development so they can lead safe and productive lives. Most schools have changed the course name Home Economics to Family and Consumer Sciences.

• As said, it is an added high school curriculum that teaches students practical skills for daily living that could help on the future job of anyone. It is also a transitioning stage where high school students could learn different things, improve growth, and process theirselves for adulthood. Home economics also provides training in practices such as financial responsibility, home management and development for a safe and productive future of a senior high student. Most schools also changed the course name to Family and Consumer Sciences. In short, home economics is not just a simple  course or strand in Kto12 curriculum under technology vocational education in senior high, it also help to develop oneself and be productive in the future life.

         
                                          BRING BACK HOME ECONOMICS⏰               

                  In 2003, Jennifer Grossman wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled Food for Thought (and for Credit) with the opening sentence “Want to combat the epidemic of obesity? Bring back home economics.” That thought seemed to simmer for a while and then in 2011, Professor Helen Zoe Viet wrote another opinion piece for the same paper titled Time to Revive Home Ec. In between, in May 2010, a commentary appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Bring Back Home Economics Education” (Lichtenstein & Ludwig, 2010). Since that time reaction to these articles and additional articles have appeared in the popular press and on the Web arguing for the return of home economics as a school subject.

• Bringing back the Home Economics as a subject is important based who writes this article. They want to bring back Home Economics because there’s increasing of obesity that gets their attention badly, so they want to solve this big issue. Obesity can cause such as diabetes, and heart disease and to combat obesity Home Economics is one of the best way. Cooking is very important in each of us to prepare our own food or in our families. Cooking healthy foods is one of the best solution to have a healthy body with proper exercise. Lack of ability to cook is one of the reason why is there increasing of obesity because they can’t cook their own food so they eat outside their house. The four articles stated that cooking was lost skill and home economic courses were needed to teach us how to cook healthy foods. Teaching home economics with new curriculum is not just teaching us how to prepare foods but how to cope with the ups and downs of family life. Another reason why Home Economics need to bring back is because there are foods made cheaply outside which is not healthy because it is a heavily processed.

Feminists Killed Home Economics. Now They Should Bring It                                Back—for Boys and Girls. 👦👧 

            

                         "As a radical feminist, I am here addressing the enemy,” activist Robin Morgan told the American Home Economics Association convention in 1972. She believed that home ec had turned women into “a limp, gibbering mass of jelly waiting for marriage” and urged educators to level with their female students about how consignment to the home is central to “the economic bigotry against women.” She then invited the home economists to join the battle against gendered domestic education, but warned that the women’s movement was “going to win in any event.” 

• As a women, we're  required to have a skills in cooking. But now, Home Economics bringing back to teach not only to those females but also in males to knowledge them how to cook and otherwise tend to the well-being of spouses and children. It is most said that Home Economics courses meant to improve woman's skills in cooking, they also said it is needed to reinforced attitudes entrenched since the dawn of the industrialized age. Middle class white men's destinies is to be professionals while middle class women's duties is to provide the needs of males to make them comfortable. Over the past half century, there are many count numbers of stay-at-home fathers and it's been tripled last 20 years in year 2014. A census study results to an increasing of  spending men's hours with children. This issue has been slow to change about emasculation, where mens take the reaponsibilities of what should females do, but then we still code females. Male's obligations is to earn money.

            
  SOURCE OF OUR ARTICLES: 💯

http://www.qrcodestickers.org/additional-articles/economics-in-schools.html

http://oureverydaylife.com/home-economics-important-subject-high-schools-6173.html

http://he.ifhe.org/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&g=0&t=1468766970&hash=8a8e585f5ba1e80510e6c7de9bd7d5b913e51bba&file=fileadmin/user_upload/redaktion-he/Home_Economics/Home_Economics/Smith_Symposium_Paper_2015_Bring_back_home_ec.pdf

https://newrepublic.com/article/117876/feminists-should-embrace-home-economics   

     CONCLUSION: 💡

Why is it home economics is very importants to ourselves? For me, Home economics helps in our family and in our future. Because you can easily applied it in your future those skills and techniques that have you learned in Home Economics and you can also teach or applied it on others that who wants to learn about Home Economics. Home Economics also helps in our Family because this topic which is the Home Economics is for everyone when you have a good opportunities like seamstress, cookery, baker, chef etc. especially in abroad you can easily helps your family. I think this generation which is now, The Home Economics are soon disappear because other peoples they think Home Economics are not important for us or they will not appreciated this concept. But for me  this is not time to give up, theres a lot of way to easily reintroduce again. Home Ecomomics also teach about hygiene, not only self hygiene that should be natural for all of us, but hygiene that could help us to be presentable and ready on our future life and career.  As i say before this topic help us to enchance our minds and to discovered a new. 
I hope this blog can helps in our community or in our country and whoever read this blog i hope it can helps in your near future because it is very useful and helpful. There's a lot of knowledgeable words and you can easily understand this. So this all. Thankyou for your time to read this blog!😊