Home Ec is becoming Healthy Living. Once we move into our new school in a year, or two, we'll have gardens and dedicated recycling and waste management areas. Home Ec will be really Green... "and wouldn't you like to teach that?" she asked. I did want to teach that. And thus I became a Home Ec Teacher.
It was after the proverbial ink dried that I heard the stories that scared me. Stories that made me wonder just WHAT I had gotten myself into...
Now, I'm not a new teacher. I've been at this for ten years, and quite a few of those years are at this school. It makes sense to try something new where people know you and have forgiven you. It would be harder, I think, to change schools and try such a dramatic change.
At least my staff knows me well enough not to take my dramatics too seriously, and they KNOW it's not as bad as I say it is... and if it really is that bad, I usually settle down with a cup of tea and a big chunk of dark chocolate.
So, as I attempt to teach middle school home ec, go green and stay reasonably sane, it just made sense to start another blog. The other ones are on the back burner, so to speak.
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