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High-school senior urges board to add home-economics elective
Summary
A Natomas-area senior presented petition signatures and urged the Board to consider adding a home-economics elective so students can learn cooking and life skills; she requested an elective (not a graduation requirement).
Isabella Patterson, a senior at Inderkum (noted in the transcript as MP3 High School in her self-introduction), presented her senior-project work and urged the Board to consider offering a home-economics elective so students can learn basic life skills such as cooking, time management and nutrition. She said she ran a short instructional program with third graders at Glenwood Elementary and observed measurable gains on a pre/post survey within two months.
Patterson said she has gathered petition signatures from students across Natomas high schools and asked trustees to consider making home economics available as an elective, not as a mandatory graduation requirement. "This is why I am urging you all to consider bringing home economics into our schools so that students can have the opportunity to learn the skill as they were once before," she said.
