Bill Text: IL HR0790 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges that home economics be brought back into high school curriculums with a comprehensive approach covering basic cooking techniques, caloric requirements, sources of food, budget principles, food safety, and effects of food on well-being and risk for chronic disease.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-05-10 - Resolution Adopted [HR0790 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0790-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Home economics is a field of study that deals with | ||||||
| 3 | the economics and
management of the home, family, and | ||||||
| 4 | community; it deals with the relationship between
individuals, | ||||||
| 5 | families, communities, and the environment in which they live; | ||||||
| 6 | and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Home economics had its start in Lake Placid, New | ||||||
| 8 | York during a series of annual
conferences held between 1899 | ||||||
| 9 | and 1910; organized by MIT sanitary engineer Mary Richards,
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| 10 | librarian Melvil Dewey, and a host of other educators, the | ||||||
| 11 | meetings were dedicated to finding
ways to apply the latest in | ||||||
| 12 | science and technology to improve life in the American home; | ||||||
| 13 | and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, In 1908, the conferences led to the creation of | ||||||
| 15 | the American Home Economics
Association, which lobbied the | ||||||
| 16 | federal government to fund educational programs, and the
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| 17 | resultant classes were a means of guiding young people through | ||||||
| 18 | modern consumer culture; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Some school systems have managed to breathe new | ||||||
| 20 | life into the course by
divvying it up into more specialized | ||||||
| 21 | classes, such as courses that specifically address food
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| 22 | preparation, which might be more attractive to prospective | ||||||
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| 1 | students in the age when Food
Network-style programs inject fun | ||||||
| 2 | and excitement into life in the kitchen; however, because
home | ||||||
| 3 | economics is typically classified as an elective course, it, | ||||||
| 4 | like art and music classes, is
prone to being eliminated from a | ||||||
| 5 | school's course offerings; therefore, be it
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| 6 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 7 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 8 | urge that home economics be brought back into high school | ||||||
| 9 | curriculums with a
comprehensive approach covering basic | ||||||
| 10 | cooking techniques, caloric requirements,
sources of food, | ||||||
| 11 | budget principles, food safety, and the effects of food choice | ||||||
| 12 | on well-being, including the risk of
chronic disease; and be it | ||||||
| 13 | further
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| 14 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 15 | delivered to the United States Secretary of Education, the | ||||||
| 16 | Chairman of the
Illinois State Board of Education, and the | ||||||
| 17 | Illinois State Superintendent of Education.
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