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Speaker 1: I have to be honest, as you have spent a

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Speaker 1: little while since I sat in the home economics class

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Speaker 1: in Turkou College, So there is a fair chance that

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Speaker 1: my experience is a little out of date by about

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Speaker 1: twenty years. And I might just make a fool of

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Speaker 1: myself with what I'm about to say next. But I

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Speaker 1: do not understand the angst about Erica Stanford dropping home

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Speaker 1: economics from the NCEEA curriculum. There is an opinion piece

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Speaker 1: in the spin off today and it's arguing against Erica

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Speaker 1: Stanford removing this quote vital subject from our school subject

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Speaker 1: list because it's a quote moral decision, because quote everyone

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Speaker 1: deserves to know what's in their food, how it affects

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Speaker 1: their health, and how to make choices that support their

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Speaker 1: overall well being. Now I tend to agree with that

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Speaker 1: you should know what's going on in your food. But

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Speaker 1: from what I understand, home mech is still being taught

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Speaker 1: and will still be taught to years nine and ten

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Speaker 1: in some form or another. That's not going to change.

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Speaker 1: And if you cannot learn in the space of two

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Speaker 1: years that you need to eat your fruit and your

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Speaker 1: vegetables and your meat and maybe avoid the process stuff

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Speaker 1: and the sugar. Then I don't have much hope that

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Speaker 1: you're ever going to learn this stuff. And what's more,

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Speaker 1: we are already we are one of the most obese

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Speaker 1: nations on this planet. So home economics hasn't done very

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Speaker 1: much for us in helping us to keep ourselves healthy

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Speaker 1: in the last one hundred and fourteen years that it's

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Speaker 1: been around, has it. But also, and I think this

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Speaker 1: is the most important thing. Come on, did you actually

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Speaker 1: learn anything in homech Libby, who works with us, reckons

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Speaker 1: that in one class she spent the entire class just

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Speaker 1: learning how to make a sandwich. I remember setting a

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Speaker 1: pot of oil on fire and learning how to and

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Speaker 1: then running around with them being taught how to put

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Speaker 1: the fire out. So I suppose that's semi helpful. But

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Speaker 1: also I learned how to cut carrots, which, frankly, you

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Speaker 1: know I should have known anyway. All of this stuff

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Speaker 1: you can learn at home. Now, home economics strikes me

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Speaker 1: as one of those subjects that the country would be

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Speaker 1: better off dropping all together and replacing with another session

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