this is a funny thread... I teach Home Economics! It is now called Family and Consumer Science -but it is Home Ec. I have teugh child development, family dynamics, ran an in school child care center where the students were the teachers for the pre-school children, fashion design and construction, decoration, and of course food production...nutrition..culinary arts. The class I am teaching this year is Culinary Art Careers and Planning (just means they put career onto a food production class)
I hope I am one of the teachers that leads students to the love of cooking and good food choices.... we have about 20 to maybe 24 labs each year. My class if very popular.
I really don't remember when I started cooking. I do remember a cake I made and did not have frosting so colored sugar green. I hid it under the sink to suprise my mom and my older brother found it and said it was something for bugs!!
I was very hurt. I think I was about 10 or 11.. so I made a cake from scratch.
I decided to be a Home Economics teacher when I was in middle school... about 12 or 13. I didn't start teaching until I was in my 30.. and have been teaching for about 26 years now. It is a hard job, but it keeps me on my toes!