AAFCS Weblog

I’ve heard it said, “As goes family and consumer sciences in the secondary schools, so goes the field of FCS.”  With 5.5 million secondary school students across the United States being enrolled in an FCS course, the sheer volume of persons being exposed to an FCS curriculum alone may be reason enough to substantiate this statement.  Presumably, the opportunity for each and every student to take an FCS course as part of their standard education through high school graduation increases the chance that decision makers like Senator Clinton (see previous blog entry) are aware of our field and understand its value to building people’s daily skills for living.

I’m proud that AAFCS is supporting FCS secondary education with a new pre-professional program.  This program will develop assessments and credentials for pre-professionals in the broad field of FCS and in content-specific FCS areas that will fulfill a requirement for Perkins funding and hence, sustain FCS programs at the secondary level.  No matter what your practice setting in FCS, what are you doing to support our programs at the secondary level?