Family Career and Community Leaders of America went to the capitol to ask for funding. The funding will go towards the resources they need to teach cooking, sewing and overall team building. They had six different house representatives they wanted to talk to but only got to talk to Rhona Baker and Jim Grego.
“We’re asking for more because the amount they give us each year is so minimal it’s unacceptable,” senior Alisabeth Covey said.
FCCLA wasn’t asking for a defiant amount but was rather trying to convince representatives to fund the program as much as they do to other programs. The FCCLA program wants funding for many reasons like more supplies for the program.
“Our FCCLA program is underfunded by almost double the other programs are being funded, we aren’t asking to surpass the other programs but to just even the playing field,” senior Reagan Curry said.
They planned on doing a lot for the community but COVID has affected most of their plans. With COVID and having to watch how much social contact they have, they had to cancel most of the plans they had for this year.
“It’s hard with COVID we can’t have too much contact with people but before COVID, we were going to go to the dog box and PetSmart to help out,” Curry said.
FCCLA and the class FACS education help teach students sewing, cooking and other stuff that isn’t so basic in life as it used to be.
“It teaches kids the home values such as cooking, how to support each other, how to help the community, cleaning and sewing,” Covey said.