By Mike Hutchens, UC Schools Communications Director
Union City, Tenn.–This version of distance-learning turned out to be a “sweet” assignment for several Union City High School CDC students.
Among the several tasks given to Regina Turner’s Tornado RISE class that has had students learning from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic since March 19 was a cooking assignment.
Each student was given a recipe for shortbread cookies to make at home and asked to send in photos of the finished product. The activity was designed to be a sociable, treatable activity to complete with family members.
Audri Forrester, for one, followed both instructions and the recipe to a T and proudly produced a plateful of cookies.
Ms. Turner said she follows the old Chinese proverb — “Give a man a fish and you feed him a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” — when assigning such tasks to her students.
In addition to life skills tasks, CDC students have been given assignments for reading, English, science and social studies by Turner.
She said a handful of them had gone on to make corn nuggets, fried fish, homemade bread and other items as well, while also working in their gardens and flower beds.
“Our goal for each (student) as parents and educators is to have them live as independent as possible,” Tuner said.