Should the school district have many more offerings for career
and technical training starting for students who are sophomores in
high school?
THIS WEEK’S WEB POLL:
Should the school district have many more offerings for career and technical training starting for students who are sophomores in high school?
Yes
10
No
2
â– The district can barely pay the teachers to teach basic courses. How on earth are they supposed to teach the technical stuff, too. Maybe Jerry Brown can fix our education budget and we can all take advantage of such offerings.
â– I think it should begin for 9th grade and have levels of completion for different levels of job skill. Not all students want to go on to college but they do want to have a decent paying job. Tech schools give them this opportunity.
â– Yes definitely! Academic achievement expectations must be changed to reflect realistic career path options for technical AND service sector training. What short memories we have. Not too long ago there was a large unmet demand for such jobs. We better be ready when it comes around again!
â– YES YES YES! We need to offer trades as not all students want to follow the college path!
â– Yes. Not every student is going to a four-year university and we should offer options for a successful future to all of our students.
â– Yes. We need to prepare them for a career if they choose not to go to college. The problem is funding.
â– YES absolutely. Technical training is a ‘sleeping giant’ opportunity that would aid and empower many kids who don’t have any interest in college, or are thinking about dropping out of school.
â– The district should have many more vocational education courses and abdicated its roll years ago when it thought that all students should be going to college. Our students and community have been suffering ever since.
â– Yes, any additional career guidance would be a plus.
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