I am a big believer in teaching the trades and skills and arts to our kids. It gives some who aren’t interested in college another avenue and quite often they teach kids about professions that won’t be outsourced to third world countries.
In Duval we don’t call the programs trades and skills anymore we call them career academies and in the superintendents letter to the editor he points out that there are thirty-seven of them, what he doesn’t point out is the vast majority of them are at just two schools. He says more than six thousand kids are taking them but what he doesn’t point out is that is less than five percent of our student body and what he also doesn’t point out is that seventy percent of the students in the career academies are also taking accelerated or advance classes. Which makes me think the vast majority of our kids are not being served.
The letter should have said, we’re off to a good start but we need to do a lot more for a lot more but of course he would have to have been straightforward to do so.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/opinion/letters-readers/2012-05-02/story/letters-readers-why-church-and-state-should-be-separated#ixzz1tioTzZlc
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