February 11, 2018 11:17AM
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Points well taken Mike, my biggest issues is that most of the teachers I worked with have never been out in the real world other than perhaps a summertime job in high school and college and have no idea what jobs are out there. We are who we are because of lifetime experiences, and having been an Exxon dealer for years , and then changing careers into teaching I feel gave me some insight that most of my colleagues at work do not have. Almost everyone I worked with would not have a skill other than teaching because that is all they know.
When they push for bond measures out here for education all they talk about is adding music and the arts back into schools. While those have value, how many of our students can make a career in those fields? Shop classes 'were' the carrot that kept many marginal students in school, not dropping out and graduating, something like sports can. I can guarantee you that many more of my students are making a good living in an automotive career field than we ever had in sports. (And our school went to and won state high school basketball championship several times in the last 20 years).
The sad part to me is when I run into a former student who now is either a security guard or some other entry level job because that is all they can get because they were not given any skills other than the ones to go to college. Society in whole needs to get a reality check and start realizing that technical education has value and stop preaching the college is for everyone slogan. Its going to be hard to reverse what everyone has been hearing for two generations though.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/11/2018 11:57AM by John Cole.
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