Yea. That doesn't make it accessible. We bus to our offsite partnership at Coll of Lake County. Archived Message
Posted by OskeeWowWowDig on March 1, 2017, 14:02:16, in reply to "Our school has a really solid engineering program"
Cool that your school has that Engineering focus. I'd like to see more schools provide an array of options - some that lead to 4 yr schools, some 2yrs, some grab a job right out of HS. Previous Message but it's definitely geared toward college bound engineers. Out technology stuff is very lightweight (programming, web page design, networks, etc). And as I mentioned, we have nothing votech, although we do partner with the community college. Problem there is that kids have to provide their own transportation, and it has to fit their schedule. Previous Message offers a path to success for some kids who seem to desire a more vocational path...I wish we had more fully developed programs of that sort across the board. Those should be the choices that parents/students have as they work through the educational system. Previous Message But given where we are, we probably don't need one (although the engineering staff doesn't entirely agree) Previous Message learning for students while changing the ideology and pressure that exists on a lot of kids to attend 4yr institutions. Previous Message My youngest bil did a two year electrician's program at Jefferson County (MO) Community College. He's now a shift supervisor at a Proctor and Gamble plant. Previous Message the need for more colleges and taxpayer monies by changing the ideology of how we educate kids. Previous Message This is thread about massive waste of taxpayer dollars at for shit colleges. Previous Message 1) Culturally we seem to have a mindset that a Bachelors degree is a minimal life requirement. The reality is that not every profession and person needs a 4yr degree to reach their personal goals. 2) Instead of school vouchers/choice, which your "great" president and the idiot currently in charge of the DOE propose, it would require a more creative solution to improve public education. For starters, high schools could look dramatically different if they were tailored to be more hands-on, experiential learning centers that catered to a variety of needs - some leading to higher education, others leading to other outcomes including vocational goals. Right now, I have a student who reads at about the 4th/5th grade level (and is a 10th grader). There are many contributing factors - including a complete lack of motivation because he already is involved in a tech job. Should I be pushing him to college when he is minimally interested? He believes he can make $1,000/week if he does his tech thing full time. Does our school system fail him if he doesn't graduate high school or if he comes out reading poorly? While I try to have him keep an open mind on the potential benefits of college for someone like him (more business knowledge - future MBA, etc.), my ultimate goal is to stress the importance of increasing his literacy rates for his well-being. Would he better served by a high school whose focus, beyond a core of literacy education, was tech or entrepreneurial focused? Probably. He'd likely see the value of literacy within that umbrella. Point of the example? It's not school choice that is going to save kids like this - it is engaging them in such a way that we serve their future needs, regardless of whether that means 4 yr college. We can do this, but it would require big change and someone in charge of the DOE who had an original thought and wasn't a doofus. Previous Message Previous Message
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- Wow. Some sobering stats on public colleges and universities - Sydney Carton March 1, 2017, 9:01:25
- 25% of colleges/universities could go away and would not be missed. * - IlliniHimey March 1, 2017, 12:02:11
- Point #3: "Not all colleges are equal". I think the people who see Chicago State know this already. - osklister March 1, 2017, 10:56:21
- when you subsidize something, you end up with too much of it - nerdstats March 1, 2017, 10:45:06
- colleges need to cut down the overhead. - detlef March 1, 2017, 10:04:36
- I was thinking about this the other day. - Lexillini March 1, 2017, 9:12:08
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