It blows my mind that Lynn Tech is one of the five schools in Lynn that are failing. It is not only failing but it's enrollment. I don't have the actual statistics in front of me so if I'm wrong on any of this I hopesomebody will correct me.
In today's employment market, the technology driven trades should be all the rage in this school of practical education. The doors of the institution should be busting at the seams instead of suffering a declining enrollment. With STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education poised to lead our economy in the future, questions abound about how our educational administrators both let the school decline to this point and how they expect to rescue the students.
I have not toured the school and have only actually been in a couple of rooms but I did have a step-son graduate from the auto body program a couple of years ago. It just seems to be a fresh, exciting place to learn about real life. If we just started with enough enthusiasm about the wonderful, practical,and real opportunities available there, that that enthusiasm would be contagious. As I have said before, it's all about presentation. We need our leaders to present well.
There are more then 5 schools failing in Lynn. According to the AYP report for the 2009-2010 school year (link posted below)
ReplyDeletehttp://profiles.doe.mass.edu/state_report/ayp2009.aspx?mode=school
All of the elementary schools (except Sisson, Aborn and Tracey) are failing and are required to allow their students to go to another non-failing school in the district.
All of the middle schools are failing are required to allow their students to go to another non-failing school in the district.
All of the high schools are passing except LVTI.
Unfortunately for Lynners there is a gaping loop hole in the No Child Left Behind legislation which only allow children to attend a non-failing school in THEIR DISTRICT. So what happens when all of the elementary schools, except three, and all of the middle schools are failing?