Thursday, February 21, 2013
LVTI TO GIVE OUTSIDE KIDS A TRY?
LSC member RICK STARBARD has been harping on this idea for quite some time, well sorta. You see RICK has always extolled the virtues of LVTI and how we ought to be marketing it to other school districts. His CAMPAIGN started I believe back before the timr when DR. LATHAM was all for DISMANTLING the machine shop. After taking a tour of some regional VOCATIONAL schools her opinion changed. The fact that TECH had that GATES FOUNDATION winner further solidified her decision about the value of a vocational education.
ANYWAY......
to make a long story short. The LSC formally agreed to take outside students......
BUT.....
only if there is room. Now mind you, LVTI is way below the capacity of its heyday, Theoretically we could turn this excellent facility into a MONEYMAKER for LPS.....
BUT.....
so far there is not the political will to invest in the commitment to hire the necessary personnel to make this PIPE (as long as we're talking about MACHINE SHOPS) DREAM a reality.
There are oter complications like SCHOOL CHOICE (that's a tangled web) and the fact that other school districts have contractual obligations to other vocational centers......
HOWEVER.....
the decision made to entertain the possibility of accepting placements from the outside was a step in the right direction, even if it was a stutter step,
IT WILL BE GOOD TO BE FINALLY ACCEPTING OUTSIDE PLACEMENTS INSTEAD OF SENDING STUDENTS TO OUTSIDE ONES.
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