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...that may be a long shot because currently many vo-tech teachers aren't state-certified as applied math and science instructors, according to Graham. "The issue will have to be dealt with eventually," he says, "or we're going to have a hard time." Despite such challenges, Graham agrees with his principal that the stricter mandates are appropriate. "It's going to be a fight initially and we might see the dropout rate climb a bit," he predicts. "But this is about having our students ready for where they want to go in life, with the ability to work...
Lividoti says the current system isn't ideal but has one major advantage: It means vo-tech courses attract many students. The vo-tech department can boast that more than half of CRLS' students take its courses, even though few of them are there to learn a trade for career purposes...
When CRLS was restructured this fall, students and teachers were divided up into five small schools. And that meant breaking up the vo-tech teachers, who previously had worked together...
That's not the system that vo-tech teachers had wanted. They thought that vocational teachers could remain together and offer technical arts classes to all students at CRLS...
...small schools adopted that approach, vo-tech teachers say that might be an improvement over the old system...