program, but we are not in the Fort Wayne district.
Ivy Tech has decent program but they are really setup for post high
school. The schools my kids are going through are well rated schools,
they just don't have a decent trades setup.
Ironically most of the people in my area live off skilled trades jobs.
Some of the outlying schools in Indiana are just downright bad from what
I have heard. I think that Greensburg's (Southeast of Indy about 40
miles) HS dropout rate is close to 50%. Horrible! They were in the
national news a year ago or so due to the very high dropout rates. When
we moved here from Cincinnati 10+ years ago we looked for a decent
school system. We could have done better, but we could have done much
worse also.
Dave
R Wink wrote:
> We, in Evansville, are pretty lucky. The Evansville School system has a
> school, used to be named "North High School," that has been replaced with a
> dedicated Trade school. Additionally, we have Ivy Tech and ITT for after
> secondary school education in addition to the building trades. All are
> going great guns...ITT just put on an addition, IVY Tech took over a high
> school a few years back and just recently did a complete modernization and
> expansion and the trade school is crowded, looking for more space.
> None of this, though, helps my grand daughter or will help my grandson, both
> of who live in New Albany. The standard school systems there are really
> good but offer no trades or even the start of trades training.
> R. Wink
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DIY-CNC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DIY-CNC@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Dave
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 7:47 AM
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>
> I'm up near Fort Wayne and of course my kids must endure the same screwy
> school system that you tolerate.
>
> I have two daughters - one is in her first year of college now. The
> other is in 10th grade so I know exactly what you mean.
>
> The entire idea of pathing a kid into a career track early on is nuts. I
> wanted to be a professional guitarist in 11th grade. I ended up being an
> engineer! Talk about a left turn...
>
> There are ways around the process however.
>
> There are elections you can make that will allow your kids to take
> pretty much any classes you/they desire. But you have to play the game
> right.
> Both my kids will go through college so it was a matter of choice of
> which one was the best track to make them ready to do so. I think my
> older daughter was on a Pre-med path - which basically meant that she
> could take the basic classes plus science classes which is what she
> wanted to do anyway. She's in year one of college now and is waffling
> between Poly Sci and a Pre-med track. I think she will end up in pre-med
> which is good since she has some serious health problems anyway.
>
> My younger daughter is on the same track in HS that my older daughter
> was. I think she may end up an engineer, but we'll see. You never know
> for sure which way they will go.
>
> But if either of my daughters wanted to get into any type of trade at
> their school other than the construction trades ( which are huge around
> here - too big in fact) they would be better off moving into the Fort
> Wayne school district since they actually have a vocational center that
> teaches the trades and gives them school credit for taking the courses.
> Like your schools, the school up here make all trade related courses
> electives. Doesn't count towards graduation at all. The courses they do
> offer are really superficial. They have few machines, nothing like what
> I was exposed to in HS. It's really sad.
>
> Things could be a lot better!
>
> Dave - Ditch Mitch before he sells everything! (;->)
>
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