I have just found out that just up the road, Chattanooga tech (U of Tenn) has motorcycle and marine classes ( I teach these as well). I have sent 5 kids off to college last year with scholarships I helped them earn into Nashville and Daytona. This will be a big relief for a lot of my parents and students who didn't exactly want to move off. I had this technical school head come down and be a guest speaker and he mentioned that I have been teaching the same stuff they teach so we are embarking into an articulation agreement with this school. I took a professional leave day for Monday to go up and check the place out and iron out some things.
Friday, I'm getting impatient about not finding a sub yet because I don't know if my professional day has been approved yet. I put this in over 3 weeks ago, come to find out it had made it all the way through the principal, department head, and landed on my CTAE directors desk where it hasn't moved. When I called her, she didn't seem too pleased about it but went ahead and approved it. She came from a college system to work her current job, and she almost immediately set up a mandatory articulation agreement meeting with her former college and suggested we send all the student we can into this school. She also praised and praised articulation agreements. Could I have stepped on her toes by trying to help my students? Or did I simply pee in her cereal because I wanted to articulate with another school other than her former one? What do you think?
I was informed last week that the state no longer wants us to articulate with the tech schools. I was sending my 3rd year students to a local tech school so they could receive certification (I'm not industry certified yet) and I have found out that we cannot do that next year.
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