CTE

    What I would like written in the history books about CTE is that it is the most needed and relevant source education. We as Americans as a whole have looked over the CTE and forgot how this nation was built with people who had a trade. Still today we depend on people who have a trade. We have come to depend on hair stylist, contractors, and mechanic to make life easy. Just about every business or company has a positions that they need work ready students.

    I attended college for 4 years and recived a BS in Criminal Justice. The cost of a university is about 15,000 per year out of state and 8,000 in-state. I wish I would have attended a Tech school and got a trade. It would have cut my cost of school by more that half. I also could have made 10x more money and finish school in less than 2 years. The tech school will have more students than the college or university in the next few years.

    High schools education in the state of Georgia has become more geared toward the university and college education (College Prep). They have taken away the option for students to recive a Technical Education degree. Every student that we teach is not college/university ready and they need to recive a trade from a Tech school. We are lossing about half of our students due to the College Prep model with the demanding academy classes. As a teacher that understands how important CTE is to the community, work force, and high school students we need to go back to the old model of Technical education and College Prep in the high school.