Why do some school systems have great career technology programs and state of the art facilities, while not supporting them? It is my understanding that career technology teachers are responsible for bringing students in to their program, but guidance counselors are responsible for registration of the students.
We are being told our programs will be cut if we do not have enough students in our
classes. Based on this information perhaps career technology teachers should be responsible for class registration or actively involved in the process.
In my opinion this is not a fair policy because career technology teachers are being held responsible for student recruitment when they have no direct or indirect control over student placement. . This sounds like a true contradiction to me.
You raise an excellent point about the conflict between student recruitment and student placement in CTE courses. I like your idea about having CTE teachers do their own recruitment and placement. Why not take that idea up with your department chair? Maybe your school could have a CTE Fair, like a job fair, to recruit the "best and brightest" for your classes. It would be great PR for your programs.
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