CB> sure.  Since that robot 
 CB> was purchased, the technology department in our 
 CB> high school was cut from 
 CB> 4 teachers to 2, mostly due to pressure from the state to force more 
 CB> students to take "college prep" courses.
Awk!!
What is going on back east--Matt S. had mentioned this in a post to me a few 
weeks ago. I hope that doesn't happen here. The community colleges in this 
area are scrambling to provide technical courses for all kinds of jobs that 
are open in the area--but they are for people that have had some training. 
For example, the college offers a program in Library Science (an associates 
degree). Several of their students have been hired locally at public and 
school libraries. 
 
I think that college prep is cheap and easy on the taxpayers pocket-however 
it is often the worst choice for quite a number of students.
--- Maximus 2.02
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