The third meeting of the Sioux Falls School District Facilities Task Force meeting is this Wednesday, May 16, at IPC from 5:30 to 8 PM. The meeting will go on over the entire 2.5 hours, but people can drop in at anytime.
Hopefully more public shows up this time.
Having the New Technology High School, while we try to figure out how we are going to pay for a fourth high school, is like having a nice yacht in your driveway, while the family sits around the kitchen table inside trying to figure out how it is going to be able to afford a decent school car for junior or his pending college education…..
The fourth high school is not a surprise. Its been known or properly forecasted for decades. In fact, the “Mt. Rushmore” motif of our current and potential future high schools more or less guaranteed it. So shouldn’t funds for the fourth have been dedicated before we ever built NTHS?
Plus, I am afraid that NTHS’s existence is merely a fast track potential to an enhanced “Workforce Development Education,” where Bill Shakespeare is replaced with Bill the mechanic….
So the answer is to save money by turning NTHS into the fourth high school, in my opinion. And, its located in the one City quadrant without a high school at this time as well…..So there you go….
#EducationBeforeVocation!
Whether you rent or own
This proposal to spend 278 million tax dollars effects you!!!!
training high school kids for jobs, is done for the sole purpose of keeping wages low.
scott,
That’s a good point. It’s a means of co-opting impressionable young people, who are then compromised in their ability to form unions and or ask basic questions about their work environment.
Plus, whatever happen to the phrase “on-the-job training?” Why do we need an other government program for corporate America? Can’t they train their own workers? Or, do they also want to keep the new young workforce a little dumb and less formally educated so that they won’t be able to ask as many questions as an employee?