City Judge Asks Council to Support New Vocational School
Chattanooga Times Free Press › September 07, 2009
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"They build these other schools for academia," Judge [Russell Bean] said. "I'm talking about one centralized school. I think it's absolutely the perfect time."
Hamilton County Board of Education Chairman Kenny Smith, long a supporter of vocational education, also plans to attend today's City Council meeting in support of Judge Bean's resolution. Although he also has brought up the need for a separate career and technical high school, he said he wanted to make sure it wouldn't hurt the program Sequoyah already operates."I think it'd be good for downtown," he said. "A lot of people can't drive up here to go to Sequoyah.""In court I see so many kids who have gotten discouraged in high school," he said. "They don't have the mindset for foreign language or for Shakespeare. They can build a car or a house, but they get discouraged with the present curriculum and they drop out."See the full content of this document
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City Judge Asks Council to Support New Vocational School
By Kelli Gauthier
kgauthier@timesfreepress.comHamilton County's public school administrators are closing schools they no longer can afford to operate, but several ...See the full content of this document
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