tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372317035256264363.post4167812432931207818..comments2024-01-14T02:35:04.947-06:00Comments on Reclaim Oklahoma Parent Empowerment: Is Common Core Really Over In Oklahoma?Jenni L. Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16384751674062669863noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372317035256264363.post-11356043952950117032014-07-24T12:30:28.057-05:002014-07-24T12:30:28.057-05:00Career ready: 1) many people are cut out for worki...Career ready: 1) many people are cut out for working with their hands. Careers abound in upholstery, managing a store inventory, assistant managers of all kinds.2) Careers using people relations (beyond the public relations and HR reps) are abundant: clerks, customer service desks, shoe store salesmen, printing shop attendants. Putting big plans and the additional money after high school (OK Promise) into every child's education can be a wash when there are always fewer top -notch,affluent B.A., B.S. and MA degreed jobs to go around at the end of a college career. Why not put some emphasis of a technical scope or human relations scope in front of the young gentlemen and ladies in 8th and 9th grade, and let them decide at the end of 9th grade how much of the college prep classes they really need when our economy needs energetic, integrity- filled workers and business personnel that the fore-mentioned industries could use. Kind of form a track like the nursing LPN schooling that runs simultaneously with High School. Workers are ready at the end of High School. Students are motivated during High School with a plan that appeals to them. For instance I have bright children that can do real math, but they don't see themselves going into Engineering and Medical School of any kind. They want to be in a small business setting or such. They need Businesses in the Communities that readily offer internships so that they can get the feel of the business and the day to day scene, and a few choices of classes/opportunities for H.S. credit to inform and ready them for a job. They could go back to school to do Algebra 2 in their mid-twenties if they decide they need a college degree. Then make a separate "Standards" for the college bound and the hands-on career bound. The latter standard would have personnel skills like how to train a new person to do your duties, professionalism in written and verbal communications... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5372317035256264363.post-36942521295750139522014-07-20T18:48:05.722-05:002014-07-20T18:48:05.722-05:00Well said Jenni. Our biggest problem at the moment...Well said Jenni. Our biggest problem at the moment is getting the chambercrats out of the House and Senate.Sooner Watchmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870095740208011857noreply@blogger.com