by David Croyle
We are watching the big game or our favorite show at home on TV and we hardly notice the ad! As soon as the commercial comes on, we are off to changing channels with our remote.
We leave in our car, push the “search” button on our radio, and begin listening to our favorite song or radio personality. As soon as the commercial starts, we hit the search button again and find our next entertainment fix.
This article is tremendously self-serving, but very important. So many of our readers (and they are growing daily) stop me on the street and are thrilled with us bringing another newspaper to Armstrong County. However, we are not alone.
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by Jeff Pyle
I must clearly state this opinion is that of a taxpayer: nothing more, nothing less. In Pennsylvania, binding decision making ability for any school system is solely empowered to the democratically elected board of school directors of that respective school system. I am, however, sincerely concerned with discussions currently taking place that would transform Lenape Vo Tech School from its current full day format to a half day format. For many reasons, I feel this is a mistake and must object.
The full day format enables LVTS to achieve its mission of providing traditional academics as well as adding a top notch vocational training program. This allows LVTS’ students to excel in fields of their own choosing. As an experienced teacher, I submit this is critically important in the success rate of any individual student in any respective school. Ask any educator and you will be told it is undeniable: when the student likes what they are doing, their individual productivity and achievement will increase. Measuring LVTS’ achievement using only PSSA scores is neither an accurate nor a fair measure to the academic/vocational mission LVTS is expected to execute.
The true and valid goal of any educational institution is not to teach its students how to be students but rather how to be productive, contributing citizens. Lenape Vo Tech far exceeds this goal by most often producing one of two outcomes: In the first outcome, the LVTS students enter into career fields that allow them to begin securing their future financial self-sufficiency. In the second outcome, the student chooses to further their education, often in the field they studied at LVTS.
I recently read in the Leader Times an engagement announcement for two Lenape alums who had gone on to graduate from Penn State-one as a civil engineer and the other as a mechanical engineer. These majors are exceedingly demanding and hardly those of “skaters.” The success enjoyed by these two Lenape Vo Tech alums is hardly out of the ordinary. To the contrary, it is more often the norm.
I did not attend Lenape Vo Tech school but would be highly confident of my kids’ futures should they choose to go there. Changing Lenape Vo Tech to a half day format would, in my opinion, be a mistake in that can and should be avoided both for Armstrong County’s students and our taxpayers.
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