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That's not the system that vo-tech teachers had wanted. They thought that vocational teachers could remain together and offer technical arts classes to all students at CRLS.
"We were going to be the hub and other schools would be the spokes...We thought that was the best of both worlds," Russo says.
Now, most small schools only offer limited technical arts options, since there are not enough teachers in each trade to go around to all five schools.
One exception is school five, which is the only school to require that ninth-graders take a survey course in the technical and fine arts. Students alternate between short units like dance, carpentry, photography and electronics.
If all of the small schools adopted that approach, vo-tech teachers say that might be an improvement over the old system.
"It's probably better because a student has not only the technical arts but other exposure," Russo says.
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