Career Education Lures Top Students
Marc Snyder | Jan 14, 2009 | Comments 0
Kinea White Epps, Staff Writer for Districtadministration.com
Courses under the CTE umbrella have been revamped, tailored to the modern workplace.
An honors student at Athens Drive High School, Monica Matthai had her heart set on becoming an orthodontist, a safe and fitting choice for her academic talents.
That was until she made her first dress in a clothing design class under the school’s career- technical education program. Matthai was hooked by the needle and thread and the thought of seeing her creations come to life on a fashion runway.
Goodbye, dental school. The 18-year-old senior recently was awarded a $48,000 scholarship to study fashion management at N.C. State University.
“I’ve always liked clothes, but I had never seen it more than just shopping,” Matthai said. “I never thought fashion would be my career.”
Matthai is the poster child CTE educators love to tout as proof of the transformation of courses that used to wear the “vocational education” label and catered to students bound for blue-collar jobs instead of college. Think metal shop, auto mechanics or carpentry.
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