Elourine Alspach, a retired educator/guidance counselor writes today about the jewel called the STC or the Secondary Technical Center. She begins:
Tom Boman’s common-sense solution for Duluth’s public school building plan could include another paragraph (“Take the best of two plans to make a better plan,” April 12). There is much mention of Central High School’s vast property, with enough parking and great outdoor facilities, but no one mentions the Secondary Technical Center which shares the Central campus and was built at great taxpayer expense.
My son took one of the few classes he valued at the STC. This is true of a great many of the STC students. If education is meant to be an experience which broadens one’s horizons the STC fits the bill. The Red Plan says it will create two separate STC’s, one at each remaining high school, but the effect is to limit our students horizons and kill off programming. Its currently being described as a money drain.
This writer isn’t entirely accurate. Other people have been commenting on STC programs. Here’s a nice story on one of them from Saturday’s Budgeteer.
