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Re: The STEM Pipeline is Broken

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
To me, things will start improving when education as a whole can embrace the following:
This list is beautiful.
Thank you for taking the time to write it out! Unfortunately in California (and every other state I assume), the focus is more on protecting status quo than pushing for progress.

I recently tried to convince my site admin we needed to offer a ROP engineering course (or multiple). I was told that to teach CTE courses you need "industry experience". Which excludes me because I only have a BS in Physics and 6 years of FRC experience.

I have one assistant principal (and maybe the principal) who are willing to fight for district support of robotics/STEM education. Maybe this will be the year...
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