Yesterday, I posted about the clear discrimination that occurs with Career Technical Education (CTE) teachers in California. Today, I want to talk a little more about solutions to the problem, as I’m not usually the type of person to just whine about something. Further, I suspect that most administrators and academic teachers don’t even realize that they are discriminating.
There are two solutions that can help alleviate this problem.
In California, and probably in most other states, there is a clear discrimination that occurs against Career Technical Education, where CTE instructors and students are looked at as second class citizens. While I will share more in the future about this broader problem, today I am going to focus on how the California’s Commission on Teacher Credentialing and School Districts discriminate against Career Technical Education teachers, and how with the loss of ROP, this has meant a huge number of layoffs to these teachers, and could mean a lot more losing their jobs, if this illegal discrimination doesn’t stop.