[Sooner or later]

Some big changes coming this fall. Apparently, for the good.

We are taking one of our middle schools, Tomlinson, and turning it into an advanced placement school. We just built a larger middle school to replace an older middle school that will add capacity.

The A P school will offer a ton of advanced and new courses. Sign language and they hope to have a native American language course (no instructor for that at this time) on top of STEM. Any kid in 8th grade or above can take the advanced courses. The A P kids will spend a half day at Tomlinson and then bus back to the regular school for non A P classes.

If a kid does it right they can take college courses at the local university, Cameron, during their junior and senior years. For free. Max it out and they can graduate high school with a college associates degree or at least get a significant number of college credits.

They are also tying in with the local vo tech and the local US Army FISTA technology program. I brought up the FISTA program in an earlier thread. The city bought the local mall and is renovating the old Sears and Dillard's stores to hold defense contractor development. We will have local high school kids working as interns for high tech military contractors.

The school system is also going to work closely with the local TV station and newspaper to develop a high tech communication program between schools and the media. My little sis has been asked to be one of the 3 local teachers that will be involved in the process.

Little sis is really excited and can see great benefit from rhe changes. We will see how it goes.