HUMBOLDT Humboldts Career and Technical Education program has been putting its students in real-life situations for a number of years. The building trades class is about to finish its two-year home building project, but there is still a lot of work needed to be done.
The biggest challenge is trying to get six classes to communicate, so that the left hand knows what the right hand is doing, instructor Scott Murrow said. We think it is very enriching, because the folks that are over there building the house in my class, may not have any idea at all what it will take to sell the house.
Journalism teacher Kim Isbell said the program connects all the CTE classes.
Her class will be providing a brochure to help sell the house, while the marketing program will provide landscaping. The art department will provide art pieces that will be on display during the open house.
Its basically a school-wide project, Isbell said.
The building portion of the class is on target to be completed by March 5.
We want to build upon what we have done in the past and host a true open house event, Murrow told the schools board of education on Monday night. Graphic design, photography, culinary, everyone will be involved. The culinary class is playing a role in kitchen design.
The teaching pathways class will even provide baby-sitting at the open house.
When the house is completed, they will begin on another home.
Murrow said his class will need more land when the house is completed.
IN OTHER news, Marsha Frederick, food service director, said the new school guidelines for school meal programs were strict and quite challenging. She said elementary student lunches had to fall with 550 to 650 calories, while the middle school had to be between 600 and 700 calories. High school students could have 750 to 850 calories.
Frederick said it was hard to stay within the guidelines because 550 calories is not much for a lunch. However, if the meal is not between those calorie levels or under $3, they lose federal funding for the lunch program.
Frederick estimated they have 75% participation rate in the lunch program.
This is good information for us and for the community, board president Kevin Heisler said. We want everyone to know that we do care about our school lunch programs. We understand kids are coming home and feeling hungry, but we want them to know there is only so much we can do to remain within the federal guidelines. Go outside of those numbers and you lose your federal funding.
