A Jan. 25 commentary by Dan Shortridge in the Cape Gazette, titled “Eight ways to lift up grads who aren’t going to college,” caught my attention for many reasons.
As a teacher in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, I witnessed many students who had no desire to further their education at a four-year institution, and they felt left out or even made to feel less than important than their classmates. When my own classmates began to search for more prominent schools than the one I could afford, I felt their snobbery.
Published in Cape Gazette on February 20, 2022.
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