Thinking Inside The Box

Can our public school system be innovated from an educational system to an indoctrination system? Or is that oxymoronic?

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In my last post I wrote about the school promotion video Building Project Overview in which Superintendent. Kahler says “Our goal is to complement not to compete” and then talks about becoming a satellite of an unidentified regional technical and education center, setting the tone with marine trades and outdoor leadership courses, followed by “ we also want to increase community access while maintaining security”.

Do the proponents of the 100 million dollar school want to increase open access to their facilities as a local school or do they want to increase controlled access as a state corporation? The Maine educational system seems to be in an identity crisis. It doesn’t know what it is anymore.

Beyond being generally included in marine trades and outdoor activities, there is no thought of the effect on the local community of innovating our public high school into an industrial training center as I first thought Mr. Kahler’s comment intended but upon further reflec…