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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mostly Wakefield students looking for a different environment and didn’t get into IB or HB.

More boys than girls, looking to go into trades [/quote]

Son is at Tech and I don't get this sense at all. Well, maybe more boys than girls, but it doesn't seem like the student population is coming from the Wakefield zone or that they're looking to go into trades. It's a STEM program with access to the very cool and diverse offerings at ACC. It's project-based learning, so concepts are not taught just in the abstract. We love it so far. [/quote]

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This is not the Career Center program.  It is a very rigorous academic program with lots of dual enrollment opportunities.  Students also have much more access to the CTE classes at the Career Center because the AT program itself doesn't offer a lot of electives.  That's great for the AT students, not so great for the comprehensive high school students who have more limited access to those classes now.

APS has done a terrible job of explaining and promoting this program to parents.  It is NOT A TRADE SCHOOL CURRICULUM.  It is NOT a bunch of kids wanting to opt out of Wakefield.  Graduates have been going to prestigious colleges (there have only been one or two graduating classes so far); and students can graduate high school with up to 30+ college credits depending on what courseloads they took throughout their 4 years.[/quote]

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