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Written by Roxanne Kruger
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Saturday, 23 February 2008 16:06 |
Two years ago one of my classes had a discussion about prestigious colleges. My teacher brought up such schools as Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Stanford. As she asked us for our opinions of a “prestigious college” someone shouted out MATC. Between pretentious laughter she replied, “No I have a better one. ITT Tech!”
To me these comments were rude and uncalled for. If the lesson plan required us to name top end universities that is one thing, but for a teacher to go along with such a tactless joke upset me. Local technical schools such as MATC, ITT Tech, and WCTC may be incomparable in prestige to Yale or Harvard, but the reality is these schools are the training and the next step after high school for many Shorewood students and their relatives, and it is unfair for students and teachers to belittle them.
MATC offers a wide range of technical degrees you can receive such as: Interior design, nursing, photography, early childhood education, and fire protection technician. In one year MATC campuses serve 57,000 full and part-time students. Nine people from our senior class have already applied there. Also, MATC is noncompetitive in admissions, so it gives all people the opportunity to further their education and improve their grades. My aunt graduated from MATC from their OR Tech program. She now works for a Cardiac Surgeon on a heart team in Milwaukee performing dozens of heart surgeries each month.
On that day my teacher and select classmates sat around and scoffed at how MATC was not good enough, while in the meantime my aunt could have been saving someone’s life. We should not judge what school people want to attend to continue their education. Instead we should support and encourage people to have the desire to continue to learn. It is necessary to realize that technical schools educate many important people in our community; they are nothing to look down upon.
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