Bullitt East High School has lost one of its pathways. One of the opportunities to get the education that many students need in order to get to college. The engineering pathway, located at room 102, is not available at the moment, due to not having a teacher.
The plan is to eventually bring the pathway back and put the other kids that were originally in engineering back into that pathway when they get a teacher coming second semester. The administration is currently seeking out a qualified and passionate individual to fill the role by spring semester, to ensure that those students who have joined the engineering pathway will be returning soon.
The future of the engineering pathway will be coming back for the students whose schedules were messed up, given the classroom is currently vacant. Engineers build this world and without the engineering pathway and without the education the people need to be successful, the future generation of engineers won’t be the same.
Multiple students were bummed out over the fact that the engineering pathway had to be dropped from their schedules, and dropped as a whole. Administration and students hope the pathway will be brought back for the second semester. There were multiple reasons that kids at Bullitt East wanted to do the engineering pathway.
Keatin Roach is a senior who has been in the engineering pathway for three years. “I always knew I wanted to do engineering like after high school because I like working with my hands, but also still using my brain. So it was a good mix, and the engineering pathway was a perfect setup for that,” Roach said.
Elijah Williams, a senior, originally joined the engineering pathway for the purpose of going to college. “So originally I was planning to go into engineering as a career, so I really wanted to just see what that would all entail, as far as what you have to do for different job opportunities and stuff like that,” Williams said.
Last year, students were without a teacher for the first weeks of school. Students had a rough time getting the content finished. While on the other hand, some students weren’t paying attention and not doing what they were supposed to do.
“The first full semester was basically self study, which was hard to keep on track, especially with the other students, and they’re being distractions not doing what they’re actually supposed to do,” Roach said.
With students schedules getting changed and with the engineering pathway being dropped, people have started to become discouraged.
Kaden Vogel is a junior. Vogel has been a part of engineering since sophomore year, without a teacher it made it difficult to keep the hope for his schedule. “I think it should be brought back. I just sadly, don’t think I’ll be a part of it. I don’t think I’ll be able to make my schedule work,” Vogel said.
“Without having Capstone, it really makes us lose out on a lot of good experiences that we would have had, because we would have partnered with GE to have our final project, which would have opened a lot of doors for internships past high school,” Keatin said.
The plan is to eventually bring the pathway back and put the students that were originally in engineering back into that pathway when they get a teacher coming in the second semester. The administration is currently seeking out a qualified and passionate individual to fill the role by spring semester, to ensure that those students who have joined the engineering pathway will be returning soon. Many students believe the engineering pathway should be brought back, with opportunities and the learning experience of the people who were really passionate about this pathway.
“I think it’s one of those pathways that a lot of people are going to go into, given just the way the world’s going. Engineers are going to be the people who build the world and if we don’t have the structure to be able to give those kids that educations, we’re going to be behind in every other avenue, because we’re going to be losing so much great students to other schools that have engineering pathways,” Williams said.
