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Milton-Freewater teacher urges support for CTE program, citing modern equipment and workforce skills
Summary
Scott Pumphrey, a CTE and wood shop teacher at Mac High (Milton-Freewater Unified SD 7), told the meeting that the school's CTE program uses CNC machines and laser engravers and gives students practical, employable skills through a manufacturing pathway run with colleague Mr. Martinez.
Scott Pumphrey, a career and technical education (CTE) and wood shop teacher at Mac High in Milton-Freewater Unified SD 7, told the meeting that CTE classes give students practical, workforce-ready skills.
"CTE classes are important at any school just because it gives students hands on activities, projects to do, and it gives them real world skills that they can take when they graduate," Pumphrey said, listing hands-on projects and career preparation as core benefits.
Pumphrey contrasted traditional woodshop with the district's CTE offerings, noting the program includes "a lot of CNC machines, computer numerical control, laser engravers," and other technology he said were "real world applicable skills" students can graduate with. He said those tools and classes expand beyond woodshop into metal shop, CAD and technology courses.
Pumphrey described a coordinated manufacturing pathway he runs with a colleague, "Mr. Martinez," saying the two instructors "do a real good job in the manufacturing pathway" and that their programs work together across wood shop, metal shop and related classes.
He estimated he has taught at the school "for 8 or 9 years" and argued that students who complete the pathway leave "well rounded," with employable skills they can use in jobs and in everyday life.
The transcript contains only Pumphrey's remarks; no formal actions, votes or decisions about the CTE program are recorded in the provided segment.
