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Pekin CSD 303 to add prerequisite for new construction trades curriculum after uptick in discipline
Summary
Administrators said the district will add a new construction trades curriculum that requires a prerequisite, citing an uptick in student discipline and instructor concern; the current Health Occupations room will be converted into a construction tech lab.
The committee heard that the district will add a new construction trades curriculum that will include a prerequisite. Minutes state this change is a response to "an uptick in discipline, and the instructors are frustrated," prompting a requirement intended to reduce classroom management issues.
Minutes further note that the current Health Occupations room will be converted into a working lab for construction tech and that related shop upgrades — including a dust collection system revision and an addition to Beau Sheppard's room — are planned for the summer. No policy text, course description, or approval vote was recorded at the meeting; the curriculum change was presented as a staff recommendation to be implemented administratively.
