The Career Pathways Program impacts eighth graders. Throughout the school year, guidance counselors and teachers introduce Career Pathways to students and their parents so that by spring these same students are prepared to declare their Career Pathway to follow during high school. The first few years of college the courses were pretty standard but by your junior and senior years the classes were geared more specifically to your major. Well, our Pathways program is along the same lines. Eighth graders will declare a Pathway to follow in high school.
Students then gear their major and elective classes to better reflect their career interests.
This is a program designed to keep kids focused on their studies and to see a connection between their career interests and their studies. In seventh and eighth grade, students can add interscholastic sports to their 'extras' program. In seventh grade students get a taste of foreign languages. This introductory approach allows each middle school student to receive basic instruction in German, French, Spanish and Latin for nine weeks during the course of the year. By providing this introduction, student have a reasonable background and basic knowledge of all four languages.