Trammart News Service
INDEPENDENCE — Sitting at a desk is nearly impossible for many high school students. And for some, it’s the biggest barrier to graduation — unless rescue arrives in the form of hands-on education.
Just ask some community leaders whose academic disinterest once nearly crushed them: a board member from Central School District; a Polk County Commissioner; and a Portland-based expert on learning outcomes who earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley — but only after being saved from high-school boredom by getting involved in building and construction.
It comes as no surprise to any in this trio that students who have a hard time with traditional school are finding success at a program in Independence that provides a different route for getting an education.
Located in a wing of the Henry Hill Education…
