Forgot to add that some of the courses added were the following
Outdoor Adventures (counts as PE but you can only imagine the S-Show this is)

Law Enforcement Class (Students travel off campus to the towns Police Department for class......)

Culinary (another one that travels off campus to the newly built cafe/classroom building near downtown)

Pre-Education & Pre-Nursing - for students interested in either pathway in high school. Nursing I get because I went to a school years ago where Nursing was a primary program and we had students get real experience. But the education pathway....yeah right.

Wood Shop - This one hit home for me and I was thoroughly excited this was brought back, but the "funding" received from having more CTE programs did not go here for the first 3 years and they were using equipment that was not up to code and old. Super Dangerous.

What I am getting at is I am all for these programs, as long as it freaking leads to something the kids are able to benefit from. What it ends up becoming is a super dumping ground for students who have no earthly clue what they want to do or they simply do not care about school to begin with.

Districts benefit financially more if the students make it to the 3rd and 4th levels in HS. If they don't and are simply bouncing between intro classes, district ends up losing money in the long run.

Rant over. God speed.