The small state on Connecticut has 19 current agricultural high school programs and one currently being built. These schools take applications from designated towns to help fill their program. Students from the town the agricultural program is still needs to apply and has the potential to not be accepted. Once the student applies, interviews at the school and gets accepted they will then be apart of that new towns district.
The student then takes agriscience classes as well as their general education classes for all four years at that new school. Some schools have tracks for students to follow and some allow students to pick their own tracks and mix and match their classes. Connecticut ,unlike Pennsylvania, is not an affiliated state with the FFA so, membership is dependent on the chapter and student. Currently there are about 3,200 FFA members which means we have more students in agricultural education that that since the state isn't affiliated.
What I find to be very unique in Connecticut is the number of agriculture teachers in Connecticut. Connecticut has 144 teachers (including 18 supporting staff ie. Secretaries and para educators) working at 20 schools. Each school has about 4-5 teachers minimum. This allows teachers to teach specific fields such as veterinary science, plant science, aquaculture and so much more. Each teacher in Connecticut will be hired( most of the time) to teach within an area of agriculture instead of general agriculture.This allows for huge diversity in agricultural programs in Connecticut.
Connecticut has some unique features to their agricultural education system that makes the small state be able to offer a wide range of opportunities in agriculture to their students. The differences between the state vary in the structure of their programs and amount of teachers per program.
What are some unique traits of your states agriculture industry and agricultural education system?
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