NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1180

SENATE BILL 563

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A PROGRAM OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE GRADES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

WHEREAS, students need more opportunities and assistance for appraisal of their own abilities, potential, interests, desires, and needs; and

WHEREAS, students need to identify vocations available in their present communities and explore occupational trends relative to a mobile work force; and

WHEREAS, educational experiences need to be made more relevant to the students and more closely identified with the world of work; and

WHEREAS, the dropout problem in our schools is of serious concern and the middle school years appear to be the most crucial period for correcting this situation;

NOW, THEREFORE,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The State Board of Education shall develop, upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, pre-vocational and industrially-oriented practical arts programs for the middle grades of the public school system as funds appropriated for this purpose will permit. A program of instruction interwoven into the curriculum, providing a thorough introduction to the world of work, may also be developed for the lower grades.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1969.