Just learned that our school, Seattle Central, is doing a walk-out next Tuesday in support of funding approval in the Washington State Senate. This is really huge. Stand with us on Tuesday if you can. I'll have more details, but I believe we are meeting at the main campus on Cap Hill at around 10am with the walk-out to happen around noon. (I'll update soon)
#Seattle #SeattleCentral #woodtechcenter #woodworking #carpentry #SaveWTC
Hi! Here's something else I did in #Carpentry school. A window casing and chair rail practice on my drywall module also done this quarter.
Now that I have your attention, #Seattle. Please reblog and come support our Wood Technology Center at the 37th District Town Hall meeting at El Centro de la Raza this Saturday, March 18th.
Address: 1660 S. Roberto Maestas Festival St.
Coffee: 10:00AM - 10:30AM
Town Hall: 10:30AM - 11:30AM
Fight for our trade schools to remain open!
Evidence that I can do a decent job of glazing windows. I find that it helps to be pretty ambidextrous. (Plexiglass used class materials, don't judge the window fogginess)
I mentioned this yesterday, but I wanted to put this back out there that #Seattle Central Community College is proposing cuts to some of our most successful technical training programs. Specifically my carpentry program, the Wood Technology Center.
We are already suffering from a lack of building materials and accessibility to space. I'm feeling this first hand. You have no idea how frustrating that is for someone who is trying to succeed, struggling to keep their head above water, and move up in the world and out of low income housing.
We need builders in Seattle. We need safe builders. We are the future to get the housing needed to lower the unhoused rate and empower our communities in Seattle.
Will you help and sign this petition to save my school?
To our community, We are writing on behalf of the Wood Technology Center, its students, and its faculty to ask for urgent help in keeping this vital institution open. The WTC has been an established place of study and training for aspiring tradespeople for decades. Graduates have an incredible rate of success in finding and excelling in employment. The Center provides training and degree programs in residential carpentry, boatbuilding, pre-apprenticeship construction, and continuing education, as well as making contributions in skilled labor to local housing efforts. The comprehensive, hands-on education that the WTC provides is absolutely unique and produces some of the finest craftspeople in Seattle. Despite its huge success, the WTC is on the chopping block. Without immediate support, all of its programs will end. The budget proposed by the Washington Board of Community and Technical Colleges focuses on retaining and continuing to hire the amazing staff that keeps our school running, repairing and maintaining inadequate facilities, and taking on new projects to provide excellent and accessible curricula to our current and future students. As a satellite school of Seattle Central College, the WTC depends on funding from an institution whose budget is often lacking. With the state budget deadline fast approaching, a budget plan has been submitted to the state legislature to keep Seattle Central College from closing the WTC and several other successful satellite schools. But we need the community’s help—email or call your local legislators and put on the pressure to approve funding to the WTC, voice your support of the budget efforts and keep the future of the trades in Seattle thriving. As students of the WTC, we have created a quick and easy shortcut to contacting your legislators and voicing your support. You have the power to save this critical institution—spread the word, use your voice, and we can save the Wood Tech Center together! Most sincerely, Students of the WTC
Wendy Lady