Senator Stutts welcomes students to State Legislature, honors their achievements on Senate floor
MONTGOMERY – On Thursday, Senator Larry Stutts welcomed students from Russellville High School’s engineering rocket team to the State Capitol, and honored their recent national championship with a Senate resolution he presented to the team on the Senate floor.
“It was a privilege to present a Senate resolution to these hard-working
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students,” said Senator Stutts. “Their teachers, along with coach Mark Keeton, have done an excellent job in guiding their educational process. A national championship in rocket engineering is quite a feat.”
The seven-member team won the national Team America Rocketry Challenge in Virginia earlier in May, and heads to Paris, France, in June to compete in the International Rocketry Challenge at the Paris Air Show where they will compete against teams from Britain, France, and Japan.
The Russellville High School team includes Katie Burns, Niles Butts, Andrew Heath, Cristian Ruiz, Cady Studdard, Chelsea Suddith, and Evan Swinney.
The Senate resolution authored by Senator Stutts and signed by Lt. Governor Kay Ivey.
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How come the governor couldn’t come through? Too busy? For education standards in alabama and these fine young individuals designed produced and launched a missile. This is outstanding. For russelville al a town that the entertainment is walmart and driving for the next hour to a better place. For a school that spent over a million for a football stadium gym and other accessories. Don’t get me wrong russelville is a fine school system. The smartest people I’ve met came from there. But why not overhaul STEM teaching and fundings? Schools around the state are too overly obsessed with common core, thats fine common core is what it is a uniform standard, how about AL gets on the ball and abolish this and set the standard twice as high? With AL being one of the best states for STEM why not make it accessible for all students to have the same level of education above the bar? I went from one high school that was incredible well funded and had the opportunity, then was expelled and went to another school which barely could keep the temperature at 67 degrees during the winter. This school system only had emphasis on sports. The school didnt offer high levels of of calculus and they badly had anyone for differential calculus. Let alone classical physics. At the time I thought id go for finance accounting, now Im a stem major. If the standard was I had to do at least physics and differential calculus maybe I would’ve bet better set for my major now. I’ve taught GED students algebra, some who either never learned in high school or hadn’t used any of it within 10 years, and was able to effectively teach them in a month. How come we can’t keep the standard we have now then have classes above the standard in which there are no grades per say? If we just have them learn and learn then evaluate them at a certain point. Then just teach them in a no holds environment no grade restrictions just make sure they actually learn instead of mindlessly chew information and spit it out during tests? Just make sure every Alabamaian can learn actually learn. Learn whats important. And sure there will be people say “Oh well thats too much resources for something we can’t measure” Well what price do we put on future citizens? Why can’t school systems that have crumbling infrastructure be fixed immediately ? Why can’t all schools provide education in which all students at least get the chance to learn above the standard that the federal government has set? If a white collar beuracrat throws out “it’s funding issue” then it’s really simple I guarantee that there are areas in the system that waste. Start with their pocket books. All in all if we want a system to be proud of lets start by making it better instead of pussy footing around. College, secondary education from trade school to university any and all degrees shouldn’t cost a dime in the state for all state residents. It could happen tomorrow if not for the suits red tape and difficulty of government legislature. But I digress. Good job kids, all of you deserve full ride scholarships towards the any university anywhere. Continue education live your lives to the fullest, never stop at the bar take the bar with you and continue to exceed.