The Day Care
The nursery has been in operation for five years at Oceana High School and it provides a day care program for students children as well as teach basic parenting skills to parents.
Mother's bring their children to the day care as soon as they get to school in the morning and a Nursery Supervisor (Laura Anderson)and nursery aide (Frances Colston) supervise a nursery that is staffed by the children's mothers, fathers, and student aides.
Mothers, along with student aides, spend one hour of their day working in the day care room. Mothers are also responsible to come to the day care room and feed their child during lunch.
The nursery staff's role is to provide training for the teenage parents as well as providing a pleasant and safe environment for the young children during the day. Students of young children are required to take a parenting class during the year to help them become successful parents.
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In the fall of 1999 a long time dream became reality. A Building Trade's program was added to the school day so that students could learn building skills by building houses in the area. Partnered with Habitat for Humanity, students work three hours a day on the job site provided by Habitat for Humanity.
In 1999 OHS hired Bill Stone, a Vocational Education teacher certified by the State Department of Education, specifically to teach the class. Stone also has the additional credentials of a State of Michigan residential builders license. The concept of the program is to provide classroom instruction and to get students actively involved with hands-on experience at a site to prepare them for a productive career in building trades. The students spend an average of four days a week at the building site. The rest of the week is spent in the classroom preparing the students to receive certificates in wood materials, fasteners, power tools, the systems of floor, roof, walls and ceilings, windows, doors, and basic safety. Here they work with a textbook developed by the National Center for Construction and Research. They will receive 90 hours of classroom instruction at the end of one year. To get a certificate, the students combine their classroom studies with additional hours of on-site experience. |
