Jim Kerr Wins State Award
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academic credits for vocational vocational agriculture since 1967,
courses teaching academic skills when he began his career at
such as math and science. Parkland High School. He later
“I feel real good about it,” Kerr taught at Warwick High School for
said of the award. “Agriculture a year, before moving to Lancaster
must receive some recognition County Vo-Tech Schools in 1976. In
that is positive because we’ve been addition to his position as a hor
receiving so much negative ticulture teacher, Kerr owns a
publicity in the last several nursery and raises Christmas
years.” trees.
Kerr said he belives many
people don’t support vocational
education because they don’t
understand it. But as a leader in
his field, Kerr says he believes
students graduating from
vocational programs have a lot of
job opportunities awaiting them.
The education they receive in
vocational programs prepares
them for employment by teaching
skills through doing, and learning
to give a day’s work for a day’s
pay.
He is a member of the American
Vocational Association, the
National and State Vocational
Agriculture Teachers
Associations, and the Penn
sylvania Vocational Association.
He is past president of the Lan
caster County Vocational
Agriculture Teachers Association
and is a member of the FFA
Foundation board of trustees.
Kerr and his wife, Virginia, live
in Peach Bottom with their two
sons, James Michael and Michael
Kerr has been teaching Patrick.
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