This is what it says it is, a Technical College, that being said for starters, this is not a place…read moreto go if you are not trying to achieve something. If you want to find your way in life by working with your hands and mind this is a great place to go. Inside those walls of mass confusion, if you focus on what you came for, you will receive far more knowledge, employable knowledge than you could ever imagine. Each and every instructor will take a personal interest in your progression and guide you when you need it. If your scores are up and you don't need any help, well ok then too. No, this is not like going to high school or junior high school. Here, we have, rules and you must follow them. Everything here has a logical reasoning factor. The rules are to prepare you for a good paying job. That is a logical reasoning factor. If you do not like, rules then you will learn to like them. This is how that works, a caring instructor might say to the class, if this week continues as it has since Monday and if your scores are all above a certain average and you maintain your professionalism, we will have pizza brought in for everyone. So here at Ohio Technical College most students are achieving something that you cannot see or, touch but it is there. We seem to find most people enjoy rewards for hard work and that is what we do. If a student is having a problem of any kind his instructor is there just for the asking. There are also many other people that he will know that he or she can go talk to.
One of those things that cannot be seen or touched is responsibility and punctuality. They learn this by being in their class on time every day and having assignments completed on time. We do not punish anyone for not being perfect or for being less than, perfect but we try to instill the benefits of completion. These are mostly young people who want to find their own way in life and stand up on their own two feet and be successful.
Some of them have made some poor decisions and this is their chance for a new beginning and some of them just never had a chance at life due to circumstances and some are in the early stages of maturity, but they will come around. This is a school where people are being prepared for the future and a very good one.
I personally had a class, and I had the honor to teach them their last six months and see them all graduate. One of the students was a class spokesperson and he would ask me questions on behalf of the class. His name was Mr. Heart and I think he had a huge heart. One after noon he raised his hand to ask a question and I quickly called on him. He spoke to me like in words of desperation and this is what he said to me. Mr. Nathanson, this class has one question for you since you will be graduating us. Are we going to get a job before we graduate? Before I tell you what I said to him, please be aware of the fact that most of the students in this class were as big as the average football player. I must also add that very few of them even ever had a real job before in their life. This class of 30 students was comprised of a 30-to-40-year average age and some of them had only one parent.
I looked at Mr. Heart and said to him, Mr. Heart, do you want the real answer, or do you want a fancy answer of fancy words just to satisfy you for the moment.? He looked at me and said no, I just want the truth. Please remember that this man stands 6 foot something and is as wide as a doorway, solid muscle and never had a real job in his life.
So, I said Mr. Heart and class, please listen up. I cannot promise you anything, but I can tell you this, out of the three thousand students that are attending right now this will be the one class that will be getting jobs before you graduate but with the understanding that you will be hired to do work and not be starting as an executive. You will have to be on time just like here and be working diligently just like here in order to keep your job and to have all the things in life you always wanted. This class had become an all A, average right in front of my eyes, so unbelievable! This is the class that when I graded the weekly test for the first time, they would get perfect scores and I even got angry and called them a bunch of cheats, so Mr. Heart made me have the test rewritten and scrambled to prove that no one was cheating. Someone in the print shop did just that and brought the tests to the classroom so that they could take it again. Yes, and they did the same thing, perfect scores. This was advanced electronics, not so simple.
About two weeks before they were scheduled to take their finals two large trucking companies came in to do interviews and hired all of them. I still miss them to this day.
We did not understand our parents all of the time, but we knew that they wanted the best for us, and we trusted them. Ohio Technical College is like doing the right thing for sure.
