Charlotte County School Superintendent/ Charlotte Technical Center: Let us continue our Medical A...

Hello, my name is Shay La Price, and I am-was in a two year Medical Assisting Program at the votec. I thought I would be a certified Medical Assistant by next year when I graduated school. Unfortunately three days ago, they told us they no longer wanted to continue our program due to “budget cuts”. If money is an issue, then why did they buy Ipads they no longer let students use anymore, and build an entire café on the bottom of the votec? Too add more fuel to the fire, the only class they are doing this too is the Medical Assisting class because it’s” new”. There are many students who next year thought our program would have already been accredited like they promised and swore up and down they would in 2010-2011, and there are 2nd year students who were supposed to be Certified M.A.’s this year because they promised them that it would get done. No longer can we do this, because once again they lied to them as well, and now two years of their life is wasted. All of us both the 2nd years and 1st just want to finish our program, and know that some of us did not waste one or two years of our education. In the second year class I believe 7 are involved, but not sure. In the first year there are 14 of us. Here is a list of some of the students involved.