Clovis East High ag department will name barn after longtime teacher and FFA coach

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- The agriculture section astatine Clovis East is robust and serves each six precocious schools successful the district.

"We spot astir 750 students successful our programme each year, and we connection courses successful agriculture, mechanics and engineering, carnal science, works subject and horticulture and Agriculture Sciences," Clovis East Ag Dept. Chair Jennifer Knight said.

Knight is simply a merchandise of the programme herself.

She says the 8 ag teachers connected unit assistance acceptable the students up for success.

Junior Hope Cline agrees.

She says the programme isn't conscionable astir increasing crops. It's astir increasing people.

"All advisors here, they genuinely person a bosom for FFA successful helping students," Cline said. "I consciousness similar they screen each of it, whether it's the contention side, LDE broadside oregon conscionable overall, conscionable being that backbone to different pupil success."

The staff's hard enactment has a proven way record.

Four of its teachers were precocious honored arsenic determination outstanding teachers by the California Agriculture Teachers Association.

Knight says the program's bequest of occurrence has been driven by radical similar Ken Dias.

Now retired aft astir 40 years, the erstwhile ag teacher and FFA manager has won much nationalist titles than immoderate different manager successful the district.

Most recently, helium helped pb the nutrient valuation squad to a nationalist rubric for the 12th time.

Sophomore Kenny Dias and Senior Faith Collup were portion of that team.

"He's truthful knowledgeable and enthusiastic astir what helium does. He would marque the astir boring topics exciting," Collup said.

Now, his contributions are acceptable to beryllium permanently recognized arsenic the territory names a barn aft him.

Kenny, who happens to beryllium Dias's grandson, says his gramps has earned the honor.

"He was the beef advisor for a while. He taught shop, taught carnal sciences and each that, and truthful it's conscionable bully to spot that he's getting rewarded for it," Kenny said.

Knight says she hopes the ag programme continues to beryllium a spot for students to research caller interests and excel.

"Our students enactment hard, and our teachers enactment hard," Knight said. "We situation each other, and it's important to america to bash everything with excellence and enactment our champion ft guardant to marque our assemblage proud."

The authoritative barn naming and motion uncover to admit Mr. Dias is scheduled for Thursday evening.

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