[DuncanWaring]

Is it enough to say we have improved our schools by offering more electives, more AP courses, IB classes, and STEM programs?

How about courses that prepare students for careers as plumbers, electricians, A/C mechanics and the like, for those who have no business going to college but still need to be able to keep a roof over their head and food on their table by providing the services that are essential to maintaining modern civilization's infrastructure?

[metmom]

Absolutely.....

[vooch]

bring back industrial arts please

wood shop and metal shop - just the kind we took in jr. high would be enough

I interview young kids for jobs in my small manufacturing company and they have never touched a power tool.

[imardmd1]

The problem is that individuals capable of trade skills don't want to do them any more. From high school they've learned that one does not need to show up for classes or subject themselves to authority.

They can play ball or eat themselves to death, as long as somebody pays for their heat and grocery bill.

And, oh, did I say pay for their sex-enabling, sex-changing, and abortion/abortifacient costs?

[Carl Vehse]

DuncanWaring @2: "How about courses that prepare students for careers as plumbers, electricians, A/C mechanics and the like"

As long as they are prepared to deal with getting into a union, or moving to an open-shop state.

[bgill]

Agree. Plumbers and electricians make more than many degree carrying white collar workers.

[shotgun]

I agree with 100%. They cut out all of the VO-AG classes because everyone is supposed to get a college degree. Now the school districts want some sort of recognition, and more money for building “tech centers” which is a fancy term for VO-AG classes.