CA renter: You are quite right about boosting vocational skills in HS and beyond.
60 Minutes had a show Sunday night about a “successful” inner city school in Harlem that attempted to push everyone into being college-bound, and measured their success solely by that metric. While their longer school day, involvement of parents, stress on discipline, use of uniforms is all commendable, their obsession with college for all is appalling. What about the boy who is fascinated with wood and wants to be a master cabinet maker, or the patriotic girl who wants to enlist in the military, or…you get the picture.
To push college on all is to denigrate vocational education, as well as those who want to stop with a HS degree and get on-the-job training and advancement.
