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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on their abilities.  If they are a top student, high test scores, etc. and can get into a great college, I’d be disappointed.

If they are a mediocre student, I’d fully support trade school.

It isn’t that one path is better than the other, but I would want my child to find a path that suits their abilities and talents.  Yes the world needs great plumbers and welders, but it needs great doctors and computer programmers too[/quote]

People throw around being a doctor like anyone can do it as long as they have top scores.    That’s not true.   It takes a certain type of person to become a doctor, a certain personality type.    And anyone  interested in working with their hands would be bored to death sitting in front a computer.

There are students who want badly to be a doctor and they work hard towards.   There are students who want to build things or fix things, that’s where their talents and abilities are even if they were valedictorian.

Welders who work industrial can earn $200,000 after experience.   It’s plain snobbery to be upset at your kid having a goal as welder.   I’d be happy. [/quote]

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