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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Way back in the '70s I went to a comprehensive high school that had a wide variety of choices: college tracks, mechanics/ building trades etc, art and music and theater,  hard sciences, etc.

The difference is the kids got to choose the track and were more successful because they picked what they were good at and motivated to do.

That's the model we should return to.

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Restoring vocational-technical schools would be a step in the right direction.

Someone, or some group of people, in the 60’s and 70’s made a huge mistake in eliminating what was once a robust program in public education in the USA.[/quote]

Even in the 1960s, it was a discriminatory program in many districts. Not only were minorities and poor whites shunted toward vocational rather than academic programs regardless of their grades in jr high, but in my dad’s vo tech HS, only white males got to enter the most lucrative paths like electrician and plumbing. White girls and  minorities in vo tech were forced into the lower earning paths.

It stayed that way through the 1960s, until white flight flipped the district and then, it was largely defunded because more minorities could get seats in the academic high schools. [/quote]

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