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Originally posted by ChuckElias

I think this is probably the best point to make. There's no outcry when a kid gets A's in his body shop class at a vocational technical school and then goes right to work in a body shop after he graduates HS. He's become a productive profitable citizen doing something that he's good at.

Could that be because the goal of vocational HS is to teach a kid something he can be good at so he can graduate & get a job?