Rubio was promoting vocational training. I was one of the first freshmen girls allowed to attend Albert Lane Technical High School in Chicago. At that time to graduate HS with a math and science major you had to have 2 years of shop training (wood, electrical, machine, foundry, welding, auto or print) . You had to take wood and electric and were assigned (no freedom to choose) two of the remaining shops. You also had to take two years of drafting along with all the math, science courses, English, history, foreign language and PE courses. It was a great education. I have used my shop and drafting training quite a bit.
I work at Ivy Tech in Indiana..welding here is a BIG thing. We have HS kids coming here to get certified. It’s not easy and yes HS boys are idiots..but we also have older students coming here to learn new things, brush up skills.