Next they’ll be teaching home making and auto repair... /S
I hope so!
We didn’t have Auto repair, but we had electronics and we had trade school curricula. For driver’s license we took courses in Automotive Systems, map reading, auto check up, tire changing etc...
My worthless high school was a dedicated college prep one.
If you weren’t in going to college, you weren’t much in the eyes of the principal and his lackeys.
About a little over half weren’t, including me, for all kinds of reasons.
The only useful thing offered was three years of auto mechanics or Ag.
My school district was the richest in the state at the time.
They didn’t do anything except push football, band, and cheerleading for anything outside of academics.
I’ve never gone to a reunion and no interest in going. From bits I have heard over the years, there is only a small bloc of attendees going to them. Most of the names I heard I really have no desire to talk to.
I've often wondered why necessary knowledge isn't taught in high schools, instead of crap. Almost six decades ago, I was in auto-shop classes, as well as having taken metal-shop and wood-shop in middle school. Also was fortunate to be selected in middle school to attend an electronics class held at a high school. They don't teach any of this stuff to kids nowadays. My wife took typing and economics classes in high school. What we learned then helped us in our adult lives and made us successful.