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Do you really think high school should be teaching students how to hang drywall and install a toilet?

Why not? I don't think it's too much to ask that the education system makes sure students have at least some (one or two) marketable skills that they can trade for income. I'm not asking for trade school level knowledge, but for example - how many students know why sinks have drain pipes with the little roller coaster bend in them? Or maybe they could learn enough about electricty to fix a lamp or install a switch?

[AnAmericanMother]

Keep 'em away from electricity until they know how to run a Fluke tester.

That stuff can kill you.

I am the world's most careful electrician, I learned from my father and husband. My father and mother built their first house, all except pouring the slab and the roofing work. When we built our first house, the electrician took one look at my husband's work and told his helper he could go home! (Saved a buncha bucks. We did the wiring at night and the electrician tidied up during the day -- basically we paid him for his license.)