True. The below average should go to college and major in Sociology and Womyn’s Studies. Average and above should learn a trade before they graduate from high school.
Which is the way it was done before the government started regulating us all to death.
Many of hubby's fellow plumbers started out as summertime ditch diggers when they were in school. They weren't formal 'employees', they were just day laborers.
As far as I know, you now have to be 18 just to be on the job site!