“You’re on the right track there. Public high schools once had vibrant trades programs. Wood shop, metal shop, etc. Most of those classes are gone now.”
Schools have no one to teach those subjects.
> Schools have no one to teach those subjects. <
It all goes back to Bush II, as I noted in my post #7. I was teaching physics at a public high school when Bush’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ law first took hold. The district quickly let all the trades instructors go. The trades teachers were there. They just weren’t “needed”.
This was not the fault of the district. NCLB forced their hand. NCLB was brutal in its scoring. Woe to the district that didn’t score well in math and English. This forced the districts to add more math and English classes. Something had to be eliminated to make room for those extra classes. It was the trades that went.