Did George W Bush make the decision to kick out the trades or was it the local education authorities? Seems to me both could have accommodated and should have been! Sounds to me like there was another agenda at work or managerial incompetence or both!
> Did George W Bush make the decision to kick out the trades or was it the local education authorities? <
I know quite a bit about this topic. I was teaching at a public high school when Bush II’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ came into force.
It’s all on Bush. He signed it into law. NCLB tested for math and English only. And woe to the school (or the school district) that did poorly in those tests. Schools that did poorly were humiliated. Officials there got no bonuses and no promotions.
So it was a matter of self-preservation. Those local officials tried the best they could to meet the NCLB requirements. That meant concentrating on what NCLB tested for. Everything else was secondary, including the trades.
Bush II did not wreck the trades deliberately. It was just more stupidity on his part, and on the part of those in Congress who pushed for NCLB. They did not think things through. Typical of politicians.