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.
George W. Bush is responsible for much of that. His ‘No Child Left Behind’ Law emphasized math and English, but ignored the trades. Out went the trades, to be replaced by more math and English classes.
So kids who wanted to learn a trade were stuck analyzing poetry instead.
Sheet!! We shot .22’s at targets in the basement @ H.S.
“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.
Trade classes vanished because parents wanted their kids to be internet millionaires rather than plumbers.
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!