It's not so much the schools that don't value the trades, it's the higher ups on the school board. I went to a trade school for high school. It had a very good reputation for students getting hired after they graduated because they had lots of practical experience going in. In the mid 90's the number of students enrolling seriously declined. There was talk of turning the school into a regular high school, to save on the cost of building a new school, for the increased population but that was put on hold for a few years. I firmly believe that what happened was the school counsellors that went to Jr. High schools to talk about different high schools and career choices, stopped pushing the trades. School enrollment goes way down and it makes a much easier decision to turn the trade school into a regular high school. My welding teacher said it was a real shame to turn it from a trades school to what they now call a science and technology school. All the welding, machine shop, sheet metal, automotive, plumbing, carpentry, etc, etc. tools were sold off. The school used to build truck campers and even had a service station complete with gas pumps as part of the automotive shop. The welding shop built a tandem axle horse trailer with the sheet metal shop doing the roof and sides. How many high school kids could do these kind of projects today? Dave
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