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Originally Posted by cashflyer
The high school that I attended still does.
It's a rural area, and they recognize that only a portion of the kids will go on to college. Many kids expect (and are expected) to go into the workforce. Families in that area do not have the income to send their kids to college.
The high school offers college prep courses, which they call "advanced placement" classes. They also offer shop, drafting, and "home economics". And for those kids who really are going down the workforce path, juniors and seniors only attend half days - spending the other half at a "vocational school".
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Our local high school still has the vo-ed classes. But it seems every year those are the programs that seem to be on the chopping block. School admin seems to think everyone student needs to go to four year college.
Two of my kids took auto shop classes and decided that was their career. They both went into programs that gave them the training they needed after high school. One is a Toyota auto tech the other a diesel tech for our local Cat dealer.