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There really isn't much to say that hasn't already been said here. It is a good idea that some place in K-12 that every child gets some exposure to Home Econ, Shop Classes AND BUSINESS Classes so that they know how to balance a checkbook and or write a letter. These type of classes round out an indivdual, provide some experience and are as important life skills as the readin, writin and rithmatic.

Everybody in America can get a College education and have the GOOD LIFE so everybody has to try.... Americans are just not the same generation of people that practiced self reliance, responsibility and knew their limitations. One is a believer in education as in you can never have too much and in reality it is a life long process.

The true failure of the American education system is that the US has industrialized the education process , trying to turn out uniform Units in which all the Units have passed a quality control test. .It will not be until we understand that we are teaching INDIVDUALs who each have a UNIQUE POTENTIAL and not a HERD of all alike Units that we can truly start to educate our young. Some place along the line we have forgotten about peoples indivduality, by trading in our name for a number in society.