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Originally Posted by 33girl
Many schools do still offer business/agriculture/shop/votech curricula in high school. The problem is getting it through the parents' thick head that their kid is more suited for that than they are to go to college.
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I'd guess it's much closer to "some" than "many" - regardless, though, if it's a "tracked" program then it's much harder for parents to argue ... particularly if they're forced to buy into the program from the start.
America has cultural issues that work against it, but similar programs work well in other parts of the world. At some point, we have to get over the ultra-American ideal of telling a child with narrow options that they can do anything.