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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
No.
There shouldn't be trade and academic tracks. Having honors courses and trade classes in high school are close enough to that. In my high school, there were kids bused to a trade school after lunch.
High schoolers can't predict their future. They may notice that they do well in trades versus honors courses, and they may even like that option. But how they perceive their future has a lot more to do with what they're presented with as options. Poor kids, kids with learning disabilities, kids who are bored in school, etc. will think this means that college and academic careers aren't options for them. Parents and teachers need to let kids know that their futures aren't set in stone at birth. And their futures may very well defy what they, and everyone around them, assumed to be their futures.
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My high school was similar.
First 2 years you took basic academic courses that were required and last two years along with that, we had specialized courses along our career track and then certain days of the week, work study.
Oddly enough back 2 comments ago...about extending middle school to 10 grade... not just 20 to 25 years ago, we took 9th grade out of middle school and put it in high school....so who knows...maybe we should move it back
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