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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (106296)6/20/2005 11:47:33 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
It's just amazing how myopic the American public schools are about teaching skilled trades to students. There are not enough jobs that require a college education to employ all the students who go to college! Children who are gifted at auto mechanics or wood working or whatever deserve just as high quality an education as the academically inclined ones.

I don't know if it is the same there now, but when my husband was going to school in Northern Ireland there was a lot more emphasis on trade classes. Children who are not going to college also leave school as early as fifteen, to start apprenticeships, hopefully.
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