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To: epicure who wrote (106296)	6/19/2005 11:55:24 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

but unfortunately the rest were of the "everyone should be planning on college" mindset, Way to prevalent IMO. Can't believe how these kids are pushed to go off to college to get a degree in history or something like that so they can stock liquor store shelves when they complete. Nothing wrong with taking an apprenticeship and earning a good wage while you learn but it just isn't pushed as an option by many guidance counselors. I'm glad that many of your seniors are going the non college route.

To: epicure who wrote (106296)	6/20/2005 11:47:33 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.