The old college fail.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Vocational training for high school students - Brief article

A couple of years ago, I wrote about how my son, a teacher in a high school in San Bernadino, in southern California, had gradually realized that, despite his efforts to persuade his students to go to college, a significant number of them just weren't interested. They wanted vocational training that would prepare them for the kinds of jobs in which they had an interest and for which they felt they had an aptitude. Unfortunately, that same training wasn't provided by his high school, nor, for that matter, by the great majority of other public high schools--the reason, of course, being that almost all of us have embraced...