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Originally Posted by crockett
Things have changed quite a bit as well. Schools for instance 50 years ago high school students could go to trade school for part of their schooling. This meant when they left high school they had a skill in which they could get a job. Today, schools treat everyone as if they should go to college. When kids get out of school today,very few of them have any sort of skill to go to work with.
Kids used to leave high school and be employable at machine shops, or construction and so forth, meaning even with out a college education they could get decent jobs. Today, they get a job flopping burgers..
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I don't know if the still have it or not, but when I was in high school in the 80's they had a thing called work experience where seniors could basically take 1-2 fewer classes each semester if they had a job and the job counted as elective credits. They also offered wood shop, metals shop, auto mechanics and other trade skill classes so, in theory, when you graduated you could have some kind of skill and potentially some actual work experience to help you get a job.