re: #295 iceweasel
re: #311 quickjustice
One quick easy solution
BRING BACK VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS
When I was a teen, oh those mant decades ago, the kids that didn’t want to go to college after high school, or already knew they wanted to work in a trade were offered Vocational High School instead of the regular academic/ college prep one. They still had to take and pass English and Math, but then they were trained in a host of “blue collar” fields
plumbing
carpentry
auto mechanics
electrical
Too many kids are in high schools today that
A) don’t really want to be there but it’s mandatory
B) have no aspirations to further their education after high school
which leads to
C) not really being trained for anything after graduation