Originally Posted by
ThatOwlWoman
I agree 100% with that bolded bit. We desperately need to remove the stigma of trade schools and fund them fully, and encourage people who have no interest in academics to consider a trade instead. Just look at the lack of quality daycare providers to see that this is a needed investment in our future.
If you ever deal with tradespeople in a country with a well developed trade school system, it really is night and day. America is way behind in trade schools.
We do well with community colleges, so you can get lower academic education at any point in your life. We sometimes try to extend those into trade schools, but it is not even close. Even the high schools that claim to be trade schools really are not compared to what happens in other parts of the world.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Paul Begala, "Politics is show business for ugly people."
Stephen Colbert, "Reality has a well known liberal bias."
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