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Shemp Howard

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2. It should have been a free high school course.

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Sat Dec 29, 2018, 11:31 AM

Dec 2018

Cosmetology, carpentry, etc. should all be offered in the high schools - for free, of course. Then people could learn a trade without incurring ruinous debt.

And at one time the trades were offered in most high schools. But they were all killed of by standardized tests like No Child Left Behind. Now administrators live and die by test scores. And NCLB doesn't test for the trades. So goodbye trades.

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A $21,000 Cosmetology School Debt, and a $9-an-Hour Job [View all] workinclasszero Dec 2018 OP

I have sympathy for the people who incurred all the debt MichMan Dec 2018 #1

It should have been a free high school course. Shemp Howard Dec 2018 #2

Community colleges also offer work-related training in most places. MineralMan Dec 2018 #4

It's a trap a lot of people fall into. MineralMan Dec 2018 #3

Our community college system has a cosmetology program Codeine Dec 2018 #5

+1 and +1 Delmette2.0 Dec 2018 #6