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Thunderbeast

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2. Education reform should include vocational tech for all
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 01:23 PM
Feb 2019

We have lost practical life skills focus. It would be useful to build a model that includes a year of hands-on skills training for all....even the college-bound.

I was fortunate to spend two years at a vocational-technical high school. I spent about eight hours per week learning about how stuff works, and how it is made. It was the most useful period of my advanced education.

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