CB>  MS>     Different types of businesses need _different_ 
CB>  MS> skills from new employees. 
CB>  
CB> Most plumbers I know have to be able to write orders, figure costs, 
CB> order 
CB> pipes-more than quite a few do not have secretaries, 
    True.
    But some successful plumbers I represent can't spell worth anything as 
they manage to do all these things.
CB> is no
CB> way for the education system to set up a bulldozer school, a road 
CB> grader 
CB> school, - etc.. 
    School systems used to run college-prep and vocational high schools.
    The vocational high schools taught specific skills.  Now we have 
"all-purpose" high schools that pretend to succeed in teaching both the kid 
going to Harvard next year and the carpenter apprentice, and it doesn't work 
well.  We have a job market where you can't find enough repairmen for 
lawnmowers, but underemployed college grads abound.
CB> I have long taken the position that we need good trade schools within 
CB> our 
CB> HS program-but that takes $, an automotive shop might take $100-$150k 
    I take the position that whole separate vocational programs are needed, 
rather than one or two classes each year grafted into a standard liberal-arts 
curriculum.
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