ericm979
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Social skills are important! There's not many jobs where you don't need them.
My jr high had a killer shop. High school had an auto shop, a photography lab, electronics lab, and even aeronautics courses. And a computer lab, in the '70s using teletypes and paper tape. I took all of that except auto shop. But we have cut funding for education so much that those things are gone except in some wealthy districts.
What really sets people up for life is teaching them to learn on their own. I didn't really get that until college but I have been using it ever since. It enabled me to switch careers when my first one didn't pan out and keep learning stuff in my field.
My jr high had a killer shop. High school had an auto shop, a photography lab, electronics lab, and even aeronautics courses. And a computer lab, in the '70s using teletypes and paper tape. I took all of that except auto shop. But we have cut funding for education so much that those things are gone except in some wealthy districts.
What really sets people up for life is teaching them to learn on their own. I didn't really get that until college but I have been using it ever since. It enabled me to switch careers when my first one didn't pan out and keep learning stuff in my field.