ALL high schools should be trade schools so the people that want to learn a trade can do that instead of being board with nonsense that doesn't help in everyday life.. Not everyone has the money or the desire to hang around a college and drink themselves into oblivion in a dorm room for four years..
Lets see, in HS i took required English, so i know the difference in board and bored. Math (algebra, geometry, trig, calculus intro). Science (biology, chemistry, physics), French (only foreigners language offered), typing, PE. and art.
We did have the choice to go to a vocational (trade) school instead, but that would have been boring.
I would have liked to have taken wood shop, but didnt have the time. Besides, we had tools at home and i learned woodworking on my own, plus as 4H projects. I learned small engine repair in 4H. I used to rebuild mower engines a lot. Also electrical stuff, i was building electronic items all the time, including soldering together my own power supplies, etc. I also learned construction while a teenager (framing, roofing, electrical, plumbing). I was driving 10 ton dump trucks by the time i was a freshman in college. And front end loaders, dozers. Of course i was driving a tractor much earlier
I still have many of the items i built in HS, like the lamp I'm using now.
I say all this to say it all helped me in everyday life, and none would i call nonsense.
Forgot to mention, i grew up dirt poor. I worked summers to help pay my way in college. And i never drank, but i did have the desire to learn.
