In the continuing push for all high school grads to go to university, the lack of many 'shop' type classes in schools, it seems kids are being shoved into 'high end only' type careers, even before they know what they actually want to pursue.

I still believe that adding another 2 years to 'high school' with more focused studies on math/science/engineering/trades before shoving kids in the expensive and sometimes not so educational world of for-profit universities, would be worth the local taxpayers investment.

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He is definitely on the right track. It will be a long, long time before computers replace construction workers. It would take some very skillful robots just to walk around a construction site, let alone run electrical and plumbing, framing, roofing, even hanging doors.

Architects would be the first ones to get replaced IMO. As it is now, they do very little. I have been in commercial construction for 35 years, Architects used to do their jobs very well, but in the last 10-15 years they have done very little. Most job plans now consist of a floor plan and details and specifications copied and pasted from other projects.

They require contractors like myself, to put it all together and make it work.

Construction is not a black and white skill set. Every job has to be managed differently, and no two jobs are the same.

They build thousands of McDonalds, Walgreens, etc. They are all similar, but all require very different variables and methods for construction.

I have worked on most of the big casinos in Las Vegas as an estimator and project manager. They all required never ending changes and revisions, nothing was black and white.

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who specifically is pushing for that?

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Parents, secondary schools, colleges, employers....

More and more disdain for the trades in society as a whole.

If there isn't a push for kids going to college, then why are people demanding that it be 'free'? Why are parents/kids willing to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt?

You yourself have supported the idea of 'free college'. So in specifics, YOU are pushing for that.

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In Salty's defense, she pushes for anything that she doesn't have to pay for.

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Of course... she doesn't have an income anymore if I remember correctly, there for she is on the receiving end. Why would she care what others have to pay, so she can get hers?

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I don't hear it. but then I don't believe everything I see on tv.
we can't get the legislature to do votech or college prep though parents are trying.

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Translation: I don't believe anything I don't agree with.

It's not up to the legislature, that is a function of the individual school boards.

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