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vocational skills like electrical skills, carpentry, sewing, typing back into public high schools”

9 min readJun 19, 2019

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…I advocate bringing vocational skills (electrical, carpentry, sewing, typing) back into public high schools. These skills once gave people opportunities to have a career out of high school, particularly those not going to college. It also set other graduates on a clear career path once they entered college. In order to learn these skills nowadays, you have to pay to go to a vocational school. Well, a lot of folks that learned these skills in high school did so because they couldn’t pay for college/higher education but now they’re being expected to take out loans to pay for these once free classes. It’s a cycle of keeping certain groups of people “down” or indebted because a large number of these kids can’t afford college nor can they afford…

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Yitzi Weiner
Yitzi Weiner

Written by Yitzi Weiner

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator

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