Rising Star Dr. Britten Cole: “Why we should bring vocational skills like electrical skills, carpentry, sewing, typing back into public high schools”

…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…