Very often conversations about vocational education get torpedoed early on by the history in some communities of vocational education being for low-income and/or minority kids. If it's been seen as a "second choice" for kids who have (or should have) other options, then it's difficult to have a real conversation about education that ends in a job at 12th grade for kids who wish or need that option.
The Nation does a solid job of tackling the need for actual vocational education while dealing well with this history. Give it a read. This definitely has implications for what we are and are not doing in Worcester.
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