Vocational education has been the ugly duckling of public schooling for years. Allow me to apply the politically correct and cleansed moniker: “career and technical education.”

Decades ago we all took carpentry, auto mechanics or home economics. Most school districts had at least one vo-ed facility where students could graduate prepared for jobs in the building trades.

Recommended Stories

Some of Chicago’s crimes are merely widespread immigration fraud

Will Republicans distance themselves from Trump after the midterm elections?

DC’s most pressing post-midterm question: What to do about Social Security’s pending insolvency?