I'm a Gen X who grew up in San Francisco. Everything was slowly phased out because of "budget cuts". But then CA is just insane when it comes to schools. When my Gen Z daughter was in school in CA (not SF but in the Bay Area) we had annual fundraisers to hire PE teachers and computer instructors. Gee, shouldn't the high property taxes cover that? You'd think so but no 🤬
I'm a Gen X as well. We still had "Vo Tech" with woodworking, welding, auto mechanics, and a few other things. We even had a special campus in my town that was ONLY for the Vo Tech kids.
They didn't cut the budget they repurposed it towards hiring administrative staff to deal with the bullshit regulations coming out of the Department of education. Since then we've had like a 700% increase in the amount of administrative staff and it's all because they're needed to deal with the stupid fucking bullshit regulations coming from the bloated and corrupt Department of Education. They create more regulations in order to create more jobs to deal with the regulations. They create a problem and then they send over pallets of money and say Here's the solution to the problem we created.
Started to phase out by mid 90's and under Bush's No Child Left Behind act of 2004 vocational classes were really hard to find in high schools. By 2009 Congress passed a College readiness act that required states to report the number of kids who graduated HS and then went on to college. High schools were incentivized to offer more college prep courses but the budget was the budget...no money in the budget for vocational classes..
I graduated in the mid 80's and was required to take home economics, sewing, or some sort of shop class...oh, and typing. I still use what I learned in wood shop to this day...don't ask me to solve an algebra problem though.
Who took them out of the schools and when? asking for a fren.
I'm a Gen X who grew up in San Francisco. Everything was slowly phased out because of "budget cuts". But then CA is just insane when it comes to schools. When my Gen Z daughter was in school in CA (not SF but in the Bay Area) we had annual fundraisers to hire PE teachers and computer instructors. Gee, shouldn't the high property taxes cover that? You'd think so but no 🤬
The Calif Lotto was also sold as a way to fill in the funding gaps in schools.
Instead, the grifters in Sacto, took all that Lotto money and cut the schools budget by the exact amount schools were supposed to get from the Lotto.
But, that is also ignoring the fact that Calif pays far more per student and has worst results than most of the rest of the country.
I'm a Gen X as well. We still had "Vo Tech" with woodworking, welding, auto mechanics, and a few other things. We even had a special campus in my town that was ONLY for the Vo Tech kids.
It was all gone a few years after I graduated.
They didn't cut the budget they repurposed it towards hiring administrative staff to deal with the bullshit regulations coming out of the Department of education. Since then we've had like a 700% increase in the amount of administrative staff and it's all because they're needed to deal with the stupid fucking bullshit regulations coming from the bloated and corrupt Department of Education. They create more regulations in order to create more jobs to deal with the regulations. They create a problem and then they send over pallets of money and say Here's the solution to the problem we created.
Started to phase out by mid 90's and under Bush's No Child Left Behind act of 2004 vocational classes were really hard to find in high schools. By 2009 Congress passed a College readiness act that required states to report the number of kids who graduated HS and then went on to college. High schools were incentivized to offer more college prep courses but the budget was the budget...no money in the budget for vocational classes.. I graduated in the mid 80's and was required to take home economics, sewing, or some sort of shop class...oh, and typing. I still use what I learned in wood shop to this day...don't ask me to solve an algebra problem though.
Same here, use it all, but I went into Landscape Design and finally found a use for my Algebra! Kek! I had to relearn it all.
Algebra and trigonometry are very useful in making all kinds of things, and no graduates we interview can do any of it Not even chef soh cah toa.
What is this: 'chef soh cah toa'?
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YES!! I took a couple typing classes in high school and I'm so grateful I did! When computers entered the scene, I was ready to go.
Yes, for me too. Learning typing freshman year ended up getting me my first job. I could type so fast, too.