My kid is in a rare dual-track vocational + college prep program in high school. Teaching trades is important and good. Steering kids to trades while underfunding public education in order to reify a caste system that benefits the rich and powerful is not. Guess which one Linda McMahon is doing.
Seth CotlarIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.