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In reply to the discussion: Trump Admin Poised To Give Rural Whites A Carve-Out On Medicaid Work Rules [View all]BumRushDaShow
(129,879 posts)And I stopped after that. The devil's spawn, that one.
I agree that students should be given a freedom to choose because in the past, far too many - particularly POC, were purposely put into "tracks" that kept them out of the academic/college sphere. So when they did try to go to college, they spent the first 2 years in remedial classes. Basically, if you didn't get into the academic/college-prep track, then you were shunted into something nebulous and meaningless like "business", where maybe when you got out of high school, you could hope to be a teller (and then banks got rid of most of them) or work in retail.
I think there is a mindset among liberals of late that has eschewed the "skilled trades", with a sense that somehow they aren't "skills", despite the fact that they are! There is a big gap in terms of certain fields.