To the editor: I can not agree extra along with your evaluation that there are many other avenues to success than just a college degree.
I’ve been a really pleased California resident for greater than 40 years after transferring round our nice nation as a younger man. I used to be afforded this luxurious by advantage of my vocational and technical (vo-tech) highschool training in Delaware.
In the summertime between my sophomore and junior yr, my highschool counselor positioned me and plenty of different classmates in a 40-hour-per-week job with a neighborhood railroad contractor, rehabbing and repairing practice vehicles. I labored alongside grown males who had been supporting their households and educating me to be severe concerning the work we had been doing.
My senior yr, I went to class within the morning and within the afternoon labored a part-time job as an electrician’s apprentice at a producing plant.
After highschool and a yr of neighborhood faculty, I had the boldness to strike out alone to go to any metropolis I wished, figuring out my expertise and abilities made me employable. Realizing I’d by no means need to stay wherever however Los Angeles, I began an digital safety firm.
There’s a confirmed blueprint for profitable vo-tech training in Delaware, and it needs to be studied and copied nationwide.
Don Moore, Redondo Seaside
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To the editor: Your editorial appeared centered on the cash facet of this problem. Nevertheless it isn’t all about cash — we should take into account mental improvement when discussing faculty prices.
Faculty isn’t for everybody, but it surely does have essential benefits.
Those that attend and end faculty are higher in a position to dissect the language used to explain issues and concepts. This permits the educated to higher consider what we’re being advised.
After we are educated, we’re not offered on concepts till we perceive them. We turn into discriminating people who can type concepts into “good” and “dangerous” classes. This permits us to think about choices that is probably not apparent.
Most of us have one probability in life to pick our future. Suppose analytically earlier than you reject the faculty choice.
David Ando, Torrance
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To the editor: As one who had the nice fortune and privilege of working within the California neighborhood faculty system for half a century, I appreciated the a part of your editorial that mentioned the colleges “play the largest position in making ready college students for well-paid employment.”
Sadly, I feel California residents largely fail to acknowledge that almost all nurses and law enforcement officials obtain their training locally faculty system. For these in search of good-paying positions in the whole lot from pc know-how to airline mechanics, our nice neighborhood schools can help you in reaching your aim.
It additionally must be acknowledged that our switch college students to four-year universities do in addition to individuals who begin their faculty careers in these establishments.
As one who labored for greater than 50 years within the system, I’m a robust advocate for the roughly 2 million college students attending California’s 116 neighborhood schools.
Donald L. Singer, Cardiff
