http://disqus.com/by/aa8113/enTue, 03 Mar 2009 16:39:42 -0000http://forum.wgbh.org/node/1545#comment-6848845<p>I hope the restructuring of high schools reverts back to 1957 when a young woman could get a pretty decent job and embark on a profession upon graduation. In those "good old days" high schools had three curricula - College Prep, Commercial and General. My family could not afford to send me to college, so I opted for the Commercial courses and at 18 I graduated high school with a knowledge of office practices, bookkeeping, typing skills and shorthand skills. Six months later I was taking verbatim dictation as an Admin Clerk in the U. S. Airforce's 3535 Navigator Training Squadron as a Faculty Secretary, and started a very good career with the US Government. Kids now are not equipped to enter any but the most menial job markets, and most cannot afford the specialized institutions (trade schools, secretarial schools, not to mention colleges) to prepare them for what we learned in high school. Big Business took over Education and certainly ruined it for millions.</p>aa8113Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:39:42 -0000