Our local vo-tech schools have lots of programs that funnel directly into the county college, which in turn funnel into Rutgers-Rowan-TCNJ-etc. So a kid can be taking an electrician's shop at 14 and have a clear path all the way up to electrical engineering. Some of my kids' friends are thriving in that route. But lots of my peers rememb…
Our local vo-tech schools have lots of programs that funnel directly into the county college, which in turn funnel into Rutgers-Rowan-TCNJ-etc. So a kid can be taking an electrician's shop at 14 and have a clear path all the way up to electrical engineering. Some of my kids' friends are thriving in that route. But lots of my peers remember vo-tech from 35 years ago as a holding cell for kids who got in trouble at Catholic school
I wish we’d had this when I was in middle/high school 25-30 years ago. My parents had to fight the school just to let me take metal shop and honors physics my senior year - they originally scheduled the one instance of each class at the same time. It’s like they’d never heard of production engineers, which need exposure to both.
Our local vo-tech schools have lots of programs that funnel directly into the county college, which in turn funnel into Rutgers-Rowan-TCNJ-etc. So a kid can be taking an electrician's shop at 14 and have a clear path all the way up to electrical engineering. Some of my kids' friends are thriving in that route. But lots of my peers remember vo-tech from 35 years ago as a holding cell for kids who got in trouble at Catholic school
I wish we’d had this when I was in middle/high school 25-30 years ago. My parents had to fight the school just to let me take metal shop and honors physics my senior year - they originally scheduled the one instance of each class at the same time. It’s like they’d never heard of production engineers, which need exposure to both.