To the editor: I can’t agree extra together with your evaluation that there are many other avenues to success than just a college degree.
I’ve been a really blissful California resident for greater than 40 years after shifting 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 12 months, my highschool counselor positioned me and plenty of different classmates in a 40-hour-per-week job with an area railroad contractor, rehabbing and repairing prepare automobiles. I labored alongside grown males who had been supporting their households and educating me to be critical in regards to the work we had been doing.
My senior 12 months, 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 12 months of group faculty, I had the arrogance to strike out alone to go to any metropolis I needed, understanding my expertise and expertise made me employable. Realizing I might by no means wish 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 ought to be studied and copied nationwide.
Don Moore, Redondo Seaside
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To the editor: Your editorial appeared targeted on the cash facet of this difficulty. However it isn’t all about cash — we should think about mental growth when discussing faculty prices.
Faculty isn’t for everybody, however it does have vital benefits.
Those that attend and end college 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.
Once we are educated, we aren’t offered on concepts till we perceive them. We develop into discriminating people who can type concepts into “good” and “dangerous” classes. This permits us to think about choices that will not be apparent.
Most of us have one probability in life to pick out our future. Assume analytically earlier than you reject the school 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 group faculty system for half a century, I appreciated the a part of your editorial that mentioned the faculties “play the largest position in getting ready college students for well-paid employment.”
Sadly, I feel California residents largely fail to acknowledge that the majority nurses and cops obtain their training locally faculty system. For these in search of good-paying positions in every little thing from pc expertise to airline mechanics, our nice group faculties 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 powerful advocate for the roughly 2 million college students attending California’s 116 group faculties.
Donald L. Singer, Cardiff
