Edward Keenan: New rules for high school students should prove a plus for much-needed trades training
About the time I was a little kid, the word was going around among the adults in my life — sometimes offered as a complaint, sometimes as a warning: “It’s getting to be so you need a high school diploma to mop floors nowadays.”
Even then, back in the 1980s when I was in grade school hearing this, the inflation in credentials required to participate in the job market was becoming an issue, especially for those of us who were expected to most likely wind up wearing blue collars. Before, if you weren’t good at high school, or if you kind of messed up a bit in early adolescence before getting yourself organized, good opportunities to pursue trades or other decent and lucrative work remained available.
My own experience and upbringing — my own extended family — tells me this will be good news for a lot of people. But my own opinion about it will depend a lot on how it is executed in practice. If it opens opportunities, or makes them clearer, to people who welcome them, then that’s wonderful. But if it winds up severely limiting opportunities in ways students later regret, that would be less good. And my own experience also tells me that second possibility is a strong one.
It wouldn’t have been an especially new story: my father told me once that when it came time for him to decide whether to apply to university, he only then realized that choice had already been made because he hadn’t taken the math prerequisites starting in Grade 10, because no one had bothered to tell him he’d need them.
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