Likewise, having recently completed a project for the local school district, I was made all too aware of the 'college only' emphasis that the kids were getting.
That is one reason why I can't get too mad at the Mexicans. We have a lot of people who say they are here taking our jobs but if you go down to the high school looking for someone who wants to work in a trade, starting at the bottom, they look at you like you have two heads.
For some reason they would rather go to college for 5 years and work in a dead end office job the rest of their life.