>When I went to high school in Pennsylvania the 90s people were still encouraged to into the trades.
I graduated in 2002, at the time any Georgia high school graduate with a B average got full tuition and fees paid for with the HOPE scholarship (still exists, but it only pays about 80% now).
Possibly as a result, almost everyone who wasn't a terrible student was encouraged to go to college.
The only people pushed into the trade direction were people with less than a B average, and with grade inflation you really had to be pretty lazy not to get by with a B.
I graduated in 2002, at the time any Georgia high school graduate with a B average got full tuition and fees paid for with the HOPE scholarship (still exists, but it only pays about 80% now).
Possibly as a result, almost everyone who wasn't a terrible student was encouraged to go to college.
The only people pushed into the trade direction were people with less than a B average, and with grade inflation you really had to be pretty lazy not to get by with a B.