... United States Secretary of Education Linda McMahon discusses pushing students toward trade school starting in elementary school: "I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary school." ...
OK, fundamentally, I am not against the general concept.
My concern is the use of the verb "pushing."
imo, students should not be "pushed," they should be given opportunities.
And a reason why I am not fundamentally against introducing students to trades ...
I went to a NYC specialized high school, Brooklyn Tech, the largest single-campus in-person high school in the nation, I had about 6000 fellow students (yeah, back then it was male only), my graduating class was 1100 students (many who qualify for freshmen year do not make it to senior year). ( en.wikipedia.org )
That aside ...
In high school, I had classes in print shop, where I actually set type and printed a page of text.
Machine shop where I made a fully-metal screwdriver (which I still own), complete with a knurled handle. Assembling that screwdriver, after I made the components on a lathe, consisted f heated the handle in an oven to expand it, then inset the screwdriver blade and allow everything to cool. That blade ain't goin' nowhere now, it is in the handle until the next oven ....
Wood shop where I carved things using chisels.
Four years of mechanical drawing classes, including architectural drawing.
And then there were the honor math classes where, during my senior year, the teacher told us we were learning college graduate school level mathematics.
I could go on ...
A fun school to attend ...
But, at no point was I ever "pushed" into a subject to career. I was just shown opportunities.
Ian Fleming (ohh la la!)
So you are aware how horrid most of the Bond movies have been?