<p>Greenbutton, I don’t want to imply that vocational ed IS less. But, at least in my state, we don’t have the funding to have it all and the vocal parents tend to be the ones that don’t want to cut the programs that benefit the college bound. It was the same when I lived in Berkeley, CA, so it is not a Midwestern phenomemon. Of course, our state has property tax caps, so hard decisions are made every day.</p>
<p>It doesn’t work for us, obviously, since we are a state with some of the lowest college graduate populations, but my only option is to move to another state-something that my family is unable to do. I live in an area that doesn’t care about the Ivy League, they care about unemployment and living paycheck to paycheck. We can’t throw money at the problem because there is none in our state coffers.</p>