Roughly 40% of kids do not go to college. Of those who do, roughly 40% do not graduate. Of those who graduate, roughly 40% work in jobs that did not require a college education.
That leaves 20-some percent who benefit from a college prep HS curriculum, and 70-some percent for whom much of it was wasted effort and should have been concentrating of something else. I’m all for a lifelong commitment to acquiring knowledge, but as these are largely taxpayer funded schools, removing shop classes for more AP offerings is not efficient use of resources.