As a firm believer that the more education one has, the better, I think that increasing vocational education is an awful idea.

Vocational education is job training; it does nothing to enhance the overall ability to think, reason, or question.

As taxpayers, do we want to train the next generation to follow orders and never reach a higher level of thought process?

If a student chooses to discontinue further education after he graduates, so be it.

At that point, he can begin job training.

But, when he is learning on "my dollar," I would rather he learn to be a reasonably educated person.

By the way, teaching kids to be test-taking robots does not count!