Borg 4

by the 1920s, vocational education for automobile mechanics was done mostly by public schools
this very much controlled who would go into the work

vocational education:

• in the early 20th century relatively few people finished high school

• to increase the number of students who found high school useful, schools offered vocational courses
• the idea that education should be aimed at preparing you for a job was controversial

automakers had their own training programs but realized it would be more efficient to support public schools

public schools taught students in the auto mechanics course to be good employees

• they filled out time sheets
• had to do the jobs the prescribed way
• were given little academic work
  
• did not learn skills to have their own business
• working class  students who were not achieving academically were funneled into such classes
• programs for African American students were separate and unequal