Originally Posted by budavita 
Wierd thing is that it has been pulling in barely enough students to keep it going. These Community School programs are held at night at the High Schools, which on LA's Westside have been shutting down their vocational programs. Doesn't make sense considering how few students actually make it out of HS and through College. The kids that do make it through college couldn't turn a screw without asking questions. No wonder the USA is getting it's ass kicked in manufacturing!
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I see quite a bit of this myself. Younger people, working fast food, crap factory jobs or don't even work at all, "can you teach me? What do I have to do to learn? How do I get started?". You could write them a book and they still won't get off thier lazy ass.
Most of the aquintences and some of my friends who ask me all the time are the same one's who say "MC doesn't work, he just pushes some buttons". Once they figure out it's a little more involved, they loose interest. I tell every one of them, "if it's so easy, just go buy some equiptment and push some buttons and you'll have a job just like me."
And then there's the kids who just want the job pushing buttons in a big shop for $20/hr. Problem is, when they lose that job, they have to find another big shop to pay them too much money to change parts and push the green and red buttons because they never aquired any real skill.
It's kinda sad that more of our youth is not taking interest. Especially with opperturnities as mentioned in the first two posts, people are just wasting thier lives. This isn't a carrer where you just goto school for a couple of years and get a job and salery worth bragging about. It takes years, many years and you'll make good money IF your good at what you do.