Conservative San Diego county appears not to want their children to learn about accounting, web design, or child development. What does this say about them? But then they gave us Pete Wilson, deregulated the electric industry and then were the first to cry when the rates went through the roof.  Read on.

The Huffington Post (7/18) reports that despite improvements in CTE education in recent decades, educators can still face trouble trying to "sell the concept of having all students take courses in CTE," citing parental protests in La Jolla, California, when the San Diego Unified School District "proposed new high school graduation requirements mandating two years of career and technical education courses-or two to four courses. The district would have been the first in the nation to have such a mandate, experts believe." The Post reports that near-universal parental opposition to the plan, even after "school officials spent hours in a meeting to assure hundreds of parents that courses like computerized accounting, child development and website design" could benefit all students-caught district officials flat-footed. The piece notes parenthetically that advocates for more CTE cite ED support for such programs.