Since Tabor Academy is a “college prep” school do you think
it has a goal of guiding students to whatever may be best for them even if it
is a position in the trades? Examine and explain your opinion.
Best is a very subgektiv word. And for most in the Tabor community, the 'best' outcome for an enrolled student is one far away from any type of position in the trades. Pursueing a trade as a career would be percieved by many as a failure. Saying you'll be a plumber or a mechanic is more of a punchline than anything else. It may make a student here happy, fufilled, and give him or her more purpose than that found in a cubicle. A cubicle, however, and the work done there as opposed to 'tinkering' will bring money. Money will pay back college loans, money will potentailly donated to Tabor, and money that will send their children to Tabor. That being said, the ones who apply thiemselfes to Tabor already have an established different path from that of a tradesman. If someone was super interested in the trades then they would be interested in a vocational school.
So what about the building mogul John Fish, like the Fish center! He attended Tabor and was/ is a builder. He is a Tabor alum has a degree in Political Science and has worked for his entire life as a builder and now CEO of a large building firm. Without his Tabor career he might just have been a builder for someone else's company. Without his career in the trades as a young man he would not now be a multi-millionaire. What about kids who leave Tabor and become boat builders? What about kids who leave Tabor and go on to run their families electrical company, auto repair business etc. Not every trades job is a grunt job for life. While plumber may seem like a punch-line to a joke I don't think John Fish considers his summers and early career swinging a hammer to be the butt of any joke, if it is he's laughing all the way to the bank!
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