The reason for the push is that there is a lot of funding pouring in for those classes. More classes, more dough...and maybe *some* of it will actually be spent on CTE stuff (read: no oversight). Only a complete DA of a superintendent is going to turn that money down (ours massively cut our CTE program, and we lost quite a lot of money...so I'm familiar with that kind of a super.).

Career Ex., like Art, is a hard one to compete against (that's the one class our super didn't cut)....once the kid discovers they can get a 100 for minimal effort that's where they are headed, and no trip to Disney World 3 years down the road will sway them, they just know they don't have to sweat anymore.