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Why is Teaching a Crime? California Denies Blue-Collar Workers Entry to Trade Schools - YouTube
Channel: Institute for Justice
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Oh give me land, lots of land under
starry skies above
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Now don't fence me in
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Let me ride through the wide open
country that I love
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Don't fence me in
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Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
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Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
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Send me off forever, but I ask you
please
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Don't fence me in.
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You could read about horseshoeing, and study horse shoeing at a university setting
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for twenty years, and not be able to shoe a horse.
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You've just got to physically get underneath the horse,
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manipulate the feet, play with the tools,
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so it's strictly all hands on.
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For a thousand years, its just been traditionally handed down, you just learn from grandpa.
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You don't learn in a formal classroom, or a formal school.
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Schools are a relatively new invention for horse shoeing.
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The name of my business is Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School,
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and we train people to be professional farriers.
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A farrier is someone that trims and shoes horses feet.
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The state of California, requires that
every student that I accept in my program,
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either possess a high school diploma, a GED,
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or they pass a written exam that's been approved
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by the U.S. Department of Education.
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You don't have to know algebra to be
able to shoe a horse.
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You don't have to be able to read a novel, to be able to shoe a horse.
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You don't have to be able to write a novel to shoe a horse.
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You don't have to possess any kind of degree
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in mathematics, or in English in order to
shoe a horse.
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Horses don't speak English, horses don't do math...
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We're good.
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Before this law was enacted, I had many many many kids,
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from all over the United States
that would come through the program that
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did exceptionally well and they're
still shoeing horses today, making a living.
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They had no high school diploma, no GED,
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they didn't take a written exam.
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A lot of these young folks that are coming to the school
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they're looking to better their lives because they have really low end jobs
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and in order to support themselves and their families,
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their seven days a week, they're working full-time
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and they're hardly making it.
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Esteban is a young man that has been
doing some helping,
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he has to support his family and so he has all these little odd jobs that he has to do,
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but he doesn't have a high school diploma.
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Government is his biggest obstacle to success,
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and not because the government is protecting him,
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but they just arbitrarily decided that all schools are not allowed to take these kids
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unless they meet their requirements regardless of what the training is.
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I can't believe that the state of California makes a decision that somebody is not
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worthy of investing in their own selves.
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They pick winners and losers, based on an arbitrary system of whose finished high school,
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and if you haven't finished high school you're not even allowed to invest in yourself, and that's insane.
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