Again you totally misunderstand.  I fully support vocational and other training in HS.  If the article had been one advocating better training in HS I would have fully agreed.  Instead the article asks why HS students are not applying for open IT jobs given that they average around $70K (revealed in comments to have a median pay of $59K).  Reread the article which is written as an advertisement for the IT industry rather than a helpful piece for the HS's.  So we agree, let's support vocational training in high schools.  I will continue to object to the local IT hypes who advertise their industry at the risk of misleading trusting students.