As a recently retired secondary school teacher I have noted that, especially in the last decade, the Ministry of Education and the administrators of local school boards have been pushing more and more to manipulate core curriculum to the needs -or the imagined needs- of the job market. 

While I agree that preparing young people for the world of work is important, I vociferously disagree that it should be the primary focus of the secondary school system. 

Youth need to be nurtured, intellectually challenged, and given the opportunity to investigate the great works of art, and the great ideas, of the western tradition. 

Where else in this society will they be exposed to Plato, or Leonardo, or Mozart, or Joyce?

Many people today seem to think that the role of the school system, from kindergarten to graduate programs, is to help young people polish a resume and land a six figure job. 

This is both delusional, and potentially dangerous, for the very reasons you have pointed out here.