Such programs are no longer appropriate or compatible with current skills expectations: automotive repair courses in high
school where practice continued on components that had been replaced by sophisticated computers in current cars; cosmetology courses whose graduates didn't have the math skills to pass licensing requirements for hairdressers and ended up as hair shampooers; distributive education courses that taught «
selling» but not the computer, computation, and
communication skills needed for any but the lowest - level sales jobs.
Alex Blackwell, vice president of marketing and
communications for Walsworth Yearbooks, said that every
school with a store on Walsworth's website can
sell its yearbook.