middle class economics

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-mon-middle-skill-jobs-sep22,0,2036559.story?track=rss

What's funny here is that I've been saying that our educational system and its 'desired' outcomes totally ignores the vast majority of occupations and their educational requirements for a while now. And that using vocational/apprentice type training is more than satisfactory to compensate for this problem.