One of the best things to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is the changing educational landscape. Many parents are now homeschooling their children, realizing that doing so is not as daunting as they thought, while many other parents have seen the type of crummy curricula their children are being fed and are demanding that their elected school board members make some changes. And then we have the college scene. “More than a million students have held off from going to college” since the pandemic problems arose, NPR recently reported, and many of those students are seeking training in the trades instead. Their skills are in high demand, too, as nearly 90 percent of contractors are desperate for competent workers. In this development we see an interesting switch in thinking. In the past, those who pursued training in the trades were looked down upon, almost as if they were from …