IKR? There was an island between Alaska & Russia where they survived for a LONG time after the mainland mammoths died out.

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Trade schools and Universities both serve good purposes. Teens should be encouraged to go to both as they are inclined, and be barred from neither.
Neither should condemn a person to debt into their 50's.