Public High Schools vs Vocational Schools Acceptance Practices

As the years have passed vocational schools have now found their recipe for accepting new students into their school. Not only do they need recommendations from their teachers, good academic standings and some extra-curricular activities but they have been screening the new recruits by interviewing them. This type of practice isn't really a public school practice but rather a private school practice. If a school accepts funding from the state or the federal government they should abid by the laws of the comprehensive high school. The vocational schools claim they are working within the confines of the Department of Education. That may be true and it obviouly is. Why would the Department of Education allow this to happen? If the vocational school doesn't want a student they don't accept them and off the student goes to the local high school. The student then comes to the high school unhappy thet he/she wasn't accepted and feels unwanted. I have been asked by those in the vocational high school of what would I suggest for them to do? I say, make the acceptance policy like the charter schools. Have a lottery. Put the kid’s names in a hat and draw from that. I can not see any other fair sollution.