Indeed, the vocational center was bad enough that I had a dream one time that it had to be closed for several days because of a shooting, which I was falsely framed for (much like a typical Matlock story, and here's the kicker: I wasn't at the skill center when the shooting took place. I found out about it when the coordinator for my high school told us that it had been closed and they were told not to send out my session or the next one after that "until further notice"). It's bad enough I hear about shootings and murder a lot from the news. They run such stories all the time on the television stations in Detroit (WJBK 2, WDIV 4, WXYZ 7) and Flint (WNEM 5, WJRT 12, WEYI 25).
I wanted to go into computer repair (I obtained an A+ certification through the skill center within the first few months of me attending it, thanks to being referred to take the exam by my instructor, who said at one point that I knew more than he did.), but it seems that field is in (possibly permanent) decline, like almost everything else (except for health care-there's loads of ads for medical assisting programs at for-profit "technical institutes" like Everest, ITT, Dorsey, and Ross Medical Education Center all over daytime television, along with other dubious things like structured settlement factoring/"get cash now" companies (structured settlement factoring requires court approval, which takes up to several months depending on the court schedule, for one thing, which they don't tell you in those commercials), and ambulance chasers advertising impending drug lawsuits (like Bob Goldwater and Pulaski & Middleman).