Contact your local school board and state education agency. The schools I have taught at still have these classes (automobile mechanics, applied physics, etc) b

Contact your local school board and state education agency. The schools I have taught at still have these classes (automobile mechanics, applied physics, etc) because parents fight for them. They are probably still able to legally be offered as courses (states usually don't remove entire course from state standards. The just go unupdated). School boards like to remove these courses because they are expensive (among other reasons) and on paper they look unpopular (hard safety caps mean a 15 person shop class looks unpopular compared to a 45 student overfilled history class). Schools and school boards are parts of the government most susceptible to public pressure. As a teacher, I want parents and community members to lobby their local schools. They don't listen to teachers but they buckle to parent complaints[1]. Please use your "complaining" powers for good. [1]Unfortunately, schools can have a bad habit of viewing all parent contact as "complaints" or "whining."