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Most of our largest cities have one or more separate vocational or technical high schools.

In this respect, public education in the large cities differs from education in the smaller cities and consolidated school districts.

The neighborhood high schools are not, strictly speaking, comprehensive schools, because some of the boys and girls may be attending a vocational or technical high school instead of the local school.

Indeed, one school superintendent in a large city objects to the use of the term comprehensive high school for the senior high schools in his city, because these schools do not offer strictly vocational programs.

He prefers to designate such schools as `` general '' high schools.

The suburban high school, it is worth noting, also is not a widely comprehensive high school because of the absence of vocational programs.

The reason is that there is a lack of interest on the part of the community.

Therefore employment and education in all the schools in a metropolitan area are related in different ways from those which are characteristic of the comprehensive high school described in my first report.