JOANNE JACOBS makes a plea for vocational education. The Superintendent agrees that college is not for everyone, and that there is strong demand for skilled tradesmen, particularly with enterprising people in developing countries willing to do data entry, computation, programming, and computer-assisted design overnight, and for sums of money that seem small to us yet are princely to them. (Dot.com wannabes with marginal coding skills, and anybody who has to use a calculator to check problem set scores, take note.) The Superintendent cautions, however, that vocational education not be equated to a dumping ground for students who are not college material. At the original Cold Spring Shops (there was one, I promise to elaborate) it might be said of a rookie helper with limited promotion prospects, "He couldn't carry water for a patternmaker."