The purpose of this study was to determine why so few black male high school graduates in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, area attend post-high school area vocational schools. The investigator developed an instrument comprised of ten Likert-type scales and one true-false scale to test for differences between groups of students on their perception of labor unions, area vocational schools, blue collar work, middle-class values, their parents' perception of education, their friends' perception of education, the concept "education is good," the concept "teachers are good," the concept "counselors are good," and their knowledge about area vocational schools. The subjects were randomly selected from the population of male high school seniors attending two inner city high schools in St. Paul, Minnesota. There were two randomly stratified random samplings: students were randomly selected within the parameters of race and (a) what they expected to be doing the next year, and (b) what they would like to be doing the next year. Analysis of variance, using orthogonal contrasts, was the principal statistical technique used. (Author/JM)