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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
What canada really lacks is a federal level trades and apprentice program that is as good and respected as the university system.
We do a lousy job of creating the people that create the companies that diversify the economy.
We still view trades as some kind of grade 10 drop out choice instead of seeing machinists as being a damn sight more important to Canada than lawyers bankers or English majors
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And a lot of that change of focus is going to have to come from parents.
How many parents are fussing about what elementary schools their children should attend, public versus private, and the list goes on?
Those parents are not fussing about schools because they want their children to go to trade school later on.
They are fussing because they worry their children won't get into the right universities if they make the wrong choices for their children's schools at the elementary and secondary levels.
Government can add all the trade schools and other alternatives they want but until a change in focus comes from parents and students themselves, we are going to see more of the same. A lot of unemployed and over qualified university graduates with general degrees that give them training for basically nothing.