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Originally Posted by blankall
Germany and Scandinavia also divert children who are not performing well into trades programs during high school. Canada is starting to do this, and it makes sense. Instead of demoralizing a child by forcing them to repeat remedial math multiple times, why not give them actual skills.
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The attitude that it is the low performers who should go into trades is the problem. I'm a university educated professional (P.Eng) and have huge respect for the trades. Those are often good, stable jobs held by smart people who make important decisions and do interesting work. In a previous job I worked with an instrumentation tech who was smarter than me and made more money than me. But I had way more social standing within the company and in society in general as a professional. Which is stupid.
We need more tradespeople way more than we need graduates of many different university programs.
If trades weren't looked down upon by so many they would be considered a more viable career choice for young people. Maybe then we'd have the high end manufacturing reputation of Germany.