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Originally Posted by Azure
To me the biggest issue is the attitude. I have friends in Germany, and it is interesting how trades are looked upon as a great career. All the big German manufacturers have programs in place to get these kids into vocational programs when they are 15 already.
Here in Canada we think kids taking a 'year off' before going to post secondary is great. Why? We need to get kids into programs sooner, not later.
Teacher attitudes are the worst to me. I don't think a single teacher I had advocated for trade schools, and many of the kids that did end up going to trade school have great careers.
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They also stream earlier, with children being channeled into vocational and university streams at age 10. Something which runs counter to the trend in Canada towards flattened models of education.
Basically, Germany has a pragmatic approach to these things, while Canadian policy is constrained by ideological and emotional narratives we like to tell ourselves.