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Originally Posted by blankall
Personally I think more kids should be encouraged to focus on trades sooner. In many countries, including Germany, kids who are struggling with academics can take vocational programs. Instead we destroy the confidence of people by forcing them to struggle through remedial classes they will never use, or become "drop outs".
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Maybe this already happens to some degree, but the 'book-learning' should have an even stronger emphasis on real world applications like taxes, budgeting, how to calculate units at the grocery store, etc. Doing post-secondary can be a bit like training wheels on a lot of that stuff where you get eased into it, whereas others will be entering the workplace in one way or the other immediately.
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Originally Posted by Wormius
This does exist here though. Maybe not in every high school, but there are trades classes and programs for students that are want to prepare for careers sans a university degrees.
I think it’s on parents a little bit to recognize in their kids what they might have an aptitude for, rather than by default pushing them to take classes intended to get into university.
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I'll make a broad generalization here, but I'd venture that a lower proportion of parents [of students who struggle with regular curriculum] are as dialed in to help optimize the educational path. Which isn't to say bad parents, but I can just imagine more of a disconnect if the parents themselves didn't have a great educational experience. I think it's incumbent on the system to meet them more than halfway.