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Originally Posted by DJones
The alternative is generally called specialization or streamed education. In Europe they'd identify the kids and put them in an appropriate school. That being a Renfrew type school within the public system. Same for high schools. Trade stream goes to this school. University stream goes here. It's all public meaning government funded, all the schools just aren't identical.
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You don't have to go across the pond to find examples of this. Manitoba's public school system is like that, particularly in high schools. I went to the University-entry high school in my area, while about 10 minutes away there was a trades-focused high school a few of my friends went to (of whom I was a bit jealous of because they had an auto shop for the Power Mech. course I wanted to take). Hell, there is a literally a school in Winnipeg named 'Technical Vocational High School' (or colloquially, Tec-Voc).