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Totally disagree.  In other countries, there is no shame in pursuing trades rather than college degrees.  Many kids here would be much better off if they became electricians, plumbers, HVAC specialists, etc. than they are with getting their English lit degree from a 3rd tier school, going into massive debt, and ending up working at Starbucks anyway.  [/quote]

I think you missed my point.

If you want to study something outside of what you are tracked for in Europe- say for instance you are tracked to be a mechanic but want to be a physicist- you need to leave Europe and go to school in America to do it.

It’s great that hvac jobs are valued there. They are valued here too at 80-90k a year. But here- no one has tests that keep you from even going to college. That’s the difference. We track but we don’t say you need to leave the country to follow your dreams because of a National tracking system. 
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I think you missed my point.  If you're tracked for vocational school but want to be a physicist, then you most likely lack the aptitude to have a real chance to be a physicist.  It's much kinder to direct you toward a field in which you can be successful than it is to encourage you to follow your dreams and then watch you fail miserably, often racking up quite a bit of debt in the process.

Also, Europe is quite large, and the countries all handle tracking very differently.  Few of them are as rigid as you're suggesting.  In Germany, for example, there are still ways to move your kid up to the higher track or place your kid in it.  They just aren't going to slow down or remediate for your child.  [/quote]

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