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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually agree with you OP, and I’ve lived in Germany. But the US would just not accept it, because our race/class system has developed in such a way that many parents believe that vocational work is beneath their children. [/quote]

Agree. I think the German system is pretty good in that it values all people. A country needs welders and machinists more than they need time-wasting lawyers and the mediocrity that ends up in human resources. But American society is much more complicated than German society. Just try telling a black or asian parent that their kid should go to vocational training. Tracking isn't going to work in America. What will work is establishing specialty high schools that focus on vocational training. And then the good outcomes become their own advertisement. Those kids will get great jobs. And the demand for those schools will become self-perpetuating. Americans respond to choice, not 4th grade tracking. [/quote]

Moco has a vocational school program at Thomas Edison. I visited the school recently and was really impressed with the facilities. As I understand, kids can enroll there for their vocation classes for 2.5 hours a day in the morning or afternoon and then take a bus to their home school for academic classes.  I don't think a lot of students are participating in this program

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