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To be clear, that's an option in America as well. They're usually called a "Joint Vocational School" or a "Career Center", and they offer a variety of options.
by martzy13 5y ago
To be clear, that's an option in America as well. They're usually called a "Joint Vocational School" or a "Career Center", and they offer a variety of options.
For example the one I went to had:
* Public Safety to learn firefighting and Emergency Medical Services
* HVAC to learn a heating and cooling
* Building trades to learn electrical, carpentry, plumbing
* Software development
* Medical Assisting (a pre-nursing route)
* Cosmetology for hair stylists and makeup artists
* Engineering and Precision Machining Technologies
There are plenty of other options at that specific career center as well.
A lot of my peers 'looked down' on this choice, as they viewed the "college path" as the only option to be successful in America, and considered this an inferior education.
- vcxy 5y ago> To be clear, that's an option in America as well. Sort of. You're talking about college age, while the GP was talking about high school age. edit: I'm wrong, this was for high school students. I did go to high school in America but I never knew about this.
- martzy13 5y agoThanks for catching that. My mistake - I meant to clarify. This is in replacement of the last two years of High School. So you take your Junior and Senior high school years at a Career Center or JVS.
- vcxy 5y agoHuh. I'm not sure if we just didn't have that or what, but this is the first I'm hearing about it. Thanks for pointing that out!
- martzy13 5y agoWell, it might be an Ohio specific thing, now that I’m looking into it more. https://www.ohiohighered.org/students/find-a-career/career-technical-professional-and-vocational-schools/high-school-career-tech-prep https://www.ohiohighered.org/students/find-a-career/career-t... Under the section on Ohio > School districts may combine resources to form a fourth type of school district, the joint vocational school district, which focuses on a technical skills–based curriculum. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_district https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_district