I like the idea of vocational technical schools because it teaches skills to prepare training for specific trades and technical employment. Vocational schools are ideal for students who want to immediately join the work force out of high school. Vocational classes teach technical skills the help to prepare students to get job training for either a specific job or technical employment. Here students are not grouped based on performance. Some schools have even chose to drop the Vocational in the name and replace it with technical.
These classes use to be offered in regular high schools but abolished years ago. Then for some time there was a program where students from my high school could take acouple of vocational classes but even this program was dropped. I think the idea of vocational schools should be spread and used in all schools. Learning technical skills allows a new method of learning and a new set of skills. Having these courses could potentially inspire a student towards a particular career path. These are skilled being learned that could also be used in everyday life. Imagine having your car die on the side of the road and having the ability to make it run long enough to make it to a gas station. Or having a plumbing problem that you could have a do it yourself fix or simply cooking dinner at night for yourself or a family. I feel like students now days are missing out on these resourceful skills.
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