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Doreen

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8. In my HS we had those also but they were just one of the classes that you took during the day.

Reply to Purveyor (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 11:05 PM

Aug 2017

They were not set up in a work place setting. You still had to take classes that had nothing to do with whatever you wanted to do with your life. The only reason childcare classes took off was because it was a way to keep girls in school when they had babies. It was free child care. At least the kids got real life training but as I said it was only for 1 hour a day. 1 hour a day is not true vocational training.

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This message was self-deleted by its author ymetca Aug 2017 #1

In Germany vocational school part of high school. Doreen Aug 2017 #2

'When it comes to technical education, the United States is an outlier compared with elleng Aug 2017 #4

It is amazing that the U.S is so far behind in just about everything Doreen Aug 2017 #6

Yes it is, and we'll feel the effects for a long time, imo. elleng Aug 2017 #7

There was "Vo-tech" back in my HS days, 1972 and gasp, we even had a welding, woodworking Purveyor Aug 2017 #3

My HS days too, '62. elleng Aug 2017 #5

In my HS we had those also but they were just one of the classes that you took during the day. Doreen Aug 2017 #8