[martzy13]

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]

> 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]

Thanks 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]

Huh. 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]

Well, it might be an Ohio specific thing, now that I’m looking into it more.

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