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It's been a long time since I lived in Germany and saw what they were doing first hand, but one thing that really struck me was that they have actual vocational training at a young age. A significant portion of their population goes into blue collar work, but there is no real stigma attached to it and the money is pretty good. They actually train them so that they excel at what they are doing. In my US high school in Maine, I'd guess that 75% of the kids in the vocational programs were there because they were slackers, not because they had any sort of mechanical aptitude.
Today, in my county, there is no real vocational program for Middle School and High School kids. There are a couple of courses here and there, but no program. Where are the welders of tomorrow going to come from?
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