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Originally Posted by KSig RC
If you want your kid to be prepared for the 'real job world' by a school, send him to a vocational school.
Since most of us here are elitist suburbanite assholes (I know I am), most of us also know that the very term "vocational" has a stigma attached to it - and sometimes rightly so, as it is where you place 'problem children' etc.
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I don't know what vocational-technical schools are like in your neck of the woods, but ours certainly wasn't a problem child dumping ground. Quite a few of the kids who went there were very intelligent and could have easily excelled in the college prep curriculum - it simply wasn't what they wanted to do and their parents (thank God) weren't closed minded snobs who were going to force them to do it.
And while it prepared them to do
a certain job, I don't think they were any more or less prepared for interviewing, what to wear at work etc than anyone else. I mean if you were in cosmetology you knew what to do in that field, but if you got out of it you were probably clueless.