>You CAN NOT go to school and get a diploma (i.e. 10 - 12th Grade) unless you
1. had very good grades in “BEZ” level (and generally are going to go to college), or
2. you find an employer willing to sponsor you for 3 to 4 years. You will work full time, for very little pay and attend school once or twice a week.
Sounds like an internship program. Those work out great for Germany and worked out very well in America for ages. Our current system where everyone goes to college doesn’t work.
Except that it is not. A child in the 5th grade is already set on a course which is almost impossible to change and there are no objective criteria by which they are scored. It changes from city to city, school to school, even classroom to classroom.
Our current system where everyone goes to college doesn’t work.
Funny, most of the Swiss are so impressed with their system that now, if you DONT go to college, you aren't worth anything. Just to be a gardner, most employers require a "BEZ" level because plant names are in latin! Not that they actually learn latin.
Learning a vocation and completing your education can work well. The Schools that they attend are vocationally oriented schools. BUT this should not be predicated on
1. how good you were in 5th grade, and
2. that you need an employer to sponsor you
Instead of having businesses "hire" the "interns" - let them invest in the schools themselves with time / money etc ... and let the students follow their own path to success. There will still be dropouts and failure and no system is perfect. But what I have experienced and witnessed here makes me want to scream sometimes.