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.
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.
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.