Originally Posted by RizzyKing

I really hoped this government might get something right in this regard a shift in emphasis to a more balanced system between academic and vocational but it is not meant to be. What i have noticed locally is that many of the truants and non academic kids have been taken into the vocational sector and are doing very well one who lives down the road from me i don't think attended a day of school for two years. He got a placement through some local scheme at a local garage and is now one of their best mechanics even catching up with is reading and writing and maths as he can now see how it benefits him to have those skills in his job.

We are so stuck in this country on the idea that academic excellence is the benchmark to judge people by and seem completely unable or unwilling to accept it is not for everyone such a shame a better approach to vocational training could have done so much that academic study never will.