In practice, apprenticeship/traineeship starts too late. As you said, there should be something like it during / instead of high school, not after high school.

In practice, apprenticeship/traineeship starts too late. As you said, there should be something like it during / instead of high school, not after high school. We had an apprentice at work (in Germany) who was going to a Waldorf school I think. They do a half-year apprenticeship as opposed to three weeks as the others do.