Germany pulled off a vocational school miracle that North America still can’t figure out. Here (in Canada and the U.S.), skilled trades workers are heavily look

Germany pulled off a vocational school miracle that North America still can’t figure out. Here (in Canada and the U.S.), skilled trades workers are heavily looked down upon as low status. Indeed, if you actually talk to people working in a lot of them you’ll hear stories about alcoholics and drug addicts who barely manage to show up to work. You’ll have 1-2 highly experienced, highly skilled trades workers who can get all the work done, and the rest are useless trouble-makers. This perception bleeds over into the public eye and the entire field is treated with disdain. Even higher level trades like electricians are caught in it, and so it’s seen that going to vocational school is low status so there must be something wrong with you. The problem is entirely cultural!