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Would highly recommend people read @jamiljivani& #39;s excellent and moving first hand account of how Ontario& #39;s academic/applied streaming system creates barriers that hurt underprivileged students the most, like Jamil, and why it needed to go. A few thoughts: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamil-jivani-ontarios-old-streaming-policy-ruined-the-chances-of-boys-like-me/wcm/a77f9ddd-a3a2-44a5-a06a-d4fd9aaa6298/">https://nationalpost.com/opinion/j...
My view is that the reason academic/applied streaming is so bad is because it& #39;s a brutal halfway house. The applied stream doesn& #39;t actually do good vocational training, it is a self-selecting divider between the "smart" and "dumb" kids, and it closes doors to students too early.
But what I think would be better is a vocational streaming model. I tweeted a few days ago that too many people go to university, and Ontario& #39;s education system is in many ways structured to get as many students as possible into universities, and creates a have/have not system.
The applied stream doesn& #39;t do that, it just separates out the not going to university kids and basically leaves them behind by locking these students in. It isn& #39;t vocational education. What I think would be preferable is something along the lines of a German, or CEGEP model.
The goal of a vocational model like this, keeping students in secondary education a year longer in these vocational finishing schools would be to massively reduce the number of kids who end up going to university and help provide actual vocational training for kids.
