America needs apprenticeships. E.g. in Czech Republic you can attend these vocational schools instead of high schools and there's less of a stigma to attending them. There are schools for programmers, nurses, car mechanics.
Particularly the programmer ones let you do learn idk, basic networking, 3d programming and some basic entrepreneurship (accounting etc).
I believe it's one of the reasons it has the lowest unemployment rates in EU https://qz.com/index/1046172/this-country-has-the-lowest-une...