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> To be clear, that's an option in America as well.

Sort of. You're talking about college age, while the GP was talking about high school age.

edit: I'm wrong, this was for high school students. I did go to high school in America but I never knew about this.

Thanks for catching that. My mistake - I meant to clarify. This is in replacement of the last two years of High School.

So you take your Junior and Senior high school years at a Career Center or JVS.

Huh. I'm not sure if we just didn't have that or what, but this is the first I'm hearing about it. Thanks for pointing that out!

Well, it might be an Ohio specific thing, now that I’m looking into it more.

https://www.ohiohighered.org/students/find-a-career/career-t...

Under the section on Ohio > School districts may combine resources to form a fourth type of school district, the joint vocational school district, which focuses on a technical skills–based curriculum.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_district

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