A vocational school (technical education) offers training in careers that require pre-excersise before college, if college is even needed after four years in a vocational school. Some careers include carpentry, electricity, auto-mechanic, esthetics, and hairdressing.
There is actually a vocational school in Wakefield, about fifteen minutes from Revere (where I live.) It is called Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School. At this particular school students perform one week in academics and then one week in their profession. This rotation continues for the entire school year. This vocational school also gets out two weeks earlier than any other high school in the district.
In the USA, vocational schools are secondary schools and classes can be offered within the school, in community colleges, or sometimes online. Also, many vocational schools are private and in some cities vocational schools are the only form of high school.
A couple of my friends attended this school. One of them was a girl and she decided to take up hairdressing. She did four years at the Northeast Metropolitican Regional Vocational High School and finished with a high school diploma and a license in hairdressing. She is a full-time hairdresser and didn't need to attend hair school after high school to further her profession.
Another friend of mine is a boy and he just recently graduated in 2008. He did four years of carpentry. He decided to do carepentry because he thought it would get him a high income job someday. He graduated the Voke with a high school diploma but he decided to further his education by going to Wentworth Institute of Technology. From there, he hopes to have a degree in carpentry by 2012.
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