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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 39758" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Hi, Kjs.</p><p>My computer says it's 5.25 am Monday in Texas. Here, it's 8.25 pm, Monday night.</p><p></p><p>The college courses here - we have TAFE (Technical and Further Education) which is a place where people can get extra qualifications. Depending on the course, you can enrol there even if you haven't graduated from high school. Or they have courses which are an alternative to university. Have a look online, see what I mean.</p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 goes to TAFE part-time. It's two evenings a week for her, and will last three years. Hopefully in the meantime she will get a job in this field, while she is studying.</p><p>How did we get her to go? She had to work it out for herself. We have a rule in this house - when you finish school you have to either get a job or study at TAFE (or uni, in the unlikely event you get into a uni course). In difficult child 1's case, he got into voluntary work.</p><p>If a student has a recognised disability, even if it's just ADHD, they can enrol in one free TAFE course a year. So the kids have enrolled each year in a range of courses. Eventually they finds a direction they enjoy, and follow it further with a higher course. These are potential career paths, very much applied. And the disability support is fabulous. Unlike what we get in schools, here they bend over backwards to get their students through the course. The kids feel like they are accepted as adults (a lot of the students are much older; people getting back into the workforce or changing careers in middle years, sometimes).</p><p>TAFES are everywhere. This one is only half an hour's drive from home. There is another, just ten minutes further on. And another, then another, at five to ten minute intervals all the way into the centre of Sydney. </p><p></p><p>I don't know if you have anything like this, but it's just fabulous for difficult children. Simply marvellous. They gain confidence, they gain skills, they gain qualifications that are very highly valued because of the strong practical element to the course.</p><p></p><p>I hope that explains a bit.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 39758, member: 1991"] Hi, Kjs. My computer says it's 5.25 am Monday in Texas. Here, it's 8.25 pm, Monday night. The college courses here - we have TAFE (Technical and Further Education) which is a place where people can get extra qualifications. Depending on the course, you can enrol there even if you haven't graduated from high school. Or they have courses which are an alternative to university. Have a look online, see what I mean. easy child 2/difficult child 2 goes to TAFE part-time. It's two evenings a week for her, and will last three years. Hopefully in the meantime she will get a job in this field, while she is studying. How did we get her to go? She had to work it out for herself. We have a rule in this house - when you finish school you have to either get a job or study at TAFE (or uni, in the unlikely event you get into a uni course). In difficult child 1's case, he got into voluntary work. If a student has a recognised disability, even if it's just ADHD, they can enrol in one free TAFE course a year. So the kids have enrolled each year in a range of courses. Eventually they finds a direction they enjoy, and follow it further with a higher course. These are potential career paths, very much applied. And the disability support is fabulous. Unlike what we get in schools, here they bend over backwards to get their students through the course. The kids feel like they are accepted as adults (a lot of the students are much older; people getting back into the workforce or changing careers in middle years, sometimes). TAFES are everywhere. This one is only half an hour's drive from home. There is another, just ten minutes further on. And another, then another, at five to ten minute intervals all the way into the centre of Sydney. I don't know if you have anything like this, but it's just fabulous for difficult children. Simply marvellous. They gain confidence, they gain skills, they gain qualifications that are very highly valued because of the strong practical element to the course. I hope that explains a bit. Marg [/QUOTE]
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