- There's a stigma against vocational jobs even though they're the ones where there is demand. - Particularly if you're recommending them to marginalised people though it may be the right thing it may be seen as though you're tracking them to those kind of blue collar jobs and not allowing them to get to the next level. - This is quite a delicate balance and something that's going to be tricky to navigate. --- "When CTE was vocational education, part of the reason we had a real disinvestment from the system was because we were tracking low-income and minority kids into these pathways," Kreamer said. "There is this tension between, do you want to focus on the people who would get the most benefit from these programs, and — is that tracking" - [Link](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1155405249/high-paying-jobs-that-dont-need-a-college-degree-thousands-of-them-are-sitting-e)