Page 3 - Country Paper e-book_Adisti

Part 2

Vocational High School in the past…….
Indonesian people used to think that the quality of Vocational High School was not

as good as Senior High School. Only a few people sent their children to Vocational
High School. Graduating from Junior High school, students competed to entry Senior

High Schools. The ones who had the higher score in National Examination had the

more chance to choose which school they wanted to study in. On the other hand,
students having low score in National Examination had almost no chance to choose

but studying in Vocational High School. In other word, students of Vocational High
School were the ones who had no choices to school because they were not smart

enough to study at Senior High School.

Moreover, gender biased in choosing Vocational High School. Students who studied

at Technical Vocational High Schools were mostly male. Only 1 to 5 % were female.
Consequently, these schools were branded as school for naughty students. Also,

Tourism Vocational High Schools were dominated by female students. So, it was a
little bit strange for male students to study in Tourism Vocational High Schools,

although they were interested to study there. Such kind of matter led people to think

twice before deciding to send their children to study at Vocational High School.

In addition, Indonesian people considered that after graduating from Senior High
School and university, they would be easy to find a job. Senior High School graduate

and university graduate were the one with high intellegencia level, so they deserved
a bright future. In fact, it didn‟t run like that. There were a lot of Senior High School

graduates and university graduates who were jobless. It was not because they were

not smart nor they had bad scores in their academic report.

Time goes by…….

Everything is changing. Unemployment keeps increasing from time to time.
Indonesian Government find that there are a lot of senior high school and

universities graduates who are job less, meanwhile, there are still a lot of vacancies.
Then, it comes to the conclusion that the vacancies need skilled people rather than

educationally smart people. Technician, babysitter, carpenter, shopkeeper,
electrician, hairdresser, hotel‟s employees, cook, chef, waiter need skill. Even, in

e-book country paper 3