This is compounded by making it quite hard to actually get in to teaching, especially later in life. You have to go to school for 4 years and pay for this yourself (no student financing), which essentially no one does for obvious reasons. There is a special path for adults (zij-instroomtraject) which means you "only" get paid minimum wage for two years and the entry requirements (IMHO needlessly) excludes quite a few people.
Inflexibility in how we treat education in general is a big problem; I was sent to MAVO back in the day only because I hated doing French and was pretty awful at it, and bad French grade of course means you can't possibly be good at anything else :-/ There were quite a few people in my MAVO class like that. There's been shortages of technically educated people for decades, which is not a surprise if you judge technical people on their ability to do French when they're 13 and then close off all avenues for further education based on that...
Or, as one of my foreign friends said, "you need a diploma to clean a rat's arse here".
Inflexibility in how we treat education in general is a big problem; I was sent to MAVO back in the day only because I hated doing French and was pretty awful at it, and bad French grade of course means you can't possibly be good at anything else :-/ There were quite a few people in my MAVO class like that. There's been shortages of technically educated people for decades, which is not a surprise if you judge technical people on their ability to do French when they're 13 and then close off all avenues for further education based on that...
Or, as one of my foreign friends said, "you need a diploma to clean a rat's arse here".