It's kinda gross how much my family is reacting to me not choosing to go to university and instead wanting to go to a polytechnical school. It's gross how they're all biased towards 'higher education' when that education leaves many jobless and is a waste of time if you want to become a programmer or something. It's like the bragging rights of having a 'highly educated' child is worth more than me actually studying what I want and getting a job. It's just so disgusting how my family looks down on my half brother for not finishing his university studies, even though he's doing really well in life right now and has a great job.
I'm so jealous of my friends who went to trade school because of them being told that they couldn't make it into a lukio. I just feel that so much of lukio is unnecessary stress, like these gigantic multiple book exams at the end that basically dictate whether you get into a good university or not sound terrifying. I don't want to deal with that and I know that I don't really have to. Ugh, I wish lukio hadn't been presented to me as a school where smart people go and the ones who can't make it into one go to trade school. The ****ing pedestal lukio is put on is simply bull****, I've met people who look down on people in trade school and go ''omg I'm so much smarter I'm in lukio".
To give some context, the Finnish education system branches into two after jr high, theory and studying to get a specific job.
Theory: Lukio -> University
Job: Tradeschool -> Polytechnic
The theory side specializes in teaching you book information and doesn't really specialize in anything until university.
The job side specializes in a specific job or a job-type and even already after tradeschool you can get a decent job in your specialization. It only teaches the basics of the theory part. If you finish Polytechnical school you can get a higher ranking job that earns you more money.