Yes, if he wasn't academically inclined. This is done by the Swiss. After primary school - Kids are placed on two tracks - academic - or vocational. It called dual system.
Students who aspire for an academic career enter Mittelschule (also named Gymnasium, or Kantonsschule, a public school by the canton/state) to be prepared for further studies and the Matura (normally obtained after 12 or 13 years of school usually at the age of 18 or 19).
Students intending to pursue a trade or vocation complete three to four additional years before entering Vocational Educations which are regulated by federal law and are based on a cooperation of private business offering educational job-positions and public schools offering obligatory school-lessons complementary to the on-the-job education
would you get your 12 year old in a technical school in kenya?