The goal or purpose of vocational education is to prepare students to be ready for work and future employment. Preparing students for work, prepares them for work that is satisfying and that really contributes something. This is work they are really interested in, challenged by, and feel capable of performing. It is work that they have chosen.
Every student has the right to expect that kind of work.
That's what vocational education should be preparing students with developmental disabilities to do. But jobs are more than that. They make a big difference in how people feel about themselves. It wouldn't be long before they started feeling pretty useless, if they wanted to be employed, but weren't. That's a crucial question.