TO Boys Work,
Here’s another idea like yours. Boys who are now considered “bums” could be trained (while in high school) to be truck drivers, plumbers, etc. Perhaps it should be O.K. to admit that some boys don’t have the IQ or sitz flaish – not for college and not for yeshiva? And that for some boys this is obvious to everybody by the time they are 14? They could begin working as apprentices after high school. By the time they were 23 or so, they would be journeymen – and ready to support a family.
To do this, you would need PROFESSIONAL vocational counselors who would test boys, talk to their Rebbeim and parents, etc. and suggest a course of action (and arrange work/study where appropriate.) The concept of this school would be to continue the habit of working and learning for the rest of their lives.
How does this help the Shidduch Crisis? Because the “bums” are considered unfit for marriage – by all women. This increases the number of learner/earner men available.