High school shop class is back—and it's showing students alternatives to 'traditional college'

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High school classes like woodshop were seen as fixtures of the 20th century. Now, they are making a comeback.

that those who hold a bachelor's degree have 84% higher earning potential, or $36,000 more, than those with solely a high school degree.For instance, Nolan Brunn, 22, attended high school in Anoka, Minnesota from 2015 to 2019. He says that while his school "pressured" students to follow

Brunn cruised through the CTE curriculum, eventually outpacing the metalwork level of his peers and the courses offered at his school. His teachers allowed him to work on his own projects even while he was in a lower-level metals course. "I think the cat's out of the bag a little bit on traditional college," says Western Welding Academy CEO Tyler Sasse who dropped out of high school at 16 years old to become a welder. He says during his best year, he made $350,000 in 10 months.The trade worker shortage

"What we have in the workforce is a pretty big hole where we didn't do that training," says Ed Castile, who runs Alabama Industrial Development Training. "We're scrambling to get peoplein the areas that we need. So every year that we graduate more career-tech-ed students, the better we are."

 

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