Why not? Learn a trade by someone doing it. Open new options to education.
Find a way for them to graduate a year early-or even 2.
Many of my cousins attended the Technical High School in Des Moines that has since been closed.
I remember schools in the 60’s and 70’s offered auto mechanics and welding classes along with homemaking and sewing classes....
General Electric had an apprentice program in the 1980s, and may still have one. It wasn’t to train blue collar types in the manufacturing trade, but was for college grads whose dads were in management. It gave them a heads up about the manufacturing practices, so they too could become managers, and have some working knowledge of factory operations.
.....”Trump says he wants every high school in America to offer apprenticeship programs”......
This is an excellent idea in every way. There are people who work outstandingly well working with their hands....in trades etc. They are motivated to learn if it’s applied to their field of interest who commonly have no interest or motivation to learn otherwise.
I have a family member who took her senior courses and also did schooling in her field of interest at the same time. When she graduated she was fully certified to get work and did. She had a jump start into the work force a good year if not more ahead of the standard.
I totally agree with the president too. Teaching a trade to those not ready for college or those that don’t want to go to college is a good thing.
There’s a myriad of trades that can be taught and apprenticeships assigned.
Bring back Vo/Tech HS. I went to 1, they had 2 paths, college or straight into career. Of course at my age much of what I learned is now out of date, as it was per computer age, not even a calculator to use. But I learned to make clothes, cook, basic first aid, wire a lamp, those skills I still use; along with typing skills. Those I still use...they call it Keyboarding today.
Guy’s had wood/metal/auto motive shops. And we still had both football and basketball for both sexes.
Hubby learned his basic electronics that were enough to pass building code test. Which he built on in the Navy and then taught for 20 yrs after his 20 yrs in the Navy doing and teaching the same computer/electronics/math courses. Comm Specialist, retired as a dept. chair head of a 2 yr Tech School.
Apprenticeships are noting new, it’s how skills were once learned before the advent of BOOKS.