Entering 2025, community colleges are expanding apprenticeships and other experienced-based learning programs to address America’s labor shortage crisis and meet a growing demand for alternative forms of higher education.
“Community colleges are going beyond their traditional role of instruction, helping to organize, register, and assist companies in running their apprenticeship programs,” John Colborn, executive director of Apprenticeships for America, told The College Fix.
yup. the worse thing they ever did was drop shop class. now we have to start over.
ReplyDeletekind of weird as the clowns in DC think we can still fight a war like WW2 again.
WE CAN'T. we no longer have the factories. a semi skill work force. let alone a skilled one
of any size to speak of. bringing back skilled trades is a start. most kids don't realize that NOW there is a real demand for it. and that means bucks, steady bucks.
Shop classes were removed because the friggin lawyers sued because someone might get hurt. Not that people actuallly
DeleteWe have to get our kids to understand there's nothing wrong with getting your hands dirty
ReplyDeleteJD
My daughters went to the university, came out brainwashed into the anti-American left. My son got a trade. The girls will be rent-slaves for the foreseeable future. The son and his wife (and the bank) own a house. The son is a middle child. If i had to do it all.over again, I would not send the girls to the university.
ReplyDeleteThis has been big for 10+ years in GA, AL & SC, especially in SC, due to Volvo Car, BMW & MB Sprinter (MB is assembly only) Plants, plus all the nearby suppliers. When Nissan was building the Titan Plant in MS, they sent oodles of hires to Greenville Tech (SC).
ReplyDeleteThis is long overdue.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately some parents do not see apprentiship as a good paying job, no debt. They push their kids to the same path as them degree wise.
ReplyDeleteI've spent my whole life in Manufacturing, eventually landing in Quality Assurance. It's been a good life, but disheartening to see manufacturing jobs go overseas. A few years ago, I was reading about Apple telling its Chinese FoxConn plant it was going to need to produce 2 million more iPads than had originally been anticipated. In ONE WEEK, FoxConn was able to hire 18,000 people, including 5,000 people with Associates Degrees in Quality Control practices. Where in America could you find 18,000 people already trained in basic manufacturing skills? Nowhere. We need to support our Trade Schools and Community Colleges.
ReplyDeleteOne of my grandsons is planning on entering a trade. The other is too smart for his own good and plans on attending U. My two step-granddaughters are both in the local School Of The Arts and everyone's so proud. They are talented but art won't make them a living. We kept our son and his first family from living under a bridge for ten years and we are too old to do it again. They're on their own.
ReplyDeleteA large national elevator company near me has five apprenticeship openings and only had two applicants, and the starting pay is $45k with unlimited overtime. Once they are done with the two year program employees can easily make six figures, and they can’t get people to apply!
ReplyDeleteElevator biz near me is all union mafia controlled. if you aint connected to the mafia union, you aint getting hired.
Deleteit depends, my niece is an accountant and earned $130K last year sitting in a cushy chair in an air conditioned office.
Deleteor you can work your fingers to the bone in the trades to earn that. and usually get injured doing it. im in the trades, I work with underground storage tanks, but if I had been smarter and had money, Id definitely have gotten a degree , you always earn more sitting on your ass in an office than workin outside.,
that said, the only trades worth getting into are something that requires you to obtain a state license, like plumbing or electrical, having either of those licenses, is literally a license to print money,
trucking is overrun with foreigners and wont ever be a good paying job again.