The new on-campus facility houses two bays, one for holding the painting booth and the other for body work lessons.
Gerry Lane Enterprises donated the facility, while PPG Paints has given much of the paint needed for the work.
The school says 22 students in grades 10-12 are currently enrolled in the career-based paint and body shop class
Prinicipal Jason St. Pierre said the school will provide students with district vehicles that need repairs and painting as their “class projects,” although he said “donated” projects will be considered as well.
http://www.wbrz.com/news/local-high-school-opens-paint-and-body-shop-to-help-train-certify-students
IF this is a typical high school, then WOW, things have progressed a LOT since 1989. This high school has classes for welding, drone flying, carpentry, scaffolding, electrician training...
https://www.facebook.com/Walkerhighschool/
https://www.walkerhigh.org/
The Livingston Parish Literacy and Technology Center has ASE cert training, EMT, nursing, engineering tech, and criminal justice courses... that's amazing to me. The tiny high school I went to (class size 100-110 per graduate year) still taught useless shit like Latin, drafting, and trigonometry. There are no jobs in trig, and I've had 30 years of never using any trig, or drafting, and of the 3, I'd say I've looked up more latin phrases compared to never looking up or using any trig or drafting
Yup, my Latin sure did help me driving heavy trucks.........
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ReplyDeleteOur high school doesn't have vocational classes, but we have a vocational school next door that serves the whole county, with electrical, carpentry and automotive training. One of my son's classmates told me he's studying to be an electrician there.
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