Why Michigan Employers Have Difficulty Filling Skilled Trades Jobs

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6. We do the same here

Have some pretty good courses at the High School and will pay for community college courses once they are exhausted under Post Secondary Education Opportunity. My daughter, who is planning on engineering, is signed up for Metal Tech I and II and Consumer Automotive. She did not get into Automotive II, but she tried for the courses as a senior and probably would have got that course if she started trying for these courses as a junior. We also have a CNC course.

Of course we are a relatively wealthy suburban High School in a former sundown town. It is interesting that our local major employer expends considerable effort in encouraging our kids to go into these trades (a friend's kid, who was good in these classes elected to go for law enforcement at a community college instead of following up on his courses - he has to find his own way but he could have had a pretty secure life if he had elected to follow up on the machining classes).