{"id":26809,"date":"2025-05-20T01:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trade-classes-are-booming-at-this-wisconsin-high-school-as-students-eye-six-figure-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:06:13","slug":"trade-classes-are-booming-at-this-wisconsin-high-school-as-students-eye-six-figure-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trade-classes-are-booming-at-this-wisconsin-high-school-as-students-eye-six-figure-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade classes are booming at this Wisconsin high school as students eye six-figure jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>At Middleton High School in Wisconsin, shop class is back \u2014 and booming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For three decades, Justin Zander has shaped both wood and minds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My goal is to teach them comfort and skills so they become comfortable with a few skills and those skills will be transferable from many different <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/trade-schools-becoming-more-attractive-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">trades<\/a><\/span>,&#8221; Zander told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>The revival is fueled by the demand for tradespeople. With some top earners in\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/vocational-college-trade-school-merced\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">blue-collar jobs<\/a><\/span>\u00a0like electricians and plumbers now making six-figure salaries, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, such positions are now considered gold-collar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It used to be kids were interested in it as a sideline. Now the kids are interested in it because it could lead to a good-paying job for the future,&#8221; Zander said. <\/p>\n<p>Middleton High School built a $90 million campus in 2022, putting <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/massachusetts-trade-school-teen-welder\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">trades<\/a><\/span> in the spotlight. It&#8217;s part of a larger trend embraced by 27 states that increased spending on technical education by an average of $182 million from 2012 to 2022, according to Advance CTE, a nonprofit that supports career technical education across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Aidan Down is among more than 75% of students at Middleton who take tech education classes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a pretty easy option to go into a trade job, especially if you have some experience in these classes,&#8221; Aidan said.<\/p>\n<p>Interest in trade schools has nearly doubled since 2017, according to market research firm Validated Insights, Inc.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Meanwhile, university enrollment has declined slightly since the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Center for Education Statistics found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that&#8217;s really important is showing kids even just from the get-go that college isn&#8217;t the only option,&#8221; said Thalia Madden, a senior taking building construction.<\/p>\n<p>At Middleton, students can take woodworking, welding and robotics. Students are learning to program the same kind of industrial robots used in factories across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo Zwettler got his hands dirty in the same classrooms at Middleton. He landed a job right out of school at Zuern Building Products, putting the skills he learned directly to work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shop classes helped a lot,&#8221; Zwettler said.<\/p>\n<p>Now working in the trades as a yard manager, he said he hears the same debate come up often: whether to go straight into the workforce or take on college debt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh yeah, we always give each other a bunch of crap about that,&#8221; he said, laughing. &#8220;Like, you go into a four-year college, you&#8217;re gonna lose all this money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Zander, his return on investment is introducing students to a profitable way of life he loves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not opposed to having kids smiling when they leave the room,&#8221; Zander said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing else,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/ian-lee\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ian  Lee<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Ian Lee is a CBS News correspondent based in London, where he reports for CBS News, CBS Newspath and CBS News 24\/7. 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