My Hot Take On Trump Diverting $3 Billion From Harvard To Trade Schools | Hot Takes

New Mexico has apprentice electricians earning over $100,000 a year!!! We need more good tradesmen and women.

84-year-old PhD physicist once a professor and subsequently always a student I support the transition of this money to the trade schools where it can be appreciated and not just be expected!

In the 90's I had a counselor (Mr. Harter) call me into his office and said 3 things are going to happen to me. I'm going to die young due to drug overdose, I'm going to end up in jail or I'm going to become a welder. He was correct I was going down a path I could not return from. He told me there is a program at the local college that high school Junior / Seniors would go to the college for half the school day and learn how to weld. I did this for both junior and senior year. I believe to this day that it saved me and made me the man I am. I became a certified welder for the next 15 years.

Trade schools and homeless veterans.

Finally, some support for the hardest working Americans!

Regular school bored me to tears. I was a D+ student... but I lived for and excelled in shop classes (straight A's), I took print shop, small engine repair, metal shop, wood shop, and home economics where I learned to bake and sew, and 2 years of BOCES aviation mechanics. Those shop classes got me through High School and through Life so far!

I'm 38 and have 20 years in the Pipefitting trades and I couldn't be happier. We need youth in the trades and this would be a great first step

My daughter will be starting culinary training this year, and my son wants to be a motorcycle mechanic. I couldn’t be more proud of both of them for following their hearts into the trades. ❤

My son and I both went to trade school, he's a mechanic, and I became a cabinet maker

My dad was a commercial refrigeration technician for 40 years. He worked everywhere from ice cream production plants, data centers, restaurants and even morgue walk-in refrigerators in hospitals. He was never out of work (actually, he had TOO much work), and he commanded a good salary that rivaled college educated professionals because he was not only highly skilled at what he did, but he was in a trade that was considered to be essential in modern society. We need skilled trade workers like electricians, carpenters, welders, plumbers, mechanics, etc to keep our society going. Blue collar skilled labor is the backbone of our country.