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My high school had a work study program that was designed for students that weren't planning to attend college (IE: auto mechanic, electrician, cosmetologist).
by colinsidoti 16y ago
My high school had a work study program that was designed for students that weren't planning to attend college (IE: auto mechanic, electrician, cosmetologist). It allowed these students to get a job before they even graduated, and made their job search significantly easier. As a senior, I was the first student to take advantage of work study with the intention of going to college. It took many meetings with the principal and my teachers, but was worth working for a startup in NYC :).
- octover 16y agoI had something similar. We had two programs that you could leave school early for work stuff. They were work release which required being in certain related classes to the job, and internship. I was in to computers, taking the AP CS class, doing the school's website in another unofficial class, but not Novell networking which was the only computer work release class, so I couldn't get work release. However the internship teacher had been a PE teacher at my middle school, and I'd gone to him to ask about it, so when the counselor told us that I didn't qualify, he quickly offered to put me in the internship program. Technically internships were supposed to be unpaid, but I didn't know that. I almost let the cat out of the bag that I was just going to work early at the end of the year presentation on my internship to other students, the teacher and a vice principle, but quickly recovered following my teacher's scramble to cover our asses.