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The trades also need our best and brightest.
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting the Sno-Isle Skills Center, which provides technical training for upper-level students at some 14 school districts in the area.

Students typically spend half a day at their home high school and the other half at the skills center working with computers, learning various construction trades, studying how to be a dental or veterinary assistant or gathering skills in business, marketing, culinary arts, fashion or criminal justice.

Last week”s visit was a program set up for U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., to give adults and young people the chance to talk about why so few people are joining the trades these days.

The bottom line is that most kids today are being pushed to go to college by both their parents and their school districts.

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