OCR Text |
Show ' ft - -!. t , -tw- mi v - f - ,') " J j I ( vvv V J rV '- TJ . .-r f; j VOCATIONAL STUDIES By ROSELYN KIRK The painters cleaned their brushes and covered their paint cans. The plumbers gathered up their wrenches as quiting time arrived. Both crews left the house under construction and climbed into school buses to return to Davis Vocational School. THESE SIXTEEN student painters and plumbers were students who were learning a trade while picking up basic education classes to be applied toward high school graduation. gradua-tion. The painting and plumbing jobs, completed under the direction of Hans Flink, painting paint-ing instructor, and Blair Barber, plumbing instructor, have been varied. ON MONDAY both crews were working in Layton repairing a leak in the plumbing plumb-ing in the basement. Painting students were sanding down and puttying woodwork prior to applying the paint undercoat. under-coat. They were working on the house that had been constructed con-structed by Layton High students. The painters and plumbers in this pre-apprentice : programhavealsodonerepair" ' work at the Sheriff's office in Farmington. Plumbers worked in the jail where they plumbed the sinks in the kitchen and repaired plumbing plumb-ing problems in toilets and showers. The painters painted the ceilings and twooffices two weeks ago. MR. FLINK said his painting paint-ing students will complete all the ceiling, wall and woodwork painting in the houses built by students at Viewmont, Clearfield Clear-field and Kaysville High Schools. They have also painted paint-ed for the Davis County Housing Hous-ing Authority. Layton jail, judge's quarters and city offices were also covered with a new coat of paint by the apprentice painters. As an experience in industrial painting, they spent two months at the Davis High Agriculture shop where they gave the premises two coats of paint. MR. BARBER said plumbing plumb-ing students have plumbed at Some students at Viewmont High School are getting valuable experience in vocational areas. These students are spraying lacquer finish on cabinets. Others are studying plumbing. Syracuse City offices, Layton City offices, and have worked on outside restrooms in Sunset City. He said the purpose of the plumbing class is to teach students about tools, and to give them the skills necessary to help them get an apprentice job. "We're not above making mistakes, but if we make them, we correct them," he said. IN MOST cases students sign up for the building trades program for a period of nine months, although students who are in the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) program only receive training for six months. Disadvantaged students in the program receive 50 cents a day, while students in the Community Action Program (CAP) are paid $2.30 an hour for two hours each day. CETA students work for six hours at $2.30 an hour.- i ... . MR. FLINK said the purpose pur-pose of the program is to place students in jobs after they graduate from high school. Last year seven painters, who had acquired painting skills and experience, were placed as painter's apprentices. Kelly Williams, one of the students in the painting class, said he already had some part-time experience as a painter last summer. Kelly hopes to work as a painter's helper again this summer. Mr. Flink explained that "some of the students are available to summer contractors who are looking for students with painting experience." THE PURPOSE of the class is to teach the kids about painting and teach them how to work. We don't make journeyman jour-neyman painters of them. They must work with a painter for four years before they can get a state license." Some of the students spend all day in the painting and plumbing classes. Jerry Poul-son Poul-son said, "I don't like school. I'd rather learn on the job." Jerry is only 16 now. If he stays with the painting program for two years, he will have a trade when he graduates at 18. "I LIKE it because I'm picking up a simple trade," he said. Les Young and Bob Kendall, Ken-dall, two of the students learning learn-ing pre-apprentice plumbing, said they hope to have a job-ready job-ready skill as journeymen plumbers in about three and a half years. Students in the plumbing class work with pipes and fittings, fit-tings, drainage systems and sealing devices, Mr. Barber said. HE SAID the students will return to the house in Layton to do the finish work and hang the sinks. Plumbers Bruce Atwater, Hecta Fuentes, Robert Ferguson, Sherm Olson, Ol-son, Ricky King and Scott Young also learn .about complete plumbing systems and code requirements. Gerald Beaton, director of the Vocational School, said in addition to the plumbing and painting classes, the Davis Vocational School also teaches building trade classes in brick masonry, house wiring and building maintenance. THE BRICK masonry and house wiring classes also work on the houses constructed by Davis students. Classroom instruction in-struction for the building maintenance course is scheduled at the area schools. Mr. Beaton said students sometimes work all day in a school area and pick up some of the credits needed for graduation at night. WHEN A student enters the vocational school, the assessment assess-ment center evaluates his needs. He is interviewed by a counselor and based on tests, the student is guided to the employment plan that is appropriate. |