Why School Districts Are Spending Millions to Revive High-School Shop Classes

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  Here's your money briefing for Thursday, March 6.

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  I'm Mariana Aspuru for the Wall Street Journal.

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  Driven by rising costs of higher education and a tough job market for white collar workers,

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  high schools are investing in the hands-on wood, metal, and machinery skills learned in shop classes.

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  Economic downturn or not, AI or not, you're going to need someone who's going to fix your toilet,

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  you're going to need someone who's going to repair your air conditioning in it.

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  And so there's a sense that these are jobs that are always going to be there.

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  We'll talk with Wall Street Journal reporter Tiping Chen about how these cutting-edge classes are helping students get a jump start on lucrative old-school careers.

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  That's after the break.

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  School districts across the country are spending millions of dollars to expand and revamp high school shop classes.

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  Wall Street Journal reporter Tiping Chen joins me.

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  Tiping, did you take shop classes in high school?

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  I know I didn't.

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  I didn't.

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  It wasn't offered.

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  No, it wasn't even like part of our roster at all, but I always thought I would take it when I was in high school.

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  What kinds of skills are offered during shop classes?

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  It can really run the gamut,

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  but a lot of it is working with tools ranging from learning how to build a birdhouse to something more advanced,

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  learning how to work with different kinds of machining tools,

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