Why Schools Need To Bring Back Shop Class. Skilled labor is in increasingly high demand as manufacturing jobs trickle back into the country, but as shop class has steadily disappeared from the high school. California assemblyman mike gipson (d) wants to require high schools to teach shop class (ap photo/rich pedroncelli,) new legislation set to be.
Illustration by sam whitney/the new york times. As a vocational education course, shop class would teach students woodwork, metalwork, and mechanics, amongst other preliminary trades.