Tech schools
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Need some feedback from anyone that might have went to any of the tech schools that you see offered ie UTI, Wyotech etc. My son is about to graduate and wants to go into this field and is considering going to one of these schools. We talked with the recruiter from Ohio technical college last week and I like what he had to say until I heard the cost. Somewhere in the range of 30 k for a 72 week school. Thats including housing. I am not sure what he would qualify for regarding financial aid but I seriously doubt that it would cover that much of it. He already works after school and on the weekends as a helper in both the body shop and the paint shop and is doing great but I would like to see him accelerate his learning curve quite a bit.
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Chuckhe is better off getting piad to learn while working at a quality shop than he is to pay that kind of money to learn nothing. I know a few people that went to some of those tech schools and they all said they learned more the first 6 months in a shop than they did the entire time at school.
I would be more than happy to train your son for 72 weeks and 1/2 the price of any of those schools will charge 😉[quote=”ding” post=19482]he is better off getting piad to learn while working at a quality shop than he is to pay that kind of money to learn nothing. I know a few people that went to some of those tech schools and they all said they learned more the first 6 months in a shop than they did the entire time at school.[/quote]
I’ve heard the same. I know guys that have gone through those schools, usually with unrealistic expectations worked into their minds, and don’t know anything…. Experience isn’t always the best teacher, but it’s a good one.
In my screwing around with autobody work on my own, I’ve managed to teach myself enough to do my own touch up work, a lot of small projects, and now I’m beginning a full restoration. I got some advice from an uncle over the phone, read for hours on forums like this, and gave it a shot myself. I’d encourage my son to keep working at the shop he’s at and start collecting quality tools of his own.
These are the feelings I have found when searching for feedback on these schools. He has been taking the Autobody course at the vocational school (high school) and I was sold on the idea thinking that it was going to be a lot more structured than what it is now. He has got to paint a few school buses while he has been there but he has learned alot more working up at the shop now. His first car was a 02 Maxima that we got from the insurance auction and he did 90% of the work on it himself. Unfortunately he will get to do it again, he had a slight mishap with a curve and a tree last weekend. We have two guys that I would love to pair him up with in the shop, one is the shop manager, does most of the big hits and the other is a guy that is 60 years old and has been doing this since he was 15, probably the best metalman I have ever seen, still has a file in his box to work out high spots.
Its definately cool to have a job that I can hang out with my kid at. The other guys in the shop look after him and wont let him get into anything that he cant handle so it works out real well.Send him to a few I Car classes and keep him working at the shop.
i was going to teach auto body at a vo-tech school in nyc and during the interview they emphasized the point that my job description was to only teach safety, theory, tools, and process. basically, the role of the school was introduce people into the field and then assist them in finding entry level positions in a shop.
i think all your son needs at this point is to be given repair jobs that challenge him.
This seems to be a very touchy subject. I believe that it depends on the school and the instructor. I attended a Vo Tech today they are call Technology Centers and worked and learn to do work on everything from rebuilding wrecks to collision and restorations and even tractors including train on a chief easy liner frame rack and got certified on it.I also prepared and tested and got my first ASE certifications. As an example i recently work for a company building displays for different companies and work with a young guy that had recently graduated from one of the highly marketed technical schools and paid 15000.00 and had never painted a whole car so check closely and ask a lot of questions.I would check with local tech school and the shops that they work with using there students. I hope that this helps good luck.
I went to UTI in houston,TX. it was a good experiance but if i had to do it all over again i would of kept all the money and started out as a helper a shop. now i am 25k in the hole and it got me nowhere. would of much rather spend 25k on tools then on a school that got me some pieces of paper that no one respects.
i know when i took autobody quite a few years back,a few of the guys in my class were at wyo techm they quit their and came to the vocational school because the shop was bigger and we had more tools.. they said that the commercials made it look better but the shop they used on the commercials was not even the shop thay they used..i went to NMTC in maine and they had a good autobody program and inexpensive. so look at vocational schools,places like wyo tech are like buying nikes u are paying for the name..
I just went to a two year collage and now im getting the rest of my experience on the job.
I think this is the way do it.
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