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My high school (in NYC) had a program called WISE which was just seniors If you had all of your credits, passed all the necessary regents, and didn’t need to make anything up, you could spend your whole senior year in an internship/apprenticeship instead of coming to school and taking classes You would ask a teacher to be your advisor and you would only come into school once a week for an hour to meet with your advisor and discuss your progress and what not Your advisor was in regular communication with whoever was overseeing you at the internship and would get updates on how you were doing Then in June, you would put on an in-depth presentation on what you learned and would have to give a demo of something you learned and you invited your parents, your friends, fellow teachers, etc. During the demo you were required to really break down whatever it was you were teaching - as if you were teaching the audience how to do that thing One of my friends did his apprenticeship at a bike shop, specifically with the mechanic, and for his presentation he did a bunch of repairs on my bike (it was legitimately broken) - he fixed the tires, did a tune up, amongst other things Another friend of mine apprenticed at a BJJ gym and for his demo, he showed how to do a bunch of submissions - I was the lucky volunteer who got submitted A third friend of mine apprenticed at a dental office (he became a doctor) and for his demo, he did a *partial* teeth cleaning (a very modified version) Another student apprenticed at a bakery and for her demo she made something (I can't remember exactly what) I’m not sure if other high schools do something like this - all of the schools my other friends went to didn’t offer anything like this and all of the schools I’ve worked at haven’t offered anything like this I think it would be incredibly beneficial for many high schoolers to do programs like this rather than sitting in class everyday