Kansas City Training For Skilled Workers Suffers Amid COVID

A recent report reveals that practical training for the workforce suffers despite growing demand and desperate need for higher paying jobs. 

Even worse . . . 

CHECK MORE PROOF THAT 'VIRTUAL LEARNING' WAS NEVER THE SOLUTION IN LOCAL CLASSROOMS!!!

Here's today's lesson in local practicality . . .

While most lecture courses were able to go virtual, it was nearly impossible for on-site labs and workshops, where students learn by working with tools, machinery and equipment.

“All of the hands-on courses were dramatically shaken to the core because we could not meet in person,” said Kendall Davis, a welding instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City.

Davis said he had a 72% failure rate in the spring of 2020.

“When we finally did get together, with social distancing and masking, all the lectures and the information that we [studied] … they basically forgot all that information,” he said. “I almost had to reteach lecture courses, and it was quite a learning curve”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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