This Illinois High School Won’t Give Up on Its Heavy-Equipment Education

March 31, 2025

Gus Schmid graduated from Johnsburg High School in 1996 with a commercial driver’s license license, thanks to the school’s career and technical education classes. Fast forward more than 20 years later, and he’s back at the public school in Johnsburg, Illinois, where his daughter is a student. He visited the shop area after being asked to volunteer. “One part of me was so happy to see so much of the equipment that was there when I was there,” he says. “And another part of me was so sad and heartbroken that that same equipment was still there.”

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