This article highlights Marty Supple's innovative automotive program at Artesia High School and Cerritos College, where students gain hands-on experience, earn college credits, and secure apprenticeships.
Marty Supple, an automotive instructor at Artesia High School, works with students during a class. Photos by Ben Gibbs, ACE/GRID Solar Program Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering statewide issues that affect all Californians. Sign up fora commentary forum aiming to broaden our understanding of the state and spotlight Californians directly impacted by policy or its absence.
Learn more In Marty Supple’s automotive courses, students are elbow deep in car engines, sliding under half-open chassis and plugging away at what looks like tangles of wires in dashboards. These teens are getting high school and college credits, at the same time they’re earning above minimum wage as apprentices at nearby auto dealerships. He teaches at Artesia High School in Lakewood, where nearly 9 out of 10 students receive free and reduced-price meals, and at Cerritos College, a community college in Los Angeles County. The campuses partner in a dual enrollment program where students undergo nine weeks of instruction and nine weeks of work. Often that’s at Cerritos Auto Square, an auto mall a few miles from the schools that boasts 10,000 vehicles for sale at about two dozen dealerships. After completing the program, students get a certificate and an associate’s degree. Supple’s courses are full at Artesia High. He also runs summer courses that start at 7:30 a.m. and last eight hours a day, four days a week, to replicate typical workdays. The summer courses have waiting lists, too. Supple and I talked about how he imparts old-fashioned work values along with new tech know-how. His comments have been edited for length and clarity.My theory: We’re all different, and thank god. There are some seniors that are bouncing off walls and barely learning, and then I have some freshmen coming in and they’re brilliant. Why would I limit anybody coming in? I’ve accepted freshmen in all my classes since I started teaching in 2006, so this is not an experimen
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