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Straight to Trades Ownership

Straight to Trades Ownership
Dorman Vick has been a vocational education instructor in the Boerne ISD for the past 21 years. Photo by Jonathan Mallard, courtesy of The Kendall Gentleman.

Pilot program giving BISD vocational students path to business ownership

As a Boerne High School senior in 2006, Michael Ethridge saw the benefits of learning a vocation when he signed up for Dorman Vick’s ag-mechanics welding class.

And now, almost 20 years later, that experience has led Ethridge to team up with his former teacher and offer Boerne Independent School District students a “Straight to Trades Ownership” program.

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