Schooling is great to show the new hires the tools we use and where to use them, climbing poles (clean and new ones), hooking up banks, you know, stuff like that. What school can never teach them is work habits that will keep you alive. Things like not putting wire in your bucket. Not putting your hands over your head while on a pole or in a sub. Looking up before walking under the pole or touching the truck, etc. etc.. Those can only be learned from spending years with experienced lineman in the field, not in the controlled conditions of a training facility. These companies need to wake up and realize this is a recipe for disaster. They waited way to long to start hiring to replace the aging workforce. Now they are trying to get them to journeymen ASAP and it just doesn't work that way. Another thing is that these young kids coming up are only looking at how fast they can get the big money, not taking the time to learn the job and pay their dues. Hell, I wasn't even allowed to get in a bucket until my fourth year of apprenticeship. You were in your hooks. And everyone wonders why we are killing linemen at a record pace. SHAME !!!!