I'm ready to sign up. When I took an apprenticeship test at work I didn't score high enough to get into the trades. I was told that if I took classes related to the program I could take the test again. I asked what my weakest area was so I would know which classes to take and was told that math was my weakest area. Since I had just finished tutoring my wife in college algebra, explained things to her that her professor couldn't, and got her a passing grade, I just about sh*t myself. That was my WEAKEST area and I didn't pass the test because of it? The people in my class who became apprentices were... an American Indian guy, a Mexican/Hispanic guy, a black guy, two white women, and a black woman (extra points for being a double minority). I worked with all these people and have an idea how smart they were, or were not. The company wanted six people and no white men need apply. White men are a minority and we get disciminated against on a daily basis. I say it's all BULLSH*T. Stupid people shouldn't get promoted over smart people because of their gender or skin color. It affected how much money I was able to make, and I had to go out on permanent disability because the big white guys get all the sh*t jobs and my body finally gave out on me. In my shop if a black person didn't want to do a job they just said "racism" and the foreman put a white person on the job so the company didn't get sued. Women got equal pay but didn't have to do equal work. One guy said the next time he got put on a job he didn't want to do he was just going to whine "my p*ssy hurts" "I can't do that job". It didn't work for him but things like that always worked for the women who had excuses why they couldn't do the job.