ExcessiveBanter - Reviving the Trades: Don Bosco Returns to the South Shore of Boston - Part 2

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In Part 2 of our Don Bosco Trade High School series on ExcessiveBanter, we dig into the “why” behind the rebirth of this legendary vocational institution.

Hosted by Paul 'Benny' MacLellan — Don Bosco Tech-Boston alum and DBT High Board Member — highlights the urgent demand for skilled workers, with recent studies showing that more than 70% of U.S. contractors report difficulty filling trade positions and that the construction industry alone will need close to half a million additional workers in the next year. Against this backdrop, the return of schools like Don Bosco to the South Shore of Boston comes at exactly the right moment.

We also take a look at how other private and faith-based trade schools across the country — from Mercy Tech in Philly and St. Peter's Career/Tech in Houston, a Catholic network of work-study schools to smaller Catholic and independent technical academies — are successfully combining academics, career training, and values-based education to meet this growing need.

This episode paints a clearer picture of how all of these schools, like Don Bosco Trade High School is not only reviving its own legacy, but positioning itself as part of a broader national movement to restore dignity, purpose, and opportunity in the trades.