[Let welders teach welding.]

NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS PLENTY OF WELDERS. SCHOOLS CAN'T HIRE THEM.

A high school in my district just dropped welding and small engine repair. The reason given: nobody to teach it.

That is happening all over New Hampshire. This state is full of welders, mechanics, electricians and machinists. People with twenty years in the trade who would teach a class tomorrow.

State law says they can't.

[Ross Berry explains the bill in a 60-second video]

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"We have shut out people in the trades that could teach this stuff to our kids, and it's pretty needless."
— Ross Berry, September 2026

New Hampshire already lets you teach without a teaching certificate. But you need a bachelor's degree. A welder with twenty years under the hood usually does not have one. So the people who know the trade are the people the law shuts out of the classroom. In every town in the state.

So I filed a bill.

FIVE YEARS IN THE TRADE. THAT IS THE QUALIFICATION.

Five years working in the craft, or a current license, and you can teach it at any New Hampshire high school. That is the whole bill. No bachelor's degree required to show a kid how to run a bead or rebuild a carburetor.

Kids in New Hampshire should learn a trade from someone who has done it. That is not too much to ask.

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Thank you,

Ross Berry
State Representative
Weare & Goffstown

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