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A hands-on aviation class that for more than two decades has given Mundelein High School students the chance to build airplanes has been grounded–the victim of budget cuts.
The once-popular class was facing low enrollment, school officials say, and with a yearly budget of around $75,000, it just had to go.
The class was created in 1980 by now-retired teacher Jim Jackson.
In 1994, Jackson and another pilot flew a student-built, single-engine plane called the Spirit of Mundelein on a 6,000-mile round trip to the North Pole.
