Article: At Tech, prospective students browse School to get $50 million new building is choosy in picking its pupils

Dennis Krueger and his 14-year-old son, Dennis Jr., went shopping for a high school Saturday morning and ended up at the south side's Milwaukee Trade & Technical High School along with more than 100 other parents and students.

There, the Kruegers heard school officials tout the school, including plans to replace the aging 94-year-old building with a state-of-the-art $50 million school opening just in time to graduate Dennis Jr. in 2002.

But school officials didn't have to convince Dennis Sr. of the advantages of Milwaukee Tech: he and five brothers graduated from the school then called Boys Tech in the 1960s. "My father wanted us all to learn a trade, said that would help us," Dennis ...

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