I am in an electrical apprenticeship is that considered being a full time student?

[TomK100]

Maybe.  According to IRS Publication 17, you are a full-time student if:

A full-time student is a student who is enrolled for the number of hours or courses the school considers to be full-time attendance.

 A school can be an elementary school; junior or senior high school; college; university; or technical, trade, or mechanical school. However, an on-the-job training course, correspondence school, or school offering courses only through the Internet doesn’t count as a school.

Please see IRS Pub. 17 for additional information.  

[MARYFERREL]

THIS DOESN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION.  dOES THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM FALL INTO THE TRADE OR TECHNICAL SCHOOL?

[Hal_Al]

What do the people in charge of the apprentice program tell you when you ask them that question?

 Generally, if you're being paid to work, you are not a student. 

[dolphin13682002]

Because some people are in an Apprenticeship program, they work as well as go to school? Why can this not be answered, it is a genuine question. Also the  class reps aren't the ones that should be answering this question. You think the IRS is going to accept "well my teacher told me so"?

[Hal_Al]

From IRS Publication 501 (page 12):

"Student defined. To qualify as a student, your
child must be, during some part of each of any 5
calendar months of the year:
1. A full-time student at a school that has a
regular teaching staff and course of study,
and a regularly enrolled student body at
the school; or
2. A student taking a full-time, on-farm training course given by a school described in
(1), or by a state, county, or local government agency.
The 5 calendar months don't have to be consecutive.

Full-time student. A full-time student is a
student who is enrolled for the number of hours
or courses the school considers to be full-time
attendance"