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