Thomas Edison High School of Technology and technical student organization, SkillsUSA. Typically, students spend half of their day at Thomas Edison, and the other half at their home school. Thomas Edison offers two sessions: the morning session from 8:05 AM to 10:35 AM, and the afternoon session from 11:20 AM to 1:50 PM. Thomas Edison is also the headquarters for the Montgomery County Students Trades Foundations Office. Thomas Edison offers nineteen programs for students to choose from. Courses take one, two or three years to complete, depending on the curriculum. For the 2016-2017 school year, Thomas Edison has a total of 576 enrolled students, 70.3% male
Thomas Edison Thomas Edison's son, Thomas Alva Edison Jr.. became a problem for his father and his father's business. Starting in the 1890s, Thomas Jr. became involved in snake oil products and shady and fraudulent enterprises producing products being sold to the public as ""The Latest Edison Discovery"". The situation became so bad that Thomas Sr. had to take his son to court to stop the practices, finally agreeing to pay Thomas Jr. an allowance of $35.00 () per week, in exchange for not using the Edison name; the son began using aliases, such as Burton Willard. Thomas Jr., suffering from alcoholism,