” ‘Where should statistical consulting be taught, and does this include high schools?’. Perhaps the statistical consulting courses at the post‐graduate level assume that the aim is to produce competent statisticians at the end of the course. If this is so, then the prerequisite of statistical methodology skills is understandable. … the teaching of statistical consulting to younger students, possibly with little statistical knowledge, is not inappropriate if the aims include recruiting students to the statistics profession, improving attitudes to statistics, motivating and enhancing the learning of statistical techniques and statistical thinking, and teaching more generic skills such as technical communication.”  Taplin, R. (2007).Enhancing statistical education by using role‐plays of consultations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 170(2), 267-300.

Classes based on, or with a component of, consulting can be a feature of a school’s approach to mathematics and statistics. 

• An excellent example of this is Emma Chiappetta’s statistics class, Spring 2019, at Wasatch Academy, an independent boarding school in central Utah.
• Roy Tomlinson, reports (May 24, 2017) on his students’ experience consulting with with the GE Healthcare manufacturing facility in Hino, Japan.