Re: Old School
By: Dux to All on Thu Jan 02 2025 11:42 pm
> I was thinking about how lucky I was -- without realizing it at the time of
> course -- to go to a public school that offered so many classes that weren't
> focused on academics.
> We had worthwhile home-ec (where you actually learned by doing for cooking,
> food safety, balancing a budget, cleaning)... all manner of shop classes -- I
> took auto, metal and wood shop classes -- we had typing and programming
> classes too, and teachers who'd stay after school for hours encouraging and
> helping you.
> This was in the mid-1990s and it's still wild to me to think that they let 16
> years old's drive their 20 year old 4500lb domestic beasts into a repair bay,
> put them up on a 2-post lift, and do actual work in a semi-supervised
> environment (I think we had a 10 kids and 1 instructor, there were two
you're lucky. i went to hs and was done in 95.
They didn't have that at my highschool. They had a shop class but they didn't
do much. in middle school we had home ec and shop class. in home ec we just
cooked a few things. We had sewing as well. I can not remember how to thread a
sewing machine. We didn't learn how to balance a budget or anything.
i think what downscaled or eliminated a lot of those courses are insurance
reasons. kids got hurt in shop and even in home ec with sewing.
> In high school I spent hours after school working in the Mac lab which was
> filled with Centris 610's -- we were learning on Think Pascal and would
> travel around to different HS programming competitions (most of the time it
> was a team of 4 selected and we'd pile into the teacher's LeSabre on a
> weekend and he'd drive us an hour to a nearby college hosting the event).
we had computer courses in iigs. nothing serious and no programming.
we just typed up assignments.
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