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Du> We had worthwhile home-ec (where you actually learned by doing for cooking,
Du> food safety, balancing a budget, cleaning)... all manner of
Du> shop classes -- I took auto, metal and wood shop classes -- we had
Du> typing and programming classes too, and teachers who'd stay after
Du> school for hours encouraging and helping you.
I was the guy there who said I wished I'd taken auto shop and typing. To
get access to tools and lifts for free to work on your own car on your
time would have been amazing.
This was back in the 1980s, when silicon valley still manufactured
electronics. We had an electronics lab where people learned about logic
circuits, LEDs, breadboards and made basic circuits in high school.
Du> I look at what the same school system offers now and it's pretty depressing
Du> -- the town has stayed socio-economically similar, but the classes now are
Du> focused almost entirely on academic work, geared toward testing, and they
Du> don't have a single shop class left other than a solitary robotics
Du> offering.
Du> I wonder what killed shop class? Focusing on ranking / test scores?
Du> Bubble-wrapping kids' school lives? Sucking the joy/benefits out of
Du> transitioning from trades to education leaving the schools filled with only
Du> career educators who went from college to teaching without gaining any real
Du> world experience?
Government driving the economy through an education bubble driven by
grants and loans, driving the cost of tuition sky high?
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