Re: Old School
By: Dux to All on Thu Jan 02 2025 11:42 pm
> I wonder what killed shop class? Focusing on ranking / test scores?
I suspect it was not profitable for the school. Real workshops are expensive to
keep. Also, interest in trades is vanishing among young people.
My high-school had tons of well equiped workshops, but that is because the cente
r was designed to be a trade training center and academic plans were an aftertho
ught. They had engine labs and electronics labs and whatever have you because ba
ck in the day they trained professionals to fix engines and radios.
The advantage is if you were taking academic studies instead of learning a trade
you would still get access to the labs from time to time. Designing a PCB on a
piece of paper is nice, building it in a lab is golden. Watching the bully assho
le get splashed with boric acid because he didn't follow safety instructions is
priceless.
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