Very nice work! I'm sure you're really proud of her!
Originally posted by bajacrazy
It’s so sad that many schools are eliminating woodworking shops for the lack of interest. My father was a woodshop or an Industrial art teacher and for the last two years before retiring had starting teaching Robotic Engineering because of the lack of interest in the wood shop.[
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While I would have loved to take a Robotics Engineering course in HS, I would have loved woodshop too. But in my school (20 years ago) woodshop was not a course that college bound kids should take. There was a certain snobbery that was impressed on us, and woodshop was one of the courses for the poor kids who were not college material so they could learn a useful trade to eke out some kind of living.
I thought that sounded weird at the time, but I went along with it. But the older I get, the more I realize it was a large pile of steaming horse-hockey! I now think that many of the courses I was steered away from would probably have benefitted me more in everyday life than the ones I took. [
] I hope to guide my kids better than I was.
Eddie