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Originally Posted by TheDon
It's a damn shame.
At my high school they took over the shop and made it into a damn pottery class. We don't need a damn pottery class. We needed new tools and more materials so students could learn a trade. My area is full of kids that need to be off the streets and making pottery really isn't a career.
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Off topic, but somewhat germain. My wife a few years ago recieved a NASA explorer schools grant to try to engender an interest in science in school kids. It involved some neat stuff, she and other staff went to several conferences at NASA centers such as the Cape, Nasa Dryden, etc. Wife got to see the shuttle in the VAB adn land an F18 on a carrier in the sim at Dryden, but I digress. Thing is that one of the events was to have actual NASA people visit the school and talk to the students, I think in my wifes case it was some engineers and one of the astronauts. Well, her school was a ghetto school and you'd think there was practically nothing in NASA that would relate to those kids worlds. But some of the engineers were apparently quite a hit when they were talking about the kind of fabrication and stuff that goes on there. Many of the kids were into working on vehicles, customizing, lowriders etc. Quite a few of them were amazed to see the kind of technical stuff that happens behind the scenes in an outfit like NASA. Hopefully it might have awakend them to a world they would not otherwise have thought of. Especially since "shop" classes as I said earlier, have long since dissappeared from our district.
- Peter.
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