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Originally Posted by ar0ck
Consider yourself lucky your school even has an automotive shop! They just cut wood shop from my HS!
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Believe me, I know it! The problem is, there are less and less colleges offering certification for these technical classes, so it's cheaper for the district to just get rid of it once the teacher retires. My hometown high school cut auto shop my sophomore year, and that was in 1989!
Fortunately, we still have a wood shop class at work, and I get along with the teacher well. He let me work in the shop on my lunch to build a door for my daughter's new bedroom so it would match the other doors in my house. I haven't done a woodworking project since the 7th grade (built a small cabinet for my boombox) but this door came out awesome!
It's a shame that districts get rid of these classes. I bet in another 10-15 years, craftsman-type jobs (tiling, masonry, carpentry, mechanics, electricians, plumbers, etc.) will be making big $$. Most kids these days don't want to learn how to do this stuff, and they will wind up paying a fortune to someone who can do it down the road.