Gene Kearns wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:29:42 GMT, Don White
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Gene Kearns wrote:
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This is a *BIG* hot button for me, but this is endemic of no longer
teaching real Industrial Arts in our public schools. Higher education,
from mechanic programs, to engineering programs, to medical programs
all suffer from incoming students that have, in too many cases, never
even held a tool in their hands..... and in almost all cases, save
some rural areas, lack any real experience in using tools or in
dealing with the logic required of fixing everyday items that need
repair or adjustment.....
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You got that right!
When my two sons were in jr high, they had to take homemaking courses
half the year and shop the other half. The pc crowd decided that the
girls whould have equal time hammering, cutting etc. while the boys
learned baking, etc.
I don't mind if the girls want to take shop, but don't force the boys
to be Suzy Homemaker unless they want to.

Actually, about 2,000 years ago, before we were so PC, at my Jr. High
School we had co-ed Home Ec. and Industrial Arts Classes. All of them
were electives and nobody was coerced into either class.....

.... we have NOT moved forward.....

In my high school, the hoodlums took home economics. We thought they were
weird. They were geniuses. That's where the food and the women were.