"Don White" wrote in message
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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.

There are few things more pathetic than a man who cannot project power in
the kitchen, especially if he's over the age of maybe 25. If the homemaking
courses were formulated by Emeril Lagasse, I'd be impressed.