Today it wouldn’t be there because all the tools would be in storage and the room repurposed for some other kind of class.
(Source: I took AP Physics circa 2000 in the large room that used to be my school’s shop, and wished I could’ve had the chance to use the equipment. It even had two generations of equipment – manual table saws and such stuffed in a large walk-in closet, and CNC mills, oscilloscopes, and other sorts of “high-tech” stuff still sitting out – and none of it was still being used.)
Unused CNC mills? Damn. When I was in college I did an internship at IBM’s TJ Watson research center. They had so much fantastic shit and nowhere to store it. There was a scanning (or a tunneling?) electron microscope sitting in the hallway outside of our lab.
Depends on the school. The high school my kids graduated from offered all forms of trade classes, from home maintenance to welding, cabinetry, auto, etc. They graduated in 2017, 19, & 20.
There was a moment in time several years back where there was talk of cutting back on those classes, but a large enough group of students kept enrolling in them, so the classes stayed.
My school system did have a high school like that, but it was only one for the whole county and you had to transfer to it instead of going to your normal zoned school. And it was only for kids trying to learn a trade, which meant it didn’t offer stuff like AP classes. So yeah: if you were a a “smart” kid planning on college, you didn’t get to have any hands-on sorts of classes. It’s fucked up.
Today it wouldn’t be there because all the tools would be in storage and the room repurposed for some other kind of class.
(Source: I took AP Physics circa 2000 in the large room that used to be my school’s shop, and wished I could’ve had the chance to use the equipment. It even had two generations of equipment – manual table saws and such stuffed in a large walk-in closet, and CNC mills, oscilloscopes, and other sorts of “high-tech” stuff still sitting out – and none of it was still being used.)
Unused CNC mills? Damn. When I was in college I did an internship at IBM’s TJ Watson research center. They had so much fantastic shit and nowhere to store it. There was a scanning (or a tunneling?) electron microscope sitting in the hallway outside of our lab.
Depends on the school. The high school my kids graduated from offered all forms of trade classes, from home maintenance to welding, cabinetry, auto, etc. They graduated in 2017, 19, & 20.
There was a moment in time several years back where there was talk of cutting back on those classes, but a large enough group of students kept enrolling in them, so the classes stayed.
My school system did have a high school like that, but it was only one for the whole county and you had to transfer to it instead of going to your normal zoned school. And it was only for kids trying to learn a trade, which meant it didn’t offer stuff like AP classes. So yeah: if you were a a “smart” kid planning on college, you didn’t get to have any hands-on sorts of classes. It’s fucked up.