[modeleng] Re: ME Classes

Several of the trade classes in our high shool have been eliminated and our 
son is worried that machine shop will be done in next.  We live in a rural 
area and things like machine shop, building trades and welding are very 
helpful.  Several of our son's better students have gone on to work in area 
machine shops and these trades are also necessary to be successful at 
farming or industrial work.

Charles spoke of "money sports" so here goes.  Memphis State University like 
most colleges "needs" money and yet they just gave one of the athletic 
coaches an advance in salary to the tune of one point three  million dollars 
a year ($1,300,000) !!!  Now that is a lot of frog hides for helping a very 
minor part of the students possibly get the chance, I think the odds are 
10,000:1 against, becoming a highly paid pro basketball player.  I wonder 
how the professors in subjects that really matter out in the world feel 
about that??

One of the machine shop students in our son's class was a star basketball 
player and if he decided to not come to machine shop class many days, the 
school officials "overlooked" that fact.

Jesse in Tennessee near the mighty Mississippi River (and New Madrid Fault)

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