[modeleng] Re: Swarf!
- From: "dud.one" <dud.one@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:34:30 -0000
I could not agree more so , my son who is just about to leave school in six
months time here in the UK , I asked him where's your items you made in
woodwork and metalwork you know Table , Chair , Toolbox , Adjustable Spanner
, Tool Clamp etc ( sorry wrong it's called Technology ), I have not seen
them , just joking I said " do they not teach you any skills you will need
in the real world when you leave " he reply'd as much as I would like to ,
we are not allowed to use the Lathe and only allowed to use the pillar drill
& grinder when we are supervised , in case we have an accident , and I have
not seen the lathe used in all the years I have been at school , and the
brazing hearth is not even connected up to gas " .
so are we breeding a society of " I can't do it " because I don't have the
skills and it's too dangerous , or i don't have the qualification and the 2
day training course to use the photocopier , or will we ever teach kid's
these days to be self sufficient and learn , no wonder skills are being lost
never to return ....
oh and forgot to say my Son's School is 7th ranking in the country by " Her
Majesty's Inspectors " only 3 month ago and is classed as a Technology
College
wait until he meets the opposite sex and marries , and she ask's him to put
a shelf up or change a light bulb !!!! ..
Dave
Hartlepool UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:10 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Swarf!
>
>
>> So is this lack of numeracy the reason that the kids don't do well in a
>> machine shop course?>
>> And is it perhaps why there aren't that many younger people entering
>> model
>> engineering?>
>> Peter Chadwick
>> Swindon
>
> Peter, out of every new class that attends the shop school, there are a
> few
> students that are good at math, but as a general rule, they are rather
> slow.
> Son gets pretty exasperated at times as he cannot understand how they got
> this far in high school without knowing anything other than sports. There
> is
> a small CNC mill in the class room and since it is computer programmed,
> the
> kids do pretty well with it as most of them have access to computers at
> home. I think the world is going to hell in a handbasket except for the
> Chinese who will soon own everything as they will have the smarts while
> our
> kids get dumbed down to the level of the slowest student.
>
> Jesse in Tennessee USA
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