Did you have woodshop class?

My grandfather always goes on about how awesome woodshop class was. How it taught him skills that would fuel a lifelong passion of his.
Of course I didn't have woodshop at my highschool. After all, someone could shoot up a school is a hammer...

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We have it at the school I teach at.

Unfortunately, most modern students have lost the ability to think critically and solve problems.

Unless the teacher sits there giving explicit step by step instructions for each individual student over and over again, many of them fail the course for not completing projects.

We had had woodshop in middle school. There was also trade courses in high school but only students interested in trades take them. If you're planning on university you take the science and math courses instead

Where I'm from our highschool didn't have woodshop. That's a generalist class we could take in junior highschool. In highschool more complex specialized courses were offered like welding, glassblowing, autotech, manual machining, 3d modeling/cnc and fine finish woodwork. I graduated more than 10 years ago but less than 25, and from talking to people in the intervening years I got the impression that my jr high and highschool experience was not the norm. Especially so when I would tell people about the unsupervised full lab chemistry exercise they had us do 2nd semester of 8th grade.

>someone could shoot up a school is a hammer...
What's with this influx of low-effort stock-photo slide threads with absolute shit grammar and no proofreading?

Glad to hear it's still alive at least. what do you teach user?

I teach visual art.

I was considering switching over to industrial arts, but it's depressing all around. We have too many kids who get placed in these elective courses who do not want to be there. makes it hard to teach the kids that actually want to be there.

no but I will cherish the insight and edification at which I arrived in Holocaust class forever. Remember the 6 million periods

>with a hammer
You're a nigger, digits confirm.

In middle school i took woodworking, printing class (paper and clothing), mechanical drawing. I did other trades in high school like autocad2000, computer programming classes but the teacher had a stroke so it was doom or duke nukem networking class. But yeah all that stuff was a good time.

I had a holohoax class as well. They really do take full advantage of adolescent naivety to push
>muh shoah

I hated wood shop. I was always afraid of cutting my fingers off.

If only attendance wasn't compulsory...

It was optional at our high school

I took drafting and other architecture courses

Ended up going to uc berkeley for architecture

Now im doing a masters at southern california institute of arch

Arch is a good study

its american hours...

i had woodshop class and i hated it. my dad loved it though, so i always had very sophisticated and nice looking work pieces.

I tok a year in trade school doing carpentry but my class mates nad teachers were fucking loud and retarded so I barely learned anything.
I wish I tried again on another school because I'd love to make things like my own shed and furniture

>We have too many kids who get placed in these elective courses who do not want to be there. makes it hard to teach the kids that actually want to be there.
The fact that the modern school system has morphed into a glorified daycare that happens to share floorspace with a place for legitimate learning, and nobody is willing to call a spade a spade for fear of losing funding is the greatest tragedy of all.

We had it in my junior high school (grades 7-9) though I didn't take it. I did some woodworking at home at that time, though I was more into survivalism, Bear Grylls, etc at that age so I spent way more time doing bushcraft stuff on our property. I was able to take a few semesters of AutoCAD classes in high school though, so that was cool, and influenced my greater career path in the long run.

I remember learning about the hall-of-cost as early as 5th grade though I think at the time, I knew about it already because I remember I was never surprised to hear about it. I also remember in 8th grade, my history class feels like it was almost entirely dedicated to it, and we even watched Schindler's List in class. I was in AP History in high school and we actually didn't touch on it any more than anything else, though now that I'm an adult, I realize that teacher was based af.

I agree. I think the shutdown will change the way that we do education from here on forward.

I'm hoping that more students can opt out of classes that they don't enjoy by taking them (or an equivalent) online.

Its terrible. I'm considered a monster because I'm a pro-school-choice conservative.

We had a mumbling senile wood teacher and we just fucked around almost getting ourselves killed with the tools.

Oh and we made wooden bullets to stick into the air hose nozzles and shot them at the nerds.

Good times.

Ironically I learned all my shop skills by spending all 4 years of high school in the theatre department. Also a few years in college.

Built everything from a working Carriage (For Cinderella) to a chair that disposes of bodies (Sweeney Todd.)

One time we even built the whole front of a house and a front yard for a set.

We had it for the first 2 years I was there then it got removed and replaced with a classroom. Shame, but biggest shame was that we had a plastics program and if you took it all the way to plastics 3 you could graduate and immediately get a job making $60k a year. But the equipment was sold to buy t shirt making machines. Fucking absolute waste.

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We just started a "Set Design" class, and it looks like it could be a lot of fun.

I remember that I forged a knife and made a wooden handle to it

Oh yes they also made gym optional in my old highschool.

I can see why they got rid of it. You wouldnt want the goys to be making money right out high school. You need 4 more years of loans to make money.

Graduated from HS in 2010. We had woodshop, and metals, and small engines. Hands down the best, and most useful classes I took throughout my schooling career. Including college.

i had it in middle school and it was a total waste of time

we put wood glue on everything and fucked around on bandsaws

i think the only thing i made was a birdhouse... it looked like shit

kek.

you're just not very talented

Sounds like it was a waste of time because you didn't apply yourself.