[TheForge] OT school waste

[Bob Ehrenberger]

John,
It's about 35 miles to the comunity college.  My apprentice said that once 
they got to the high school they would put the boys back on a bus and take 
them to the CC for shop. He spent a lot of time on the bus with two rides on 
each end of the day. It could be they didn't want the liability of running a 
shop class.

I went to a really small school (30-50 per class) and the only way to get 
metal shop was to sign up for FFA. I was on the college track so high school 
shop class wasn't even an option, too many college prep classes.

My dad was a machinest/model maker but never did any metal work at home 
because he had all the nice equipment at work.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Allen" <countrymetals at gmail.com>
To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored 
by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT school waste


I was told about 6 months ago that at the Camden County Tech school the tool
and die program was so small that the teacher told me you can apply for
state aid for the class and they would pay the whole thing just to keep tool
and die alive. My shop is over an hour away so it hurts me not to be able to
jump on that. Imagine 25 years from now if nothing changes.  Tool and Die
will either be worth $ 150 an hour or it will all be subed from china. I see
that out of 250 people I graduated with, 175+ are computer people.


-- 
John Allen
Country Metals, LLC
(856) 542-4316 (cell)
(856) 504-0087 (fax)



-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1498/3530 - Release Date: 03/26/11