Remember High School Shop? Wood, metal, automotive shop? High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as our expert educators prepared students to become “knowledge workers.” It was their imperative during the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, which was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy. Problem is the administrators of our educators have failed to allow teachers to teach and students to think outside of the box and be creative… let alone the fact that many of our High School graduates read at a 5th grade level, cannot balance a check book and leave school without the ability to read a tape measure…. Metric or standard. The utopian vision of the future has not come to pass. First of all not everyone is destined for college. Not everyone is college material. And please don’t give me this ‘every child should be able to grow up to be what ever they wish to be. College is a necessity in today’s world.’ How many wanted to be President? An Astronaut? An Environmental Scientist? We can dream but there is reality. Hell, I would love to be a simple cowboy. But the pay stinks and the hours are to long! Reality and economics are the truth. But now, as the technology age begins to take over everything there still are some basic facts and needs in society. We don’t need more drones plodding their way in the corporate cubicles of non-existence and drudgery. More importantly, now more that ever, we need someone who can actually do things such as fix our cars, unclog our toilets, and build our houses. We need people with skills not just a piece of paper that will take decades to pay the loans off on.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:52:42 +0000
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