Originally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
Autoshop and woodshop either. Originally posted by j2photos You are correct sir, its a shame that kids wont learn these valuable skills. I sometimes wonder what the hell these people are thinking. Thats how I know I am getting old.
A private, all male, blue blazer and gray flannel slacks Prep School that I know of closed the Lower School Wood Shop (5th & 6th Grades) one summer in the early 90's and converted the space to math classrooms. At the first subsequent Board Meeting the Headmaster was asked why he had done that. He replied, "Because people who send their children here
buy things they don't
make them."
"Interesting," a Board member said, opening his satchel. "Here's this month's Architectural Digest. Page 67 - the caption next to the woven rush seat footstool - it was made by the brother of the owner of the featured Park Avenue apartment. He graduated with me in 1973 and we each made one of those stools in the shop you just closed."
It was said one could hear a pin drop in the Board Meeting. The following July 1st that Headmaster was elsewhere.
But they still closed the Wood Shop. And that Board Member quietly resigned.