Subj : Re: How do you use unix?
To : Nightfox
From : Android8675
Date : Thu Feb 20 2025 09:15 am
Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Dec 17 2024 05:30 pm
> Re: Re: How do you use unix?
> By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Tue Dec 17 2024 01:00 pm
>
> PF> Looking back, the two classes I wish I took were typing and auto shop.
>
> I don't remember auto shop being offered at my high school. I think it
> would have been useful, though I didn't get my driver's license or a car
> until I was 21.
We had Autoshop, Woodworking, Home Economics (full kitchens, taught kids budgeting, cooking, cleaning... you know, stuff they'll use), Photography (B&W, complete with chemicals and dark room), not to mention a world renoun Jazz Band (They got to go to Japan and Monterey Jazz Fests often.) and a 2000+ seat theater.
Stuff I got to do:
3 years photography (love)
a year of auto (learned oil changes, tune ups, tire repair, and got to pull an engine out of a 83 Volvo).
3 years of trumpet (can still play, poorly)
Got to see about 10 different HS productions of various broadway shows.
Today they have NONE of that. What's replaced it? A new football field! Yeah, because that's what kids need, a one in a billion shot at "making it" and a 1:1,000 chance of getting a concussion. Go Team! All the facilities are still there, they just aren't used.
My daughter is going into HS next year (different school), they teach vocational stuff which I think is good (nursing, cooking, etc), but the lack of emphasis on arts, and stuff kids need to survive is lacking around here.
