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Gully Foyle wrote:
What more are schools expected to do?

There is much excellent work done within the timetabled restrictions. As a
teacher trained in Technology I'm disappointed that the subject has been
watered down - but still found time to teach the use of a range of hand tools,
technical drawing, problem solving, permitted power tools (eg pillar drill but
not band saw), demonstrate use of non-permiited power tools, and take a team
of kids to the final of the Steel Challenge Competition. What there generally
isn't time for is long-term projects - but then all kids learn all aspects of
Technology, and in school I never encountered IT, textiles, food technology,
business studies, nor studied aspects of industrial production methods. Indeed
- at my grammar (not technical grammar) school we didn't even touch upon
metalwork nor work in plastics either.

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