"Joe Bemier" wrote in message

Your point may be correct but it does not address the issue of
teaching kids -at a very impressionable stage- on a piece of equip
that cannot hurt them. While certainly there is a safety benefit
provided as long as they are using the schools saw, dont you think
they will have a higher probability of injury when they move to the
real world?

Not really as I look at it. Anyway you want to look at it, it takes a pretty
big leap of faith to push a body part into a spinning saw blade, Sawstop or
not. It's just not something that one can get lazy about in my opinion. I
don't think anyone is going to get complacent with their fingers and I
certainly wouldn't get complacent using a Sawtop knowing there's less chance
of losing a finger. I can't comment on other people. Kickbacks and flying
pieces of wood are still a definite possibility on a Sawstop and that type
of incident are by far more common on any type of tablesaw than losing a
finger. It's not as if the Sawtop is suddenly going to prevent any type of
injury, just most of the more serious ones.