Lee Michaels wrote:
I thought that all high school teachers were safety fanatics. Apparently
not.

I have been at the local high school and watched a 8x24x6" deep drawer
being thinned down to 4" deep on the 12" Powermatic tablesaw. The
teacher was in front of the blade holding the drawer on end as he
pushed it through. There was a student on the left side, reaching over
to help stabilise the drawer and another on the back side of the saw
doing the same. Six hands on the drawer, no safety glasses, no guards,
no pushsticks. There was an 8" jointer with the guard removed (broken)
and the metal fence for the bandsaw laying on the table ,across the
cutterhead. The shaper had a 3"wing cutter mounted on the spindle, no
guards and the table covered with paint cans. Kids wearing hooded
sweatshirts with the pull strings dangling down using the 6" belt
sander. Many more things just too numerous to detail. 100%
incompetence, but the bumper sticker mentality prevails, "We don't care
how you do it up North". Sam