On Jun 12, 5:18*pm, "William Wixon" wrote:
"Ed Huntress" wrote in message

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When I was in school, these were every boy's favorite, and almost
the
only useful education we got.

I would say litigation.

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Something to be aware of in this subject is what happened to
industrial arts teaching as far back as the late 1800s. The initial
push for shop classes was NOT to teach kids the skills they'd need
for jobs in industry. It was to "build an appreciation" for
"industriousness," and to provide "cultural industrial education" as
part of a broad curriculum. In other words, it
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There is little support in most communities to fund industrial arts
education, except in the vo-tech specialty schools. There is
*tremendous* pressure for kids to score higher on national math and
English tests. And that's why we're where we are today.

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Ed Huntress

likewise, they could also be exposing kids, boys in particular, to
fine arts (painting, sculpture, music, etc.). *i'd imagine that also
used to be part of a classical education. *now there's too much
pressure to *not* teach kids about the arts. *i think that's a damn
shame.
oh, and i took all the shop classes (except printing) and won the
"industrial arts award" when i graduated high school.

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http://www.answers.com/topic/vocatio...on-act-of-1917
A Review of Federal Vocational-Education Legislation 1862-1963
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1475196

I finish my Apprenticeship as a machinist in the fifties. In 1972
after working more than 15 years in the trade, Philadelphia was
opening three dedicate Vocational plants. Test was given for all
craftspeople needed.
The Vocational legislation required that to teach Voc-Ed, 15 years in
a trade is required We would be hired to teach at the level of pay
that our years of work experience brought to the teaching position. We
receive a temporary certification with the promise that we would
enroll in the certifying college and complete the required courses in
10 years.
The industrial Art teachers and the unions hated this and use many
methods to get their members into the positions.
One of the classes that I took, an introduction to Voc-Ed, it was said
that prior to World War one, most of the craftsmen was born in Europe.
WW1 stop the flow and the Legislators felt that the way to train US
craftsmen was to use experience craftsperson.
The Union got their way and I was on the list as a sub for a few years
and was promoted on my night job and didn't follow through.
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